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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the
Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Anthony,
I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message oups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work.
The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes, still investigating. If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that would be great. (And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.) Thanks, Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message oups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Anthony,
One way, in a cell out of the way somewhere, insert the desired text in the correct font, size, formatting etc. Then AutoSize the column. Read the column width. You may have to use some scaling factor to convert to the units/differences between the worksheet cell and a Text Frame, but at least it should be constant. Otherwise, use a fixed width font and no formatting and just multiply by the number of characters, if this is practical for you. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work. The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes, still investigating. If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that would be great. (And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.) Thanks, Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message oups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Hmm, clever idea. And I just checked that it still works in XL07. But
what a hack! And performance is passable -- about 5 ms per AutoFit. I am also comming across bugs in .characters() functions. Nasty, unrepeatable corrupting ones. I suspect that they have been lurking since XL95, (and I have ugly work arounds) but are just corrumpting memory that happens to be more important now. Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, One way, in a cell out of the way somewhere, insert the desired text in the correct font, size, formatting etc. Then AutoSize the column. Read the column width. You may have to use some scaling factor to convert to the units/differences between the worksheet cell and a Text Frame, but at least it should be constant. Otherwise, use a fixed width font and no formatting and just multiply by the number of characters, if this is practical for you. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work. The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes, still investigating. If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that would be great. (And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.) Thanks, Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message egroups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Anthony,
I have no pressing need for Office2007. I'm waiting for an SP or 2 before <upgrading. I'll let you folks figure out the difficult bits before I jump aboard <g. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Hmm, clever idea. And I just checked that it still works in XL07. But what a hack! And performance is passable -- about 5 ms per AutoFit. I am also comming across bugs in .characters() functions. Nasty, unrepeatable corrupting ones. I suspect that they have been lurking since XL95, (and I have ugly work arounds) but are just corrumpting memory that happens to be more important now. Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, One way, in a cell out of the way somewhere, insert the desired text in the correct font, size, formatting etc. Then AutoSize the column. Read the column width. You may have to use some scaling factor to convert to the units/differences between the worksheet cell and a Text Frame, but at least it should be constant. Otherwise, use a fixed width font and no formatting and just multiply by the number of characters, if this is practical for you. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work. The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes, still investigating. If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that would be great. (And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.) Thanks, Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message egroups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Anthony,
I have no pressing need for Office2007. I'm waiting for an SP or 2 before <upgrading. Very wise. But I am writing an add-in for others so do not have that luxury. To be fair, the released version is much beter than the final "Beta 2 Technical Refresh". They addressed a number of bugs that I had reported (no idea whether my bug lists were ever read or they were working from their own lists). I have hacked Autosize by just second guessing text widths in plain code, taking account of narrower characters etc. Rough but adequate. I'm a little worried that in SP1 or 2 they will "fix" Autosize to work the way it used to work, and break my code again! (I'd say that at least 90% of my development time is working around quirks like these plus weird optimizations that prove necessary.) One note is that the text boxes in Comments do AutoSize the traditional way, height and width. Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I have no pressing need for Office2007. I'm waiting for an SP or 2 before <upgrading. I'll let you folks figure out the difficult bits before I jump aboard <g. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Hmm, clever idea. And I just checked that it still works in XL07. But what a hack! And performance is passable -- about 5 ms per AutoFit. I am also comming across bugs in .characters() functions. Nasty, unrepeatable corrupting ones. I suspect that they have been lurking since XL95, (and I have ugly work arounds) but are just corrumpting memory that happens to be more important now. Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, One way, in a cell out of the way somewhere, insert the desired text in the correct font, size, formatting etc. Then AutoSize the column. Read the column width. You may have to use some scaling factor to convert to the units/differences between the worksheet cell and a Text Frame, but at least it should be constant. Otherwise, use a fixed width font and no formatting and just multiply by the number of characters, if this is practical for you. NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message ... Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work. The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes, still investigating. If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that would be great. (And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.) Thanks, Anthony NickHK wrote: Anthony, I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size if you toggle the AutoSize property: With <YourTextFrame .Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over several" & Chr(10) & "lines" .AutoSize=false .AutoSize=true End with NickHK "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message glegroups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Greetings Anthony. One thought: Write the text out to a column and auto
size the column. This should give you width to use in the text box. Bob Flanagan Macro Systems http://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel "Anthony Berglas" wrote in message oups.com... XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider. This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same goes for comments etc. Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of fonted strings is very error prone.) Regards, Anthony |
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Autosize bug in Excel 2007 shape textframes
Anthony Berglas wrote: XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the Width. This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both. I have to admit, this statement leaves me stumped. I have never been able to get the autosize feature to work properly in Excel <= 2003. Whenever I use the autosize feature in the Format Shape window, it automatically sizes the width, but all the text is in a single line. Was there another method that I have been missing out on? To get autosizing to work in my add-in, I spent many hours writing my own algorithm. If there's an easier way, I'm going to be really ticked at myself. In fact, I though the TextFrame2 Autosize method in 2007 was a Godsend. Nick Hebb BreezeTree Software http://www.,breezetree.com |
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