Microsoft KB Archive/64975

Sized-To-Text Object Doesn’t Redraw with Cancelled Edit PSS ID Number: Q64975 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

If you initiate and then immediately cancel a text edit of a Sized-To-Text object, the object does not redraw or resize correctly until you force a redraw of the slide.

More Information:

In order to force PowerPoint for Windows to redraw the screen you simply go to the View menu and select the percentage view that currently has a check mark next to it. This will not change the percentage view that you are already using, but does force PowerPoint to redraw the screen which will resize the text box.

Reproduction Sequence

 * 1) Create a graphical object.
 * 2) From the Draw menu, choose Sized To Text.
 * 3) Press the F2 key to place the text insertion point in the object.
 * 4) Click outside the object to deselect it.

Even though no text was entered into the object, the object does not resize or redraw until you force a redraw of the slide.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint for Windows version 2.00. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.