Microsoft KB Archive/60472

Word: Text Is Displaced When Pasted into SuperPaint

PSS ID Number: Q60472 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

If a graphic created in SuperPaint version 2.00 is transferred into Word through the Clipboard and then transferred back into SuperPaint, the text portion of the graphic will be displaced.

To prevent this from happening, use a fill pattern other than transparent for the text box when creating text in the draw layer of SuperPaint. SuperPaint automatically defaults to transparent when text is typed.

To change the fill pattern, do the following:

  Select the text box with the pointer.   Select a fill pattern other than transparent (the default) and click the area fill box just below the Edit and Options menus. The text box will fill with the selected fill pattern. 

= MORE INFORMATION =

This problem occurs only under very specific conditions. The graphic that contains the text must be created in the draw portion of SuperPaint 2.00. Select All must be chosen from the Edit menu, and the graphic must be copied and pasted into Word 4.00. In Word, it must then be selected, copied, and pasted into SuperPaint. When it is pasted in SuperPaint, the text will be displaced (usually down and to the right) from its original position.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbinterop kbgraphic KBSubCategory: Additional reference words: macword macword5 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.