Microsoft KB Archive/68701

Copied Text Stretches Beyond Edge of Slide PSS ID Number: Q68701 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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Summary:

When you cut a section of text from a word processing box on one slide and paste it onto a new slide, it may lose its margins and paragraph formatting, and stretch out beyond the edges of the slide. If you then select this text and attempt to resize it, you will not be able to resize it by dragging inward on the corners as you normally can with word processing objects.

If text is copied correctly, this problem can be avoided. To copy a selection of text from a word processing box on one slide onto another slide and have it retain its original formatting, do the following:


 * 1) Select the section of text and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
 * 2) Open the destination slide.
 * 3) Using the Word Processing tool, draw a word processing box. The size of the box you draw will control the left and right margins of the paragraph you paste. A flashing cursor will appear in the upper left hand corner of the box. That is the text insertion point. Choose Paste from the Edit menu.

Note: Text copied from a word processing box will also retain its paragraph formatting if the word processing box itself is selected before choosing Copy from the Edit menu. This will simply duplicate the entire word processing object.

More Information:

When selected text is pasted onto a slide, it behaves differently, depending on what is selected when it is pasted.

Note the following:

  When New Slide is chosen from the Edit menu, the new slide comes up with the title automatically selected. If you choose Paste, the text will be pasted onto the new slide in place of the original title. If the text consists of more than a few words, it will stretch beyond the edges of the slide. Attempting to delete it will give the error message: STOP: Sorry, the title cannot be cut or cleared   If no object on the new slide is selected, the text will be pasted as label text. If the text consists of more than a few words, it will stretch beyond the edges of the slide.   If a drawn object, such as a circle or square, is selected, the text will become fixed to and part of the object. 

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.