Microsoft KB Archive/922961

= The text in a WordArt drawing is not resized when you resize the borders in Excel 2007 or in PowerPoint 2007 =

Article ID: 922961

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

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SYMPTOMS
When you insert a WordArt drawing into a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 worksheet or into a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation, the text within the borders of the WordArt drawing is not resized when you resize the borders.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because WordArt in Excel 2007 and in PowerPoint 2007 uses a new graphics engine to create the drawings. This new technology lets you apply shape formatting to text without converting that text to a graphic. This lets you treat the text in a WordArt drawing as regular text so that, for example, you can check the spelling of text to which WordArt formatting was applied.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, apply a transform effect to the WordArt drawing. This causes the text to resize to the edges of the WordArt borders. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Drawing tools.
 * 2) In the WordArt Styles group, click Text Effects, and then click Transform.
 * 3) Click the transform that you want to apply to the WordArt drawing.

Additional query words: PPT2007 PowerPoint2007 XL2007 Excel2007 Office2007 OFF2007 Office 2007



Keywords: kbinfo kbtshoot kbformat kbprb kbgraphic kbexpertisebeginner KB922961

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