Disabling Drawing Automatic Resizing To Fit Text

[Rajkumar Sakthibalan]

Hi,

Can anybody help me how shall i stop the shapes from being defaulted to
'Resize Shape To Fit Text' option. All shapes get's that set as default. And
everytime i draw a shape, I have to manually set "Do not Autofit". You can
imagine my situation if I have to make a drawing with lots of shapes!

This was not problem with Powerpoint 2003 as it didn't do that.

Thanks,
Raj
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[John Wilson]

Set a shape with do not autofit selected
Right Click > Set as default shape
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[Rajkumar Sakthibalan]

Thanks a lot John :)
It worked.

One issue still. The solution worked only for that slide set.
I closed and re-opened powerpoint. and created a new powerpoint presentation.
I had to do that again for that presentation.
So I edited my default template and added the shape as default there and
saved it.
Now it works for me.

Is there any other way you can to set that as a default for the software as
such irrespective of the templates?

Thanks again for your time.
Raj

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it is the music that accounts for a soulful experience. not the instrument.

[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <6E687BE0-B44F-4BD3...@microsoft.com>, Rajkumar

Sakthibalan wrote:
> Thanks a lot John :)
> It worked.
>
> One issue still. The solution worked only for that slide set.
> I closed and re-opened powerpoint. and created a new powerpoint presentation.
> I had to do that again for that presentation.
> So I edited my default template and added the shape as default there and
> saved it.
> Now it works for me.
>
> Is there any other way you can to set that as a default for the software as
> such irrespective of the templates?

I don't believe so; and in a way that's a good thing because it allows
different sets of defaults for different templates.

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[Schultz@discussions.microsoft.com Dennis Schultz]

All good advice to work around a default setting that PPT decided to change
in version 2007. However, I still have one scenario that I haven't been able
to resolve yet.

I have complex slides I want to reuse in multiple presentations. When I
copy a slide from one deck to another, all the shapes get resized. This is
driving me insane! I spend hours and hours selecting all the munged shapes,
unchecking "Resize to fit text", then adjusting the size. Some slides have
dozens of overlapping shapes making this a very long and tedious task.

Thanks for any advice,

Dennis

[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <8447DC2E-2B08-4FFB...@microsoft.com>, Dennis Schultz
wrote:

Are you maybe copying between presentations with different page sizes?

One thing you can try either way is instead of copying slides, add a new slide
to the "target" presentation, then select all shapes from the "source" slide and
copy/paste the shapes to the new slide.

[Schultz@discussions.microsoft.com Dennis Schultz]

No, presentations are the same page size.

Your suggestion of copy/paste the shapes into a blank slide does preserve
the shape sizes. It is still more of a painful process than it should be,
but this definitely helps. Thanks!

[raj...@gmail.com]

Dear John,
looks like I haven't acknowledged this post. Apologies for being a little over 4yrs late ;) better late than never.

thank you. this worked. and I am of course at it now :)