Hello



I have designed an object using shapes and text boxes which I have grouped.
I have locked aspect ratio and need to resize (reduce the size of) the full object. When i do this, the font size remains the same as the original creation and therefore all wording gets cropped off. Is there a way for the font size to become smaller as you decrease the size?

I have tried copying and pasting the full object as a "Picture (Enhanced Metafile)" and then resizing but it doesn't look great as the font I presume gets converted to vectors

Any advice would be fantastic.

Thanks

IIRC, once you establish a font size it will remain the same...regardless of how you group then reduce your graphic. What you may want to do is to group the shapes, then insert the text at the appropriate font size and re-group it all together.

On another note, you may want to use other software (PowerPoint, Visio, et al) to create your graphic to your specifications, then import the file into your Word file.

Hope this helps...

Thanks JimP

I guessed as much, but was hoping.
Major deadline and way too many text boxes and shapes per diagram x 14 diagrams.
Will tell the client tough luck.

Jill, my comments were based on my experience using graphic/drawing software (not Word). Other posters who see this may offer other opinions to provide a solution that I may not know of.

Thank you.

Logically I don't think there is a simple solution, let's wait and see if someone else has any other ideas.

Unless you convert the text to a graphic (e.g. "Picture (Enhanced Metafile)" - as you've tried), it won't re-scale when you re-scale the group. Are you sure, though, that you used the "Picture (Enhanced Metafile)" paste option? That should result in an image that's indistinguishable from the original text when printed, even though it might not look quite so well-defined on screen.

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