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In earlier versions of Word, I could paste a graphic containing simple
figures (circles, lines, and so on) and then, by right-clicking, edit the
object. That is, it would convert the object to an MS Graphic Object and
allow things like group-ungroup, change line thickness and color, and so on.
I never liked much how it did this, however, so I usually did the work in
PowerPoint and pasted-special from there. (I do this many times a day,
nearly every day, with figures from a Geometry program for classroom
materials. It is necessary because the figures are much cleaner in
presentations and in print when they had been converted to graphic objects.)
I was hoping Office 2007 would make Word's approach consistent with
PowerPoints. Instead, however, it seems that it has simply removed the
ability to do any editing of such objects at all, unless the objects were
originally created in Word. In fact, if you create in Word (just as an
example, since I don't work this way) a rectangle and a line, you can group
them and then later ungroup, change fill colors, line colors, and so on, but
if you create the very same object in PowerPoint with the very same tools and
paste-special into Word in any format, including an MS Office Graphic Object,
none of those features are available. Is this just something not quite
working right in the beta? Or was the feature disabled (though "edit" still
appears in the right-click context menu)?
I had other related questions, but this is already too long.
figures (circles, lines, and so on) and then, by right-clicking, edit the
object. That is, it would convert the object to an MS Graphic Object and
allow things like group-ungroup, change line thickness and color, and so on.
I never liked much how it did this, however, so I usually did the work in
PowerPoint and pasted-special from there. (I do this many times a day,
nearly every day, with figures from a Geometry program for classroom
materials. It is necessary because the figures are much cleaner in
presentations and in print when they had been converted to graphic objects.)
I was hoping Office 2007 would make Word's approach consistent with
PowerPoints. Instead, however, it seems that it has simply removed the
ability to do any editing of such objects at all, unless the objects were
originally created in Word. In fact, if you create in Word (just as an
example, since I don't work this way) a rectangle and a line, you can group
them and then later ungroup, change fill colors, line colors, and so on, but
if you create the very same object in PowerPoint with the very same tools and
paste-special into Word in any format, including an MS Office Graphic Object,
none of those features are available. Is this just something not quite
working right in the beta? Or was the feature disabled (though "edit" still
appears in the right-click context menu)?
I had other related questions, but this is already too long.