Drawing Canvas - Max number of shapes/text boxes?

[Barb R.]

Is there a maximum number of shapes or text boxes that can be in a drawing
canvas? I have a drawing canvas and when I select Multiple Objects and
select them all, there are a handful of objects that are not selected. Why
is this and what do I need to do to include those objects in the drawing
canvas?

Thanks in advance,

Barb Reinhardt

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Barb,

Are there specific types of items it's missing,
or is the first or last ones entered or ???

There isn't a preset limit on what a drawing canvas
contains, but it's a somewhat complex structure and
it's possible that the file has become damaged.

If you save a copy of the document as a web page,
close Word and Outlook, restart it and then open that page and
save is as a .DOC file does it behave any better.

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Is there a maximum number of shapes or text boxes that can be in a drawing
canvas? I have a drawing canvas and when I select Multiple Objects and
select them all, there are a handful of objects that are not selected. Why
is this and what do I need to do to include those objects in the drawing
canvas?

Thanks in advance,

Barb Reinhardt>>
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[Barb R.]

Well, let's just say that I inherited these documents. There is a "Master
Document" (yes, I know) and 10-15 subdocuments. Within each subdocument
there are generally 3 sections with headers and footers. In one section,
there is usually a "Drawing Canvas" with lots of objects. In addition,
"Versions" are enabled in each subdocument. (I know about their propensity
to corrupt a document, too) Unfortunately, I don't have the authority to
change any of these things.

In the document I've been editing, I did have to "Open and Repair" it not
long ago.

Does that answer your question?

Regards,
Barb Reinhardt

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Barb,

Well, it sounds like you're about on par with a Salmon
trying to swim upstream on a dry creek bed.

If you have repaired the document (assuming you're working
with the subdocuments here) then you may be able to paste the
drawing canvas to a new document save that, delete it from
the original, save that under a new file name and then
close itand then after reopening use either Insert=>Document
or paste from the 'new document' after making your changes
to the Drawing canvas there if saving as a web page doesn't
help at all. Unfortunately with the versions/master-sub/
and multiple sections adding a lot of objects to 'manage'
for Word can raise the possibilities for corruption.
I do hope that at least 'allow fast saves' is turned off
in Tools=>Options=>Save?

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Well, let's just say that I inherited these documents. There is a "Master
Document" (yes, I know) and 10-15 subdocuments. Within each subdocument
there are generally 3 sections with headers and footers. In one section,
there is usually a "Drawing Canvas" with lots of objects. In addition,
"Versions" are enabled in each subdocument. (I know about their propensity
to corrupt a document, too) Unfortunately, I don't have the authority to
change any of these things.

In the document I've been editing, I did have to "Open and Repair" it not
long ago.

Does that answer your question?

Regards,
Barb Reinhardt >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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[Barb R.]

I already ensured that "Allow Fast Saves" was turned off. Can you suggest a
better way to do this than the mess we have?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Barb,

Preparing a chart or graphic outside of Word or at least
outside of the complex documents and inserting
or pasting it as a picture may be one possibility for the
instant issue.

Did you try doing the save as web page?

You also didn't answer the previous questions on if there is
any pattern to what is missed by the Select Multiple Objects
tool when you're working in a drawing canvas.

You may want to also post this in the Word long documents
(document management) newsgroup (link below) and include
information on what choices you may be able to control
(i.e. you mentioned that you are locked into master documents
and Word versioning).


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I already ensured that "Allow Fast Saves" was turned off. Can you suggest a
better way to do this than the mess we have? >>
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