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Hear about OfficeArt?

You've probably noticed that we've dropped down a bit in frequency of posts. This is easily explained, we're very busy right now working to ship the best version of Office ever!  We will step up the number of posts again, hopefully very soon!  There's still a lot to write about. 

However, there was time recently to take a phone call.

Shawn Murray  interviewed Howard Cooperstein, OfficeArt program manager and contributor to this blog, for a podcast on Office Art history and the new themes engine in Office 2007.  This was just posted to his blog at  The IW Center.   The direct link to the podcast is here.

Howard is a particularly enthusiastic and deep source for information about OfficeArt and its history.

Hope you enjoy the podcast.  Let us know what you think; we've been thinking about recording some of these ourselves. 

 

Ric Bretschneider - 8/21/2006

Posted: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:53 AM by Mark Jaremko

Comments

Christian said:

I don't like that (at least in Office 2003) if I select a bunch of things like lines, rectangles and textboxes and then resize them, that the font-sizes are not scaled and the text gets larger relatively to the drawing which completely destroys it
# August 22, 2006 3:02 AM

Mark Jaremko said:

Yes, I can understand the desire to scale text along with a selection of shapes.  On the other hand, if you have a text rich document, such as a PowerPoint presentation, then constantly scaling text can be a real detriment when you want to keep all of the text in the presentation consistent but just need to tweak the sizes of a few textboxes.  Given the two competing scenarios, we opted to keep the text consistent.  But I agree, there are times that you need it both ways.
# August 22, 2006 3:13 AM

Christian said:

Yes, normally scaling Textboxes shouldn't change the font size. But it would be great if I was able to combine several elements (cliparts, textboxes, autoforms) and maybe group them together and have some object that could then be scaled like if it was a PNG-picture or embedded object.

At the moment my solution is to not use Office drawing tools, but embedded Visio diagrams.
# August 22, 2006 8:14 AM

Mike Fried's Blog said:

Topics for the next few months - Mostly OfficeArt and PowerPoint details.
# August 23, 2006 3:10 PM
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