Free rotate is not free

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Frizzy - 08 Aug 2006 15:48 GMT

The jpeg image seems to be snapping to something - gird is turned off and I
am not pressing a shift key. How do I rotate the picture ever so slightly?

Reply to this Message

John Wilson - 08 Aug 2006 16:04 GMT

Have you unticked "snap to grid" and "snap to other objects"?

Signature

Did that answer the question / help?
_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

> The jpeg image seems to be snapping to something - gird is turned off and I
> am not pressing a shift key. How do I rotate the picture ever so slightly?

Reply to this Message

David M. Marcovitz - 08 Aug 2006 16:06 GMT

Try selecting the picture, going to the format menu and choosing Picture.
Then click on the Size tab and enter a number of degrees into the rotation
box. It appears to me that you are stuck with whole number degrees of
rotation. That is, you can't rotate .5 or 1.5 degrees, but you can rotate 1
or 2 degrees.
--David

Signature

David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

> The jpeg image seems to be snapping to something - gird is turned off
> and I am not pressing a shift key. How do I rotate the picture ever so
> slightly?

Reply to this Message

Steve Rindsberg - 08 Aug 2006 18:57 GMT

> Try selecting the picture, going to the format menu and choosing Picture.
> Then click on the Size tab and enter a number of degrees into the rotation
> box. It appears to me that you are stuck with whole number degrees of
> rotation. That is, you can't rotate .5 or 1.5 degrees, but you can rotate 1
> or 2 degrees.

Actually, you can, but only via VBA.

Sub TipMeOverVeryVeryVerySlowly()

With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)
.Rotation = .Rotation + .1
MsgBox "I'm now " & cstr(.Rotation) & " degrees off kilter."
End With

End Sub

-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

Reply to this Message