Word paste text box behavior like power point

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Cliff Curry - 30 Sep 2005 21:43 GMT

In word, a copied text box is not pasted as a Microsoft drawing object. To
make this happen, one needs to choose "paste special" and then scroll to
"Microsoft drawing object", Then the box is pasted on top of the selected
text box. I would like to write my own paste macro that would behave
identical to the paste of Microsoft power point, which pastes text as a new
text box, displaced from the old one by a small distance. Can you help get
me started?

Thanks

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Jonathan West - 01 Oct 2005 12:46 GMT

Hi Cliff,

Get a suitable textbox onto the clipboard, and then simply record a macro
while you go through the steps of doing the paste special.

Then stop the recorder and take a look at the code.

Creating a macro with no programming experience using the recorder
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm

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> In word, a copied text box is not pasted as a Microsoft drawing object.
> To make this happen, one needs to choose "paste special" and then scroll
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