XL98: Text Is Truncated in a Text Box with Rounded Corners (179328)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q179328
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, when you view a text box in a
worksheet, text in the text box may become misaligned or truncated.
CAUSE
This behavior may occur when the following conditions are true:
- The text box has rounded corners.
-and-
- You use a large (greater than 18) point size for some of the text in the
text box.
Note that the larger the point size you use, the more pronounced the
problem becomes.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, do either of the following:
- Reduce the point size of text in the text box.
Reducing the point size prevents text from appearing truncated. Note
that reducing the point size does not correct the problem if the text
box is simply too small to display all of the text.
-or-
- Resize the text box to a shape that can display all of the text.
STATUS
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.
MORE INFORMATION
In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, when you apply rounded corners to a
text box, the radius that defines the corners is the same in all text boxes
regardless of the size of the text box.
In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, the radius that defines rounded
corners in a text box varies with the size of the text box. So, the radius
of the corners of a text box of width "x" and height "y" may be larger in
Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition than it is in earlier versions of
Microsoft Excel.
This difference in behavior may cause problems when the text box contains
text that is formatted in a large point size. For example, text at the top
of the text box may shift down and to the right, which is away from the
larger rounded upper-left corner of the text box. This behavior may cause
text in the lower-right side of the text box to become truncated.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/28/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbualink97 KB179328 |
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