Hi Charles

Thanks for your input - it is for a vba procedure:

I've got a loop through all the shapes in a document looking for text boxes where the text is overflowing, then shrinking it to fit.

It works well enough but is too slow on larger documents (1000+ pages), so I was looking at ways to speed it up - if I could restict the loop to only look at text boxes I thought would overflow instead of all of them, I thought it might speed it up a bit.

I thought if I could name the boxes it would be a good way of telling word only to look at the ones I wanted.

Ultimately I'm not sure this will help much anyway in terms of speed, and I may have to give this up and invest in some VDP software - like Printshop Mail.

If only Word had a good way to shrink text to fit for mail-merging, without having to resort to my clumsy vba efforts (or making it all narrow and unreadable)!


By the way, I renamed the boxes via the Selection Pane in the Page Layout menu - it lists the object names, so you can just double-click them and rename.