Using the Drawing Canvas

RobertWA · #1 08-28-2020, 03:40 AM

Hi all,

I have two questions related to the use of the drawing canvas.

1. Is it possible to create a drawing canvas around items already in the page (i.e. similar to drawing a text box around an existing paragraph of text)? For example, I have a picture and its caption which I want to keep together when I move the picture. If I create the drawing canvas and then insert the picture and its caption then that works fine. But can I do it the other way, when I already have the picture and its caption in my document?

2. Since I want to use several drawing canvases which will have a border and a coloured fill, is it possible to make the border and the fill colour defaults, so that as soon as I insert a drawing canvas it comes pre-formatted as I want it, rather than have to change the border and fill colour each time?

Thanks

Robert

Guessed · #2 08-30-2020, 03:12 PM

1. As far as I know, you would need to select and cut the items and then paste them inside a new Drawing Canvas.
2. It is also not apparent whether you can set a default for new Canvas Items.

However you could use a macro to create a new drawing canvas with your preferred 'default' fill AND if you have selected shapes before running the macro, those shapes could be put inside the canvas by the same macro.

Code:

Sub AddInlineCanvas()
  Dim shpCanvas As Shape
  Set shpCanvas = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddCanvas(Left:=150, Top:=150, Width:=144, Height:=144)
  With shpCanvas
    .WrapFormat.Type = wdWrapInline
    .Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(220, 40, 0)
    If Selection.ShapeRange.Count > 0 Then
      Selection.Cut
      .Select
      Selection.Paste
    End If
  End With
End Sub

RobertWA · #3 08-30-2020, 10:45 PM

Thank you.

I'll try the macro.

Cheers

Charles Kenyon · #4 08-31-2020, 05:04 AM

It might be possible to select your canvas and save it as a building block. I have not tried this and am just speculating. (I seldom use a drawing canvas.)

RobertWA · #5 08-31-2020, 02:09 PM

Thanks.

Saving in the Quick Part gallery worked fine.

Charles Kenyon · #6 08-31-2020, 02:34 PM

Great. Thank you for confirming my guess. We both learned something!

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