Issue 7569 - Wordwrapping text in shapes
Summary: Wordwrapping text in shapes
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Draw
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P4 Trivial with 3 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: ms_interoperability, rfe_eval_ok
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Reported: 2002-09-07 14:52 UTC by aaime
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description aaime 2002-09-07 14:52:03 UTC 
The text added in a shape should wordwrap if  
unable to fit in a single line, as happens in 
SmartDraw (try it, it's shareware) or Powerpoint 
(when you enable it). Other software also modify 
the side of the text only when all the shape is 
full of text (that is, first the wordwrap, then 
change the size)
Comment 1 wolframgarten 2002-11-06 08:42:15 UTC 
Reassigned to Falko.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2003-04-16 15:37:50 UTC 
Set to "NEW"
Comment 3 falko.tesch 2003-09-29 13:46:49 UTC 
Add the ability to line break and hyphenate text within (Drawing) objects.
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-09-29 13:47:22 UTC 
started
Comment 5 bettina.haberer 2004-04-08 18:30:02 UTC 
The edit engine is no keyfeature for the Q. This issue is considered for later.
Comment 6 aaime 2005-03-06 09:20:25 UTC 
Any progress on this? This is a basic feature that Powepoint has had for ages (I
can't remember a version of Powerpoint that does not have this)...
Comment 7 zhangweiwu 2009-01-28 06:47:16 UTC 
If I understood it well this is possible by setting text property for the shape,
what you really wanted to make this setting default to a more reasonable way
without user having to set the property, right?
Comment 8 aaime74 2009-01-28 08:07:11 UTC 
No, the issue is more that for the most common shapes, that is, square and
ellipse, the proper behaviour (flow words inside the shape, or something like
that, I have a italian UI) is simply not available, and there seem to be no
substitute for it.
I don't want the words to change to fill the shape, I just want them to word wrap.
I noticed now that among the shapes there is a rectangle and an ellipse that do
behave properly (never noticed this before), but the two on the toolbar do not,
this is very confusing.
Comment 9 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:42:23 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".