OLE Document Limits

[TateJ]

I have a WORD doc I want to embed in my drawing. It's three colums wide & sized to just about fill an 11x17 sheet. But I loose half the right column when I insert it. There seems to be a size lmit here....?

Any advise?

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[ctopher]

Dbl-click on it then resize the handles?

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[TateJ]

It's the content of the document that gets cut off...
Resizing it won;t help.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

It does if you do as ctopher suggests.

Double-click on the embedded document so that it opens an editting window, then resize that window and the content will be seen.

 

[TateJ]

I tried it... although it gives me a few more options... still won't show all the document.

I can't give you my document to play with (confidential stuff). But create yourself a 1200 word document. Set up your page custom size to 8.5 & 16 (landscape). Format to 3 or 4 columns. Then see if you can get it to work in a B size drawing.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

I did already before I posted (11" x 17" document in landscape with 3 columns) and it worked just fine for me.

 

[TateJ]

It must be something silly then... I'm just not seeing it.

I had to copy/paste 3 seperate segments of my document to work-around this for now.

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[ctopher]

You have to dbl-click inside the Word doc to make it editable/active ... then drag the black dots in the corners to resize to your liking. It works the same for Excel docs.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[TateJ]

That's what I tried...

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[ctopher]

Do you have it linked to the doc?

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[fcsuper]

tatj,

I used to encounter that problem with Excel insertions on a drawing. Which version of SW are you using (not that it makes a difference)?

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA

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