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[Waterbug]

I put frames around all my texts on each slide...and now I decided I don't want frames. But when I Select All of the text in the box, go to More Settings, go to Frame, and try to uncheck Rounded Rectangle and check None, it won't let me do that; it keeps bouncing back to Rounded Rectangle. However, it WILL let me do that--if I first check Gradient under Fill.  *Then* it allows me to check None--but...the frames don't go away. They stay.

How do I get the frames to go away without having to re-type all my text boxes?

Windows Vista.

[grandpabruce]

I put frames around all my texts on each slide...and now I decided I don't want frames. But when I Select All of the text in the box, go to More Settings, go to Frame, and try to uncheck Rounded Rectangle and check None, it won't let me do that; it keeps bouncing back to Rounded Rectangle. However, it WILL let me do that--if I first check Gradient under Fill.  *Then* it allows me to check None--but...the frames don't go away. They stay.

How do I get the frames to go away without having to re-type all my text boxes?

Windows Vista.

Click on the text to highlight it, in the Preview screen.  To the left, click on Show Settings, click on the 3rd icon from the left, then click on None.  I did this in VideoWave.

Edited by grandpabruce, 26 February 2008 - 02:36 PM.

[ml]

Click on the text to highlight it, in the Preview screen. To the left, click on Show Settings, click on the 3rd icon from the left, then click on None. I did this in VideoWave.

Did you apply a gradient first? I can't get the stupid box to disappear.

*edit*

Nevermind, you're right.   The trick is to double click on the text box to make certain that ALL the text and spaces are highlighted.

Edited by ml, 26 February 2008 - 02:50 PM.

[grandpabruce]

Did you apply a gradient first?   I can't get the stupid box to disappear.  

I did apply a gradient, as a test.  I had no problem getting rid of it.  Maybe it is a Vista thing.  I am using XP.

[Waterbug]

Click on the text to highlight it, in the Preview screen.  To the left, click on Show Settings, click on the 3rd icon from the left, then click on None.  I did this in VideoWave.

Right, I'm in Videowave.

And that's *exactly* what I'm doing--and it's not working.  (That's the exact same menu as you get from clicking on Settings in the Edit window, BTW, which is what I was talking about in the OP. That "third icon from the left" is "Frame", which is what I was referring to in the OP.)

Anyway, following your instructions is the exact same thing I'd already been trying, and it's not working.  The frame will not go away. It refuses to uncheck "Rounded Rectangle".

Any other suggestions?

[myguggi]

I did apply a gradient, as a test.  I had no problem getting rid of it.  Maybe it is a Vista thing.  I am using XP.

Also have no problem removing frame (using both various combos such as gradient or fill). Like Bruce I am also using XP.

[Waterbug]

The trick is to double click on the text box to make certain that ALL the text and spaces are highlighted.

Um, no, it isn't. I've got all the text highlighted with "Select All", and it still won't uncheck Rounded Rectangle, and the frame won't go away.

And even if I click on Gradient, it will allow me to uncheck Rounded Rectangle, and check None--but the frame remains.

[ml]

Any other suggestions?

I'm using Vista.

Try clicking on that text box first to highlight all the text. For some reason, highlighting manually didn't work for me and I was having the same trouble you were.

Click on the text box to highlight the text, THEN open the Settings. Then you should be able to click on 'None' and when you close the settings box it should be gone.

Edited by ml, 26 February 2008 - 02:57 PM.

[Waterbug]

I did apply a gradient, as a test.  I had no problem getting rid of it.  Maybe it is a Vista thing.  I am using XP.

It better not be a "Vista thing"--I spent 80 bucks on this puppy, and it says "Windows Vista" right on the case. For 80 bucks, I expect software to work.

[Waterbug]

K, I got it figured out: it's a two-line text in each slide, so each line counts as a frame. So it wants me, not to Select All, but rather to select each line of text and click on None for that line only.

You say this thing ain't WordPad or PrintArtist, eh?

Thanks, all, for the suggestions.

[ml]

K, I got it figured out: it's a two-line text in each slide, so each line counts as a frame. So it wants me, not to Select All, but rather to select each line of text and click on None for that line only.

You say this thing ain't WordPad or PrintArtist, eh?

Thanks, all, for the suggestions.

Thanks for sharing the solution!  

I did notice that you can add frames to each line in the text box, but didn't realize that's what was happening in your case.

[grandpabruce]

[snip}  

I did notice that you can add frames to each line in the text box, but didn't realize that's what was happening in your case.

That's because it was never mentioned before the last post.    

[myguggi]

K, I got it figured out: it's a two-line text in each slide, so each line counts as a frame. So it wants me, not to Select All, but rather to select each line of text and click on None for that line only.

You say this thing ain't WordPad or PrintArtist, eh?

Thanks, all, for the suggestions.

Its too bad that you didn't mention that you has a multi-line text box

....but I can remove the frame for all lines using None just one time by first using "Select All". The select option does jump back to "rounded rectangle" though but the frames are gone

Edited by myguggi, 26 February 2008 - 03:15 PM.

[Waterbug]

That's because it was never mentioned before the last post.    

...that's because I didn't know it was relevant.  

In WordPad, Word, Creat-A-Card, PrintArtist, Printmaster, and really all other software that has a text-editing function that I can think of, "select all" means that after you've highlighted a portion of text, whatever action you then click on will affect everything that's highlighted. But highlighting all the text on my slide didn't result in the action of "change frame" on all the text that was highlighted--EMC10 seems to consider that each individual line of text has its own frame.

And how was I supposed to know that? It's not in the tutorial. It's not in the index under "frame" or "text" or any combination of those words.

[grandpabruce]

...that's because I didn't know it was relevant.  

In WordPad, Word, Creat-A-Card, PrintArtist, Printmaster, and really all other software that has a text-editing function that I can think of, "select all" means that after you've highlighted a portion of text, whatever action you then click on will affect everything that's highlighted. But highlighting all the text on my slide didn't result in the action of "change frame" on all the text that was highlighted--EMC10 seems to consider that each individual line of text has its own frame.

And how was I supposed to know that? It's not in the tutorial. It's not in the index under "frame" or "text" or any combination of those words.

Good grief.      How many of those programs that you listed are video editing programs?

You learn by playing around with the program and reading threads in these forums.

Edited by grandpabruce, 26 February 2008 - 04:27 PM.

[myguggi]

...that's because I didn't know it was relevant.  

In WordPad, Word, Creat-A-Card, PrintArtist, Printmaster, and really all other software that has a text-editing function that I can think of, "select all" means that after you've highlighted a portion of text, whatever action you then click on will affect everything that's highlighted. But highlighting all the text on my slide didn't result in the action of "change frame" on all the text that was highlighted--EMC10 seems to consider that each individual line of text has its own frame.

And how was I supposed to know that? It's not in the tutorial. It's not in the index under "frame" or "text" or any combination of those words.

When you use "Select All" you can add frames to all the lines at once and you can also remove all the frames from all the lines with one click on "None". If it doesn't work for you then you have some other problems such as perhaps Vista