Strange shape behaviour

Started by Paul Herber, March 30, 2015, 01:35:25 PM

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Paul Herber

Hi all, on another form (one of the Microsoft ones) a user has a document with four shapes that cannot be accessed.
I've attached the document here. If you open the Drawing Explorer window on not one of the shapes is the right-click menu available.
In the grouped shapes the contents of the group can be edited but that is all.
I'm puzzled.
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AndyW

Document is protected.

If you open the drawing explorer, right click on the VSD entry and choose Protect Document, you will find shapes is selected.
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Paul Herber

It can't be just that though. There were many more shapes on the document that could be deleted, and if another shape is added it isn't protected in the same way.
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Paul Herber

Ah, it's the combination of Shape -> Lock Select and Protect Document -> Shapes.
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