You have to select the text and the guide circle when copying. Without the guide circle, the text doesn’t know where to go, and they probably jump to the lower-left corner of your page.

http://www.visguy.com/2007/10/18/circular-text-generator-version-1/

When you create the text, there is a circular guide that is created with the text. You don’t see it in the images above, but you can see them in the v1 article.

When you copy the text, make sure you copy the “guide circle” with it. Not only do you move the text by moving the circle, it also gives you control over other aspects of the text via Shape Data (Custom Property) fields. These are discussed in both articles.

Please tell me what I’m doing wrong!

Thanks

The versions here should work just fine in Visio 2010.

May be you have already created a version for Visio 2010?

That would be great!

The spaces have always worked for me, and I don’t think they evaluate to zero. But I don’t think I’ve used it on anything older than Visio 2003.

I do remember some change in the way text was calculated between 2002 and 2003–I did a huge conversion project for thousands of documents, but I can’t recall if this is a related problem.

Can you select an existing letter in your circle, then type ” ” and see if the shape collapses?

Greetings from Edinburgh. Great tool.

Spaces between words don’t seem to get included properly in Visio 2002. As you add each character in turn, does a space resolve to zero width or something?

Rgds

David

Not sure what you mean. Even if the file was read-only, you would still be able to manipulate objects, just not save them, no?

Just generate some circular text, then copy it into another drawing, and don’t worry about saving.

And the spacing adjustments are accomplished by selecting the guide-shape, then adjusting shape data fields (custom properties). Again, unrelated to “read-only”.