Re: Rotate several elements

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ronh wrote:
I'm using a template regularly to place pictures and overlaid text boxes on an A3 document, which will be folded to create an A4
leaflet. The pictures and text on the front page is therefore 180
degrees rotated so that it looks correct when folded - no problem so
far.

Is this a tent card style leaflet? Otherwise, I can't see why you need
to rotate the objects at all...

I would love a macro which would enable me to do this in one step (
rotate all elements and save the file as a pdf) I don't know much about the macro editor in Publisher and I cannot find the command which enables me to group elements.

You might want to come over to the microsoft.public.publisher.programming group, where discussions about programming in Publisher are on-topic.

The Group method is a member of the ShapeRange object, so would be accessed by:
[A page object].Shapes.Range.Group

Note that simply grouping and rotating will not preserve your layout properly - the distances from the top and left will become the distances from the bottom and right respectively. You can either do the math to work out what the new top and left should be, or (if no objects spill off the edge of the page) create a rectangle the size of the page, group everything to it, rotate the group, ungroup, and delete the rectangle.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
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