Is there a way to ancor, or lock down a OLE Object? Like Excel Worksheet?

I created a titleblock with an excel worksheet as the revision block.
I cant figure out a way to lock the corner of the block to the corner
of my title block. Without this, everytime you add a new revision,
you have to right-click the revision block, choose "Resize" (which
resizes to approriate size), then you have to zoom in to the corner of
the titleblock and the revision block and line them up.

Does anyone know a better way to do this?

Any suggestions on new revision blocks would be great, thanks

 

What version are you running? I saw a demo of the new table editor in 2004.
It seems to be quite efficient and easy to use (SW now emulates Excel
functions for formatting and such while linking the SW data) and it can be
anchored to a given location on the title block.

Keith

 

Hi there - The short ansewer is that they will not lock to a given
point.

Unfortunately upon edit, SW does not do an automatic resize, which you
have to do manually. Once edited, the object is squished or expanded
into the original boundaries.

A manual resize is a bit annoying, but it still makes the excel
revision sheet worth having (at least for me).

(But) The 2004 tables look promising and I have started to use them,
especially when I will make .DWGs for someone, since the object never
translates nicely out to DWG (moves around, is huge, etc.) while the
table comes in a reasonably well formatted text.

Regards-

SMA