I shrunk my text significantly in a row of shapes and was hoping that the shapes would auto resize smaller to fit the shrunken text. On another post, a support team member said that lucid would recognize significant changes in text and reduce shape sizes automatically but not small changes. (See screen shot) - you can see the text size was reduced significantly yet not automatic shape resizing took place.
I asked chatGPT if there was a setting to make shapes auto resize smaller when reducing text size...
It said go to properties panel → text settings → (text fit, resize options, or text behaviour), however i could not find “text settings” anywhere in the properties panel.
I then provided a screen shot to ChatGPT and it said the following which opened a whole new can of worms.
ChatGPT
“You are NOT using Lucidchart’s standard editor”
You are in the Lucidspark-style editor inside Lucidchart, also known as the “Canvas View” for Lucidchart Cards/Boards.
This interface does NOT show the Style or Text panels, even though it’s technically inside Lucidchart.
That’s why:
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You only see Layout and Data
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You can’t access Text, Style, or Auto-resize
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Your shapes behave like sticky notes / cards
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Auto-shrink and auto-expand rules for normal Lucidchart shapes do not work here
You are in Card View / Smart Layout Mode, NOT the normal diagramming editor.
Now I have additional questions..
- Is is true that I can be in a “lucidspark-style editor” mode within lucid chart?
- If yes, how do I switch to the normal lucid chart diagram editor mode? Because all the options chatgpt suggested for switching out of “lucidspark-style editor” mode did not work for me.
- What is “card view / smart layout mode”?
Screen shot
- Shows significant reduction in text size but shape not auto resizing
- You can see i’m not in lucid spark and that “text settings” does not exist in the properties panel
