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My shapes resize if the text I type or paste into them doesn’t fit! Aaaaack!

I’ve read here that I can use “Match Size” but even that means I need to repeatedly do that for most shapes as I go along. This creates TONS of uncesseary work that has nothing to do with the content I’m using your tool to create. 

The other problem with Match Size is that you can’t tell Lucidchart which shape should be changed and which should remain the same! It seems to automatically choose the larger one if the text is too big regardless of the one I choose first or last. That doesn’t solve my problem of wanting to work in the original smaller shapes.

I’ve read through these comments and know you’ve gotten lots of feedback that these workarounds are not satisfactory! 

Please, please, PLEASE make this a setting in Document Settings. I don’t need or want Lucidchart making these decisions for me.

Hi @Trinka Link 

To take on the Match Size callout per say - (can’t tell Lucidchart which shape should be changed) when you click on the shape upon selection as shown below.

'Match Size' feature could help with this (GIF example below). It will not prevent the box from resizing (unfortunately there is currently no way to only lock the shape size) but it will help you quickly modify the incorrectly sized shapes. 

 

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More information can be referred in the similar post to give more clarity.

Stop rectangle shapes from automatically resizing | Community (lucid.co)

 

Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
Warm regards

 


Also, the below help article explains how to manually set the height and width of shapes by right-clicking on the shape, and entering your desired dimensions 

Precision control of shape size in Lucidchart | Community

Best Regards


Hi @Trinka Link, thank you for posting in the community! Just to add on to what @Humas1985 already shared, it is possible to choose which shape(s) need to match in size. This is determined by which shape you right-click. See below GIF for a demonstration:


The behaviour of your shapes and text will also depend on what you have selected for font size. 

If you set a size (eg. 10pt) and add text to a shape, the shape will resize to fit the text you’ve added.  On the other hand, if you have font size set to Auto, the text added to your shape will automatically resize to fit into the size of your shape. 

The following post has some additional details about this: 


I hope this helps. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions!


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