can't delete callouts!   

I created a document in which I placed callouts on top a few graphics. I got 
the callouts from the drawing toolbar (AutoShapes > Callouts).

A colleague of mine was creating a different document from which he copied 
one of these graphics with the callouts in them to past into his new 
document. When he tried to delete the callouts, he couldn't, nor could he 
send them to the back behind the graphic. He could, however, delete the main 
graphic itself. I've tried to recreate this, but can't - everything deletes 
just fine.

Does anyone have an idea why the callouts can't be deleted? Does something 
else happen when they're copied over? The only workaround we could think of 
was to resize the objects to zero length and width, but it doesn't answer the 
obvious question.

Any advice is appreciated,

date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:43:00 -0700   author:   WG, LI

RE: can't delete callouts!   

I can think of a couple of things that could be happening here.
1. The callout could be grouped with the graphic. Go to the Drawing menu for 
the Ungroup option.
2. When copied over into the new document, the paste option (say Picture) 
could have changed the group to a single object, ie the callout is now merged 
with the graphic. No way to resolve this except to go back to the original 
document and try to select the graphic only.
Hope this helps.
DeanH


"WG, LI" wrote:

> I created a document in which I placed callouts on top a few graphics. I got 
> the callouts from the drawing toolbar (AutoShapes > Callouts).
> 
> A colleague of mine was creating a different document from which he copied 
> one of these graphics with the callouts in them to past into his new 
> document. When he tried to delete the callouts, he couldn't, nor could he 
> send them to the back behind the graphic. He could, however, delete the main 
> graphic itself. I've tried to recreate this, but can't - everything deletes 
> just fine.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea why the callouts can't be deleted? Does something 
> else happen when they're copied over? The only workaround we could think of 
> was to resize the objects to zero length and width, but it doesn't answer the 
> obvious question.
> 
> Any advice is appreciated,

date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:09:01 -0700   author:   DeanH