I can't find any mention of this problem on the web or this forum so I am at wits end. I have a drawing (created in X4 but editing presently in X5) and I can't unlock all objects. Somehow all objects became locked and I can only unlock them individually which will take hours...I need to unlock all objects but this option is greyed out.
Any idea why the 'unlock all objects' menu option would be greyed out?
Hi John,
This code does not affecrf inside powerclips. Is there any way for Powerclips contents?
Hi.
Are Items inside powerclips locked?
-John
This will unlock all, even items inside powerclip that are locked.
Option ExplicitSub unlockEm() Dim s As Shape, sr As ShapeRange Dim pwc As PowerClip Dim sp As Shape For Each s In ActivePage.FindShapes Set pwc = Nothing On Error Resume Next 'of course were gonna get an error Set pwc = s.PowerClip On Error GoTo 0 'cancels error handling If Not pwc Is Nothing Then For Each sp In pwc.Shapes sp.Locked = False Next sp End If If s.Locked = True Then s.Locked = False Next sEnd Sub
Thank you John, those codes are very good working. But if 2 or more level power clips inside powerclips then your code does not work.
For intsance
Powerclip--- Powrclip--------Powerclip...----------- Locked Object
It may be related, it may not.
I recently clicked the edit across layers button, by mistake, in Object manager and couldn't edit some objects, had me scratching my head for a while.
I couldn't figure out why I couldn't edit some parts of a project. Then all of a sudden I could edit other parts. Then I noticed some layers greyed out and through some trial and error, worked out I had somehow clicked the edit across layer button. I clicked it again to allow me to edit across layers once again.
It took me a while to figure out that only the selected layer is active and able to be edited.
My point being, have you clicked this button?
Disregard