Frame dimensions

Hi,

I'm having a little trouble with frame dimensions in Word. If you put some things in a frame and set the widthrule and heightrule to Auto, then it will appropriately size the frame. Fair enough. But now the width and height properties are set to -1. If you then set the widthrule / heightrule to Exact, then it resets the dimensions and keeps the values (ie, it resizes the frame), rather than keeping the dimensions and resetting the values (ie, keeping the frame at the same size and changing the width and height numbers to match).
Any suggestions as to how I can get the width and height of a frame when it has been autosized.

Incidentally, if you try manually (from the Format menu) setting the rules to Exact then you find that it keeps the dimensions of the frame, as I would like.

All suggestions appreciated.

zaza

Ook.

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