Cheers Haakoo and thanks for your suggestion/fix however I'm never happy messing about with the registry and it shouldn't be necessary either.

I prefer to use XaRegEdit created by the Bill Taylor aided by Steve Ledger (Edit: Forgot to add John Horn) to do these things but I don't believe this app is any longer being updated (?). Xara should have long ago produced their own version of Bills excellent app but they seem to prefer this hands off approach.

But more than that, Text inside a Shape is just another kludge, a Bad Bolt-on, a poorly implemented workaround.

Edit: The app seems to still be operative for V15.