Re: aligning connectors

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From: Al Edlund (edlund_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:08:27 -0500

Mai-Lan talks to this in her blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant
Al
"tshad" <tscheiderich@ftsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:O82LwiquEHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I am having a hard time adding connectors to my shapes so that when I
>connect them to another shape the connector is exactly straight across. Is
>there a way to say "align the connectors"?.
>
> Also, when I connect the connectors, many times I can't get the arrows to
> point at the object. They will point either up or down. I end up trying
> to move the connectors farther away from the object or continually create
> and delete the connector points until I can get the arrows to work. Is
> there a way to fix this?
>
> I spend more time trying to get the connectors to line up or deal with the
> arrows than do the design.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom.
>

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