Re: Connectors in Drawing toolbar grayed out

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From: HONYAKUKA (honyakuka_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: 08 Sep 2004 14:58:13 GMT

Suzanne:

Oh. I get it now, I think. This seems rather awkward. To draw an arrow or a
rectangle, you don't need the extra contrivance of the canvas cluttering up
your page, but for Connectors, you evidently do?? To draw an arrow, you select
an arrow from the Draw toolbar (one step). To draw a Connector, you point to
Insert > Picture > Autoshapes, then use the Draw toolbar (two steps). What's
the point of this distinction? (Actually, four steps: To make the Connector
independent of the canvas, you have to move it outside the canvas, then delete
the canvas.)

Although I came upon it merely by chance, it seems easier to uncheck
"Automatically create drawing canvas"; this makes inserting a Connector into a
one-step process, just like drawing an ordinary arrow.

Jay

Subject: Re: Connectors in Drawing toolbar grayed out
From: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" sbarnhill@mvps.org
Date: 9/8/2004 10:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <e7S$gyalEHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>

No, that is *not* what I meant. Connectors are supposed to be available only
when you are using the drawing canvas. You don't have to have the automatic
feature enabled, however; you can still use Insert | Picture | New Drawing
to insert a drawing canvas. 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"HONYAKUKA" <honyakuka@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Suzanne:
>
> Thanks.
>
> Actually, I had to UNCHECK the "Automatically create drawing canvas when
> inserting AutoShapes" checkbox (Tools > Options > General tab) to enable
the
> Connectors.  (Maybe this is what you meant.)
>
> I wish Help were better cross-referenced.  The topics concerning
Connectors
> make no mention of this canvas matter.
>
> Jay
>
>
> >To use the connectors in Word 2002 and 2003, you have to enable the
drawing
> >canvas.
> >
> >-- 
> >Suzanne S. Barnhill
> >Microsoft MVP (Word)
> >Words into Type
> >Fairhope, Alabama USA
> >Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> >Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
> >all may benefit.
> >
> >"HONYAKUKA" <honyakuka@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:20040907122115.05580.00000155@mb-m27.aol.com...
> >> Office Professional 2003
> >>
> >> In Word, the Connectors sub-menu in the AutoShapes menu of the Drawing
> >toolbar
> >> shows the connectors, but they are grayed out and thus unusable.  This
is
> >the
> >> only set of objects that is grayed out.  Any ideas as to what is
causing
> >this
> >> and how to fix it?
> >>
> >> In Excel, the Connectors are available and work fine.  I can create and
> >> copy/paste a Connector from Excel to Word if necessary (although for
some
> >> reason it first appears in a huge drawing box, from which it has to be
> >> disassociated).
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Jay
>
>

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