Arrow Pointers in MS Word: Drawing Tips
- by Carol Bratt on 20060216 @ 05:46PM EST | google it | send to friends
- Filed under Carol's Corner Office | (related terms: word, segment, point, uninterrupted, drawing)
Have you ever needed to add directions (like a map) on top of a graphic in MS Word? There are a couple of ways to achieve this, but one method in particular can produce a clean and uninterrupted line.
To do so:
- Launch MS Word.
- Display the Drawing toolbar (hint: click View -> Toolbars -> Drawing).
- Choose either the 'Line' or 'Arrow' tool, and then draw the first segment of the line with your mouse.
- For the next step: rather than using multiple line objects to draw the rest of your path, simply expand this first line by right-clicking on the line and choosing 'Edit Points'.
- Now when you put the mouse over the line object, the cursor will change to a crosshair with a circle in the middle. Click on the line and drag in any direction to bend the line in a new angle.
That's it!
If you want to add a new segment to the existing line, right-click on the line and choose 'Add Point'. When you do, Word will add a new bending point to the line object. You can then click and drag on that point (as discussed above) to create yet another segment -- and you're guaranteed that all of the individual segments will be connected in an uninterrupted fashion.
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