Adding autoshapes connection sites

[Guest]

Hi,
I am trying to make a flowchart in PowerPoint 2002 and I immediately run into a problem with connection lines:
Each autoshape has only a few fixed connection sites, and that is not enough. I need to have e.g., four arrows going out the same side of a rectangle.
Some years ago I used Micrografx's FlowCharter and it allowed adding extra connection sites to the shapes.
How can I do that in PowerPoint?

 

[Guest]

This is not available natively. All shapes have fixed number of connection points. You could probably draw a freeform line over that shape side and create edit points of equal segments and then use them as connector points

Regard
Shyam Pilla

http://www.mvps.org/sk

----- S-Johan wrote: ----

Hi
I am trying to make a flowchart in PowerPoint 2002 and I immediately run into a problem with connection lines
Each autoshape has only a few fixed connection sites, and that is not enough. I need to have e.g., four arrows going out the same side of a rectangle
Some years ago I used Micrografx's FlowCharter and it allowed adding extra connection sites to the shapes
How can I do that in PowerPoint

 

[Guest]

Yes, that will work OK
Thanks for your instant help
Greetings
S-Johan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,
I am trying to make a flowchart in PowerPoint 2002 and I immediately run into a problem with connection lines:
Each autoshape has only a few fixed connection sites, and that is not enough. I need to have

e.g., four arrows going out the same side of a rectangle.

Some years ago I used Micrografx's FlowCharter and it allowed adding extra connection sites to the shapes.
How can I do that in PowerPoint?

Somebody came up with this idea a long time ago; I wish I could remember who. Credit where
credit's due and all that. But ...

Draw another rectangle atop the one you already have (or for sanity's sake, above or to one side).
Draw any necessary connector lines attached to it.
Move it atop the existing rectangle, size it to match (or make it narrower or shorter to give the
effect of additional connector points) and finally set it to no-fill, no-outline -- make it
invisible, in other words.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint (actual the Office Drawing tool) doesn't provide the
functionality that you are looking.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (without having to resort to
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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

I seem to remember <g>:

http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/connectors.html

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

I seem to remember <g>:

http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/connectors.html

OK, but I think it goes back further than that ... really. Like, when MS used
to have a presence on CIS.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

OK, but I think it goes back further than that ... really. Like, when MS used
to have a presence on CIS.

CIS?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

OK, but I think it goes back further than that ... really. Like, when MS

used

CIS?

See, I TOLD you it was a long time ago.

See, waaaayyy back before you were born, little feller, your gramps and I used
to exchange emails and files (and very small ones they were, let me tell you).
At first, we used numbers written on rocks that we'd throw back and forth.
Then the new, faster technology came along - String! Tin cans!

Then there were modems and then there was Compuserve Information Service, where
three letter acronyms (TLAs) gained favor and thus it came to pass that we
called it CIS. And it was good. Well. Pretty good. Good enough for us.

Beat rocks with numbers on 'em hands down, sonny! ;-)