How to lock connectors to text boxes in Word

[Guest]

Have text boxes in a Word document. Trying to use "connectors" but cannot get
the blue connector sites to display on the text boxes, no matter what is
selected or where the line is dragged. Only the green "unlocked" connector
ends show.
What is being done wrong?

TIA

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello masyasha

Have text boxes in a Word document. Trying to use "connectors" but cannot get
the blue connector sites to display on the text boxes, no matter what is
selected or where the line is dragged. Only the green "unlocked" connector
ends show.

Last time I heard something about this, there was a consensus that in
Word, this only works while you are in a Drawing Canvas. [Since I try to
get rid of that thing as soon as possible, I wouldn't really know, and I
do most of my desings of such type in PowerPoint or Visio and import
them later.]

HTH
Robert

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If this is Word 2002 or 2003, the connectors work only in a drawing canvas.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thank you for answering. It's 2003.

If this is Word 2002 or 2003, the connectors work only in a drawing canvas.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Masyasha,

To get a drawing canvas to work with (so you'll have the active connectors in Word) you can use Insert=>Picture=>New drawing then
add your shapes and connectors.

The method Robert mention, working in Powerpoint then copying the result to Word may also work for you. A Powerpoint slide is
effectively a Drawing Canvas and the connectors work while in a slide. You can use the Drawing toolbar in both Word and Powerpoint.

For Word's active (blue dot) connectors to work the use of a drawing canvas/container (named MS Draw in earlier versions) has always
been needed.

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Thank you for answering. It's 2003. >>
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