Breaking a free form line

[Nic]

I have drawn a freeform line on one slide (a boundary that sits on top of a
map showing restrictions of movement) and now want to copy it into another
slide and then 'break' it in two or three places (to show how a different
category of person can access through the boundary in these places). As the
line is long and complex, I don't want to have to re-draw it. Is there a way
I can select two of the points (using the Edit Points tool) and then delete
that segment?

Thanks

 

[John Wilson]

Don't think you can do this easily in ppt. You can however make two or more
copies and delete different end points from each to make ywo shapes which fit
together. Hope that makes sense
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[Nic]

Thanks, John, this is what I have resorted to doing. It just seems a very
messy (not to say longwinded) way of doing things.
Nic

 

[CTdesign]

If you have Illustrator you can copy and paste the line from PPT to ILL. Then
you can use the pathfinder to break up the line and then export it as a WMF.

When you bring the WMF into Powerpoint, it comes in as a picture but if you
just ungroup it, it becomes a shape again. You just have to delete the extra
junk like the bounding box, etc.