Connectors Defaulting to Right-Angle Connectors

[Jessica Campbell]

I just upgraded to Visio 2007. I am working on a flowchart, and have a
number of itmes grouped. I've noticed that now when I ungroup these items,
all of my connectors default back to right-angle connectors, even if I had
them set as straight. (I generally have a mix of straight and right-angle
connectors in each group.)

Does anyone know of a way to change the defaults so that the connectors
remain as-is, even when ungrouped? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Paul Herber]

I just upgraded to Visio 2007. I am working on a flowchart, and have a
number of itmes grouped. I've noticed that now when I ungroup these items,
all of my connectors default back to right-angle connectors, even if I had
them set as straight. (I generally have a mix of straight and right-angle
connectors in each group.)

Does anyone know of a way to change the defaults so that the connectors
remain as-is, even when ungrouped? Any help would be appreciated.

Only seems to happen to straight-line connectors getting changed to
right-angle, curved connectors stay as they are. What's more, once a
right-angle connector is in a group trying to change the routing to
straight-line or curved doesn't work.

 

[KJM Clark]

This is an old thread, but I thought I'd add a related answer. I kept adding a connector that I wanted to be 'S' shaped, that is, with *two* right angles. I found out that you can Ctrl- or Shift-drag the center point to get some different behavior, but for some reason, every time I tried to move the end point the stupid thing would change back to a single right angle ('L' shape).

I found the fix for this maddening behavior. If you right-click the connector for its pop-up window, choose 'Format', choose 'Behavior', and go to the 'Connector' tab, you'll see a 'Reroute' setting under 'Line Routing'. This was set to "Freely". When I changed it to "Never", the problem went away.

I couldn't find anything about this in the help file, which seems to be pretty useless. I suspect Visio was 'Freely' choosing to change my connector back to a single-right angle, though I wanted control of that.