How to edit points when line or arrow selected?

[pejackso]

In Office 2003, I could click on a line or arrow; then right-click and get a
menu that included "edit points" option whereby I could click anywhere on the
line or arrow and pull that point to make an angle. I could do this any
number of times to produce any number of angles in the line. How do I do that
in Office 2007?

 

[John Guin]

Here's how I did this in Word 2007 (never tried in Word 2003):
click the Insert tab on the ribbon
click shapes
select the Scribble shape and draw my line
then, just to the right of the gallery with the shapes it the button to
enable edit points
click it and reshape all you want

 

[pejackso]

That does work. Seems impossible to get a straight line though. And there are
about a thousand edit points.
I found another way: copy from Office 2003 a line or arrow that you have
already inserted at least one edit point in. Then paste it to Office 2007 and
you can use edit points as if it were 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Why would you want to edit the points on a straight line?

 

[pejackso]

If, for example, I locate a text box to the side of a .jpg in a document that
is a map of a city. The text box has address and other info. I want the text
box to point at a building in the .jpg. I insert a straight line arrow from
text box to building. The line obscures something important on the .jpg. I
want the arrow to go around the object. I create two or three edit points in
the middle of the line, pull them and it works out nicely.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, so it's not a straight line any more!

 

[pejackso]

Yes, but very important to start off with a straight line so it can be easily
customized (edited).