PP2007 ANNOYANCE: block arrows

[fred]

When drawing a block arrow, there is no longer a "yellow diamond" handle
allowing the length and width of the arrowhead to be adjusted.

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[tohlz]

There are now two yellow diamond handles instead of one. The first one is on
top of the arrowhead, another one is at the arrow tail.
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[fred]

There are now two yellow diamond handles instead of one. The first one is on
top of the arrowhead, another one is at the arrow tail.

Sorry, didn't clarify sufficiently: the handles are not present if the arrow
is thin. If it's a very wide arrow, the handles appear.

 

[tohlz]

This is the same as 2003 or previous versions, nothing missing as far as I
see.
If the arrow is too small, the yellow diamonds can't be seen. You can
however, zoom in the slide to have these diamonds appear.
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Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

Site Updated: Sept 05, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
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[fred]

This is the same as 2003 or previous versions...
If the arrow is too small, the yellow diamonds can't be seen.

OK, but in previous versions, any normal-size arrow had visible diamonds.
Now, the threshold is much greater - it appears to take an arrow of around 40
pixels to show the diamonds. So for any arrow I'd routinely draw, I have to
draw a bigger one first, get the proportions right and then (painfully, given
the difficulty of sizing in PP2007) re-size it.

The point is, any arrow that's not ridiculously thin should have a handle.
(The ability to show a handle doesn't depend on arrow width, anyway, as the
handle floats at the edge of the selection.) While workarounds are useful to
know until flaws are fixed, there seems to be a tendency in this forum to
defend bad design rather than helping users discovering flaws get the message
through to Microsoft.