prevent connector-to-connector connections

[John B]

Is there any simple way to disallow connector-to-connector connections. By
this I mean a line that connects to another line instead of to a 2d shape.
In some cases in my drawings, a line-to-line connection would represent
nonsense. The particular issue I am working with now is the situation in
which I have several 2d shapes in my drawing with several connectors linking
the shapes. Because I draw the lines where I want, I don't have any T
connections. However if I drag one of the 2d shapes around the drawing,
visio will at times rearrange the connections by adding T junctions to make
the drawing look nicer. How do I disallow that behavior?

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Just for clarification, you have three shapes A,B and C. Shapes B and C are
connected to shape A. The connection paths from B and C to A have the parts
of their paths nearest A in common and connect to the same point on A. So it
appears as seperate paths from B and C that meet at a location near A in
what appears to be a T connection. From that point it appears as a single
connection to A. The connections line are seperate, but because they
overlap, they appear to join and become a single line.

What you want is distinct paths from B to A and from C to A?

You could try adding a new connection point to A so that the lines from B
and C do not join A at the same point.

John... Visio MVP

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