Visio Connection Point Tool

[LewisM]

The Visio Help and the Text I'm using say that I should be able to change the
direction of a connection point by rotating the "Green Arrow" (Connection
Point Vector). I can't see a green arrow. Is there a setting that needs to
be changed?

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Lewis,

The green arrow feature was removed at some point -- I think around Visio
2002 -- due to potential lawsuits. It was too similar to another projects
UI, evidently, but I don't rightly remeber all the details of this soap
opera.

I've created a tool that used shapes and a bit of VBA code to mimic this
feature. The code places an "arrow shape" over every connection point on a
selected shape. You can then rotate the "connection-point-tool shapes" to
get the settings you desire, then just delete the tool-shapes.

Have a look here:

Connection Point Tool article/download on Visio Guy:
http://www.visguy.com/2006/10/12/connection-point-directions-types/

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[LewisM]

Thanks for the assist. This has been driving me mad for a couple of days
now! I thought I had turned something setting check mark off by accident.