Where are the connectors??

[flamejob]

After laying out all my flowchart bubbles I come to the part where I
add the connectors... and....

THEY'RE GONE!

I have done flow charts on the PC, but never on the mac. Are my
connectors missing? Were they there in the first place?

Anyone??

 

[Elliott Roper]

After laying out all my flowchart bubbles I come to the part where I
add the connectors... and....

THEY'RE GONE!

I have done flow charts on the PC, but never on the mac. Are my
connectors missing? Were they there in the first place?

Anyone??

If you do a lot of that, I recommend OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle Pro if
you do lots of hierarchy - use its outline feature.

Getting the output into Word is best with an eps. The result is
stunning.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Oooops... Talk about "Things we forgot"

Microsoft Office applications share a common drawing package across all of
the applications. However, in the unseemly rush to gladden the
cocaine-embalmed hearts of Marketing by inflicting the very horrid
Formatting Palette on us, the "forgot" one or two things that should have
been added. Connectors is one of them.

Start PowerPoint, show the Formatting Palette, expand the Add Objects
section at the top, click the Lines tab, and there they are...

That's where they're "supposed" to be in Word too. But somebody forgot...
You will note that the Formatting Palette in PowerPoint has an extra
row of autoshapes in the Lines category.

I suggest that you prepare your pictures in PowerPoint, then paste them into
Word when you're done. Although it's the same drawing package in both
(basically, a cut-down of Microsoft Visio that is shared across the whole of
Microsoft Office) I find that the user interface in PowerPoint basically
exposes the features in a more convenient manner.

Cheers

After laying out all my flowchart bubbles I come to the part where I
add the connectors... and....

THEY'RE GONE!

I have done flow charts on the PC, but never on the mac. Are my
connectors missing? Were they there in the first place?

Anyone??

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[flamejob]

@Elliot
In retrospect I should have, but I started in Word on a whim for a
meeting on Monday and had filled in all the bubbles, so thought I would
carry on.

@John
Aaah! At least I am not going mad! I kept going through all the methods
of activating all the tools, but never found it.

Thanks for the sanity check!