Adding autoshapes connection sites

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S-Johan

Hi,
I am trying to make a flowchart in PowerPoint 2002 and I immediately run into a problem with connection lines:
Each autoshape has only a few fixed connection sites, and that is not enough. I need to have e.g., four arrows going out the same side of a rectangle.
Some years ago I used Micrografx's FlowCharter and it allowed adding extra connection sites to the shapes.
How can I do that in PowerPoint?
 
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Shyam Pillai

This is not available natively. All shapes have fixed number of connection points. You could probably draw a freeform line over that shape side and create edit points of equal segments and then use them as connector points

Regard
Shyam Pilla

http://www.mvps.org/sk

----- S-Johan wrote: ----

Hi
I am trying to make a flowchart in PowerPoint 2002 and I immediately run into a problem with connection lines
Each autoshape has only a few fixed connection sites, and that is not enough. I need to have e.g., four arrows going out the same side of a rectangle
Some years ago I used Micrografx's FlowCharter and it allowed adding extra connection sites to the shapes
How can I do that in PowerPoint
 
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John Langhans [MSFT]

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Hello,

PowerPoint (actual the Office Drawing tool) doesn't provide the
functionality that you are looking.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (without having to resort to
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