Shaping Block Arrows

[Jim McDee]

I often use curved Block Arrows, but when I try to extend one leg or the
other, I cannot do so without distorting the width of the shape on the
non-adjusted leg and the curve. I've tried SHIFT and CONTROL holding, but
cannot seem to find any way to just stretch one leg without distortion. Can
anyone help?

 

[John Wilson]

This is possible but not simple (unless someone knows better)
Easier to explain with a simpler U turn arrow but the principle is the same
for a curved arrow just the shaded colour to work round.

Insert a U turn arrow, CUT and PASTE SPECIAL as a windows metafile
Now ungroup twice
You should have three shapes fill, outline and a probably blank rectangle
Discard all but the coloured fill
Right click > edit points
Drag two end points to new position
Set line back to black (or whatever)

Hope that makes some sense!
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

 

[Jim McDee]

Thanks, it sort of worked. What I found was that the rectangle was
transparent, not black, and, if I pasted special as a Metafile, I couldn't
edit the points on the fill layer; I could only do it on the outline.
However, if I pasted as Enhanced Metafile, it worked just as you said.
Thanks for a real valuable tip, clumsy though the process may be.

 

[Echo S]

You might be glad to know that this kind of thing has improved in PPT 2007.