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Using Office Drawing Tools
Using Lines and Arrows
After you have your basic shapes down, you’ll frequently want lines, dashed lines, and
arrows to connect them all, and illustrate the relationships in your charts.
Excel and PowerPoint provide true charting connectors—lines that stay connected to preset
positions on shapes—for every shape in a document. As you move the shapes, the connec-
tors move with them without requiring you to manually redraw them. Word and Outlook
have connectors, too, as long as all the connected shapes sit in the same drawing canvas.
To create a connector, do the following:
1. Draw the shapes you want to connect. In Word (or ...