Connectors and custom anchor points

Method Three

Why?

Create your own custom connector points in PowerPoint.

(With thanks to Robert Lerner)!

Now, another option is to use the ability of enhanced metafiles to keep vector points. We effectively draw an autoshape (but it doesn't work for ovals or rectangles), then copy it, paste special it back, and ungroup! Simple ;-)

So, let's get an autoshape and copy it. Then paste special back as an enhanced metafile.

We end up with another version of the same shape. We then ungroup it, which turns it into an object we can work with.

Right-click the shape and then click Edit Picture.

Click Yes in the dialog box, which ungroups the picture's elements.

Press F4 on the keyboard, which repeats the last command to ungroup the elements another level.

Press Escape to deselect the shapes.
Click and drag each of the shape elements from each other, deleting all but the one shape you want to work with. ...
 

Then we can right click on the line object left behind, and select edit points.

Our autoshape has magically turned into something we can attach points to.

Clever, huh!

Method Four

 
© Glen Millar

Last Updated: March 28, 2005