Microsoft Word Flowchart Connectors Not Working
To make the gridlines appears head over to the view tab and tick the gridlines checkbox.
Microsoft word flowchart connectors not working. You insert a connector to link two of the shapes. Move any connected shapein powerpoint and excel versions of office 2013 and the connectors move and reorient with the shapes automatically. I cannot get connectors to work my shapes have no connector sites i am creating a flow chart in word 2003 using symbols from autoshapes flowchart. I want to lock the lines that go from box to box so the word tutorial says to use a connector autoshape.
You select one of the shapes and you move the shape to a different location. In this scenario the connector does not move with the shape. When you create the process flow chart process map business flow diagram or data flow diagrams and uml activity diagrams you often need to add some text or labels to the connectors. They are different from conventional lines because connectors as the name implies stay connected to the shapes they are linked to.
Click anywhere on the first shape and then drag the cursor to a connection dot on the second connection object. Your gridlines will now appear on your word document. Making a flowchart in word. Unlike many other free and commercial diagram drawing packages microsoft office shapes provide extremely rich text formatting features.
When working with shapes in any office application it s always useful to use gridlines to make sure everything is sized and placed correctly. Unfortunately this does not work the same way in word 2013.