Nathan
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When trying to place connectors (connector arrows, connector lines, et. al.)
between flow chart processes that contain text, the connection sites do not
highlight blue and no connection is made.
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Robert M. Franz (RMF)
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Hello Nathan
When trying to place connectors (connector arrows, connector lines, et. al.)
between flow chart processes that contain text, the connection sites do not
highlight blue and no connection is made.
version of Word? ISTR (dimly, since I rarely do flow charts directly in
Word) that connectors work in a Drawing Canvas only.
HTH
Robert
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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 22, 2020)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365
Drawing shapes are a great way to add common graphic flourishes to your document. The drawing capabilities of Word allow you to define connectors that link different shapes together. These connectors are available if you create your drawing within the drawing canvas, and they are dynamic in nature. This means that even if you move the connected shapes around on the canvas, the connectors stretch, bend, and move as necessary to keep the links valid.
To see how connectors work, try this:
- Display the Insert tab of the ribbon.
- In the Illustrations group, click the Shapes tool. Word displays a plethora of options.
- Click New Drawing Canvas. Word displays the drawing canvas and the Format tab of the ribbon. (This step is very important; if you don’t work in a drawing canvas, you cannot use connectors.)
- Using the Insert Shapes group at the left of the ribbon, select a shape you want to create.
- Click and drag within the drawing canvas to create the shape you selected in step 4.
- Use the Insert Shapes group to choose another shape.
- Click and drag within the drawing canvas to create the second shape.
- Again, using the Insert Shapes group, select the connector you want to use. (Connectors are in the Lines category. If you hover the mouse pointer over the «line» you will see a description such as «Connector: Elbow» or «Connector: Curved.»)
- In the drawing canvas, move the mouse pointer over one of the shapes you previously placed. You should see one or more connector dots appear around the perimeter of the shape. (The color and style of these dots vary depending on which version of Word you are using.) These dots are smaller than the regular handles, and they represent connection points you can use.
- Click on or near one of the connection points. This anchors one end of the connector. (See Figure 1.)
- Move the mouse pointer over the other shape and click on a connection point there. The connector is now in place. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 1. One end of the connector is anchored.
Figure 2. Both ends of the connector is anchored to both shapes.
Note that in step 9 you may not see any connector dots by moving the mouse pointer over one of the shapes. If that is the case, click on one end of the connector line and drag it to the perimeter of the shape. The mouse pointer changes to a large plus sign and at least one connector dot appears on the perimeter of the shape. «Drop» the end of the connector line on a connection point and that end of the connector line is anchored to the shape. Repeat this process with the other end of the connector line to anchor it to the other shape.
Now you can move the original shapes around, and the connector remains connected to the two connection points you selected. You can add additional shapes, as desired, with any connectors you desire.
You should be aware that connectors are only available between shapes placed on the drawing canvas. If you try to create a connector involving a shape that is outside of the drawing canvas, connectors are no longer available from the menus or ribbon.
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I had/have the same issue,
It is not clear why this happens, couldn’t find any Microsoft blog post or something that confirms this, BUT, when looking through the Word 2010 settings I have found that there was a complete revamp of the shortcuts.
To «restore» word to the way you remember, you need to go to, File->Options->Customize Ribbon
On the bottom there is a label «Keyboard Shortcuts» and a button «Customize…» — click it
On the Categories box, scroll until you find «All Commands» and select it.
Now, from the right box select the following Command: EditCopy
Look at the «Current Keys» Box you will see «Ctrl+Insert» which is the NEW mapping
now put your cursor in the «Press new shortcut key» and Press Ctrl+C, a button on the bottom named Assign will light up, and you click on it.
Do the same for all the shortcuts you like, such as EditPaste, EditUndo, EditRedo, EditCut, SelectAll etc, then save.
Now everything works perfectly.
Again, I’m not clear why this wasn’t communicated by MS, it seems they are trying to force a new (old) standard on us that was used in mac for a long time,
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For some time now, I was getting very annoyed while copy-pasting content from other software into Microsoft Word 2010. I would press CTRL+C at some other software and then would press ALT+TAB to go into an open Word document and press CTRL+V to paste, but it would not. So I had to move my fingers far away to SHIFT+INSERT to paste.
Today had enough so after some Google search on it, found the best fix by Moshe Eschel at:
http://superuser.com/questions/215595/keyboard-shortcuts-such-as-ctrl-c-ctrl-v-and-ctrl-z-not-working-in-word-2010-on
To «restore» word to the way you remember, you need to go to, File->Options->Customize Ribbon On the bottom there is a label «Keyboard Shortcuts» and a button «Customize…» – click it
On the Categories box, scroll until you find «All Commands» and select it. Now, from the right box select the following Command: EditCopy Look at the «Current Keys» Box you will see «Ctrl+Insert» which is the NEW mapping now put your cursor in the «Press new shortcut key» and Press Ctrl+C, a button on the bottom named Assign will light up, and you click on it.
Do the same for all the shortcuts you like, such as EditPaste, EditUndo, EditRedo, EditCut, SelectAll etc.
Wonder why Microsoft didn’t add both the old and new shortcuts there, since it seems the dialog does support it. What a huge oversight, having Microsoft Word try to impose a shortcut from Macs (as it seems) to longtime Windows users (especially when other software the user works with use other set of shortcuts for copy-paste).
Moreover, the option to reassign the shortcut keys was very deeply hidden, hard for the average user to find it by themselves (couldn’t find it either and I don’t consider myself an average user).
Even more pathetic was the default shortcut key for Select All (usually Ctrl+A). It was Ctrl+5 and Ctrl+Clear (Numeric keyboard 5). What the heck Microsoft?
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I’m deploying Office 2016 as part of a Windows 10 SOE update, and I’ve run into a problem I’m having trouble solving.
Hyperlinks created using the Insert Hyperlink tool are not opening at all. This is only an issue in Word — hyperlinks created the same way in Excel work normally.
I can type a URL directly into the document, it’s converted to a hyperlink, and works perfectly.
When I mouse over broken hyperlinks, I’m not even getting the ‘Ctrl+Click to follow link’ tip appearing. I can Ctrl+Click on the link, and nothing at all happens — no errors, IE doesn’t attempt to open the page. Changing default browser
to Chrome makes no difference.I press Alt+F9, and can see that the link contains the correct hyperlink code — ie {HYPERLINK-«http://www.google.com.au»}
I’ve had a look at our Group Policy, and I can’t find any settings in there that look like they’d affect this behaviour, and I’m tending to think it’s not going to be a system policy given Excel can do this without issue.
Driving me up the wall! Does anyone have any ideas at all, or suggestions where I could look for further troubleshooting?
Thanks,
Stuart
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So I’ve found the answer — it doesn’t make a lot of sense though.
The policy setting causing the issues was User ConfigurationPoliciesAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft Office 2016Security SettingsCheck OLE Objects. This was Enabled, with ‘Strict Allow List’ selected.
Does Word keep a separate OLE allow list to other office applications? This is a global office setting, yet hyperlinks worked without problem in Excel and Outlook when created exactly the same way. Bug in Word?
Whatever the reason, I can stop pulling my hair out now!
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