Draw a line with connection points

A connector is a line with connection points at each end that stays connected to the shapes you lot attach information technology to. Connectors tin can be directly , elbow (angled) , or curved . When you choose a connector, dots appear on the shape outline. These dots indicate where you can attach a connector.

Important:In Give-and-take and Outlook, connexion points piece of work only when the lines and the objects they are connecting are placed on a drawing canvass. To insert a cartoon canvas, click the Insert tab, click Shapes, and then click New Cartoon Canvas at the bottom of the carte.

To add a line that connects to other objects, follow these steps.

1. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes.

   

2. Nether Lines, click the connector that you want to add.

   

   Annotation:The last iii styles listed under Lines (Curve, Freeform Shape, and Scribble) are not connectors. Rest your arrow over each style to see its name earlier clicking it.

3. To draw a line connecting shapes, on the first shape, remainder your mouse pointer over the shape or object to which y'all want to attach the connector.

   Connection dots volition appear, indicating that your line can be connected to the shape. (The color and way of these dots vary among different versions of Part.)

   

   Note:If no connection points appear, yous've either chosen a line style that is not a connector, or you lot are not working on a drawing canvas (in Word or Outlook).

   Click anywhere on the first shape, and then drag the cursor to a connectedness dot on the 2d connection object.

   Notation:When y'all rearrange shapes that are joined with connectors, the connectors remain attached to and move with the shapes. If you motion either finish of a connector, that end detaches from the shape, and y'all can then attach information technology to some other connection site on the same shape or adhere it to another shape. After the connector attaches to a connection site, the connector stays continued to the shapes no matter how you move each shape.

Describe a line without connectedness points

To add a line that is not connected to other objects, follow these steps.

1. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes.

   

2. Under Lines, click any line style yous like.

   

3. Click one location in the document, agree and drag your pointer to a different location, and then release the mouse push.

Draw the same line or connector multiple times

If you need to add the same line repeatedly, you can do so quickly past using Lock Drawing Style.

1. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes.

   

2. Under Lines, correct-click the line or connector that you lot desire to add, and so click Lock Cartoon Mode.

   

3. Click where y'all want to commencement the line or connector, and then drag the cursor to where you want the line or connector to stop.

4. Repeat step 3 for each line or connector yous want to add.

5. When you lot finish adding all of the lines or connectors, press ESC.

Add, edit, or remove an arrow or a shape on a line

1. Select the line you lot want to modify.
   To work with multiple lines, select the first line, and and then printing and hold Ctrl while you select the other lines.

2. On the Format tab, click the arrow adjacent to Shape Outline.

   
   If y'all don't run into the Format tab, make certain yous selected the line. You might have to double-click the line.

3. Betoken to Arrows, and so click the pointer style that y'all want.

   To alter the arrow type or size, or to change the blazon, width, or color of the line or arrow, click More Arrows, and and so choose the options that you desire.

   

   To remove an arrowhead, click the first style, Pointer Mode one (no arrowheads).

Delete lines or connectors

• Click the line, connector, or shape that you want to delete, and and then printing Delete.
  If you desire to delete multiple lines or connectors, select the first line, press and hold Ctrl while you select the other lines, and then press Delete.

Come across besides

• Insert or remove horizontal lines

• Depict or edit a freeform shape

• Modify the colour, fashion, or weight of a line

• Group or ungroup shapes, pictures, or other objects

• Remove the underline from hyperlink text (PowerPoint)

• Bear witness or hide gridlines in Give-and-take, PowerPoint, or Excel