From the course: Visio Desktop: Tips and Tricks

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Control lines and connections

Control lines and connections

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Control lines and connections

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- [Instructor] Why don't the darned lines go where I want them to? That's one of the most frequent complaints about Visio that I see in online forums. Part of the challenge with lines in Visio is that many Visio shapes, including some lines, are designed to adapt on your behalf to changes in the diagram. The purpose of this video and the next one is to demonstrate enough about lines, shapes, and glue so you can use their flexibility and adaptive behavior to your advantage. The red lines on the left side of this page are simple lines that were drawn with the line tool. I've made them red and thicker than usual to make them easy to see and to distinguish them from the dynamic connectors we'll talk about in a moment. The yellow shapes were drawn using the rectangle tool. Let's see how they interact, or don't, with each other. I'll drag a line between the two rectangles. Drag the left end so it touches the edge of the…

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