Drawing with lines...

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My goal is to draw clean and simple electronic schematics, and building them
with a pile of individual lines makes for bad corners and other stuff. I'm
trying to figure out how to make a "T", for example, with the edit points
tool. Can this be done? Can two lines be connected into a T? Or a W, or
whatever? I'm not really looking at grouping...

Does Ppt 2002 have more/better drawing tools?
 
Well, you could do a "W" pretty easily, but a "T" would require the long
stem to be "retraced," if you will. There's a Bezier Curves tutorial on
my site, but I doubt there's anything in it you don't already know.

2002 has the same drawing tools. So does 2003.

Echo
 
Connecting several lines is a pain, but if you draw them as one line to
start with, it's fairly easy.

Use the freeform tool

W should be easy once you get the hang of it (grids on, shields up)

For a T, imagine you're looking at a compass.

Start at West, click.
Click again at East.
Click again at dead center.
Doubleclick at South.

Thicken to taste.

Works in 97 on.


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I love the way you described the method.

<G>lad it worked for you.

That might do the trick. And Echo,
 
You may want to try inserting several text boxes each with an individual T
in a large sans serif font (like letter gothic, 72, or whatever). They
could be rotated or flipped, and overlapped as needed.
 
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