Horizontal or vertical lines using freeform drawing tool

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Prof. Sabol

Back in February 2008, a participant identified a big problem with PowerPoint
2007's freeform drawing tool: it doesn't allow you to use the "shift" key to
draw vertical or horizontal lines. This has been a long-standing feature in
prior versions of PowerPoint. Without being able to draw horizontal or
vertical lines as a part of a freeform object, PowerPoint ceases to be a
useful program for my purposes. Unfortunately, I was unaware of this serious
shortcoming before upgrading to 2007.

Has this problem been fixed? I have installed SP1.

Thank you.
 
Yes, and no (How very ....)

Look here for MS references to bug fixes for 2007

Bill D.
 
Thank you for the reply. Do you have a reference for the bug fix (i.e. where
is "here"?)

Thank you.

Tom
 
The Feb 2008 hotfix addressed the resizing problem when using SHIFT with a
straight or vertical line, but I assume that there is no fix for the specific
problem I raised (i.e. using SHIFT in a freeform shape to draw a horizontal
or vertical line).

If that is the case, I may have to uninstall PPT 2007 and reinstall PPT2003.

Thank you.

Tom
 
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