why cant i draw a straight line or arrow in word 2013?

Anonymous
2014-01-04T08:05:17+00:00

hi

in word 2013 when I want to draw an arrow or a line it cant be straight in 180 degree in page and it is always a bit curve to up or down for example draw a rectangle and on its border line draw an arrow ( the arrow must be exactly on rectangle border line ) and you will see that the arrow is curve and is not on rectangle border.

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Anonymous
2014-03-21T15:41:48+00:00

This is easy to recreate, but can be solved by setting the height or width to zero in the ribbon.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T21:49:36+00:00

    Not true, the arrow just shrinks to nothing. The answer does not work

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T22:32:52+00:00

    Setting the height to zero worked for me, for a horizontal arrow line.  Thanks!  I never had even looked at that part of the Format ribbon

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-11T02:53:20+00:00

    Unfortunately, it's being experience by me right now.  It's nice to believe that one day Microsoft will be able to make a fully functioning Word program without bugs such as this one.....We can dream.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-21T13:03:46+00:00

    I don't think anyone would dispute that this should work the way it used to. Since it does not, just be glad that there is a (relatively) simple workaround.

    Unfortunately, since there is a workaround, and since the bug doesn't cause loss of data, and since it is a bug experienced by relatively few users (since those who use the drawing tools are a subset of all users), it is unlikely that fixing the bug will have a very high priority.

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