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
    2016-08-29T03:46:54+00:00

    Genius!

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-08-19T22:45:43+00:00

    Note that the original post in this thread discusses a concrete bug with Line shapes in Word 2013 which probably won't be fixed. On the other hand, there is a simple workaround available.

    You can post feedback on Microsoft Word in the Uservoice forum at http://word.uservoice.com.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-19T13:49:48+00:00

    This is no "untypical" at all. I had to reverse engineer much of hte kernel code in windows 3.1 and the atrocious mess  that I found, the complete lack of evidence that most of their sold software has even been through beta testing, is something that I have observed for the last two decades. Windows 10 is the last insult to the intelligence.

    It's not just the user interface, it's the whole design philosophy, and the total lack of any connection with what people actually do when they use it.

    I usually use Delphi to design the software that comes with my products, and it gets tested to bitsfor months before it gets released. Word 2013 is one of the worst things I have ever seen in the market since I've been writing software.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-08-10T06:42:27+00:00

    omg, your the mvp of the century. Thanks man :D

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