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
    2015-08-21T15:16:54+00:00

    I was also having this problem.  I stumbled upon a possible solution....I set the rotation to 176 degrees and the line appears straight and inline with a reference line.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-13T22:17:08+00:00

    Hey

    I maybe found a decent way around it:

    You'll need to use a modified line and not an arrow (just give the default line an arrow ending).

    I tried to use the width set to 0 solution and it works;

    if you then click on the object with the right button and set it as default for that object, you can reshape the line freely and it doesn't "jump" anymore.

    It gets really more fluid.

    And vertical/horizontal.

    Yessssss!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-13T21:23:18+00:00

    Folks, I tried all the solutions above this one and none of them worked for me.  THIS is the ONLY one that worked for me.  It should be at the TOP of the list...would save a bunch of time & frustration.

    I am glad it works, though!  I went back and used Word 2010 (as suggested in one of the above solutions...ugh!) because I just couldn't get the arrows to stay straight in Word 2013 using any other solution...until I tried this solution!  

    I like Word 2013 and will now be able to use it when using the arrows in documents. 

    Thanks!!!! for a working solution!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-13T21:38:11+00:00

    This is the simplest solution yet!  And maybe not a 'bug' but a more 'precise' way of setting direction of arrows in documents?

    In any case, this works well and very easily!

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