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> It must be nice to be the designer of the connection point feature to
> make the determination that nobody would ever want to add additional
> connection points to an autoshape.
Well, yes, but on the other hand, the presentation design
and word-processing tools in third party flow-chart software
leave a lot to be desired, too.
With Microsoft Draw tools, you can put shapes and lines
anywhere, but of course they aren't "sticky."
I've seen some decent freeware/shareware charting tools,
but packages like Visio and ABC Flowchart are better because
you can hook chart objects into a database.
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Michael West
