I've encountered a recurring and seemingly random problem. Sometimes when I draw lines, using the "line" tool I get a different shape, a line which has endpoints - a box when you have the shape selected, not a diamond. Sometimes those are not even the end of the line, they appear part way along the line.
This creates a problem for me, as mostly I want to be able to move the "points" at the end of or along the line. If one of them is an endpoint then the whole "shape" moves with the, rotating or changing size.
I created and example, and turned on developer to see what was different in about the shapes. On a drawings I was working on I had a line, with a right-angle bend, where the "corner" of the bend was an endpoint. I tried to recreate this but couldn't. That's when I turned developer on, the shape in question was Line Groups.vsd:Page1:Sheet.21<SHAPE>. I then created an apparently identical line, but this has no endpoint. This was Line Groups.vsd:Page1:Sheet.21<SHAPE>.
Inspecting the shape sheet (that's on the Developer tab) it shows that .21 has a "1-D Endpoints" section and a "Group properties" section on the shape sheet. Whereas .22 doesn't.
Of course I have no more idea how .21 happened and then why .22 happened.
My normal way to overcome this is simply to redraw the line that shows the endpoints. However, I can see that sometimes it would, or might, be useful to have endpoints on shapes I create using the line drawing tool. So it would be useful to know. Equally, and for most of the time far more use would be to convert or remove the endpoint when it happens and I don't want it. And the ultimate would be to know and prevent it happening in the first place!
Does anyone have any idea for this?
I've attached, hopefully, a power point which says the above and includes screen shots for the shapes, which should show what I mean.
Thanks
