If you drag that, you can alter the size and orientation of the curve. Click on one of the points at the end of the line to activate it and you’ll notice that a direction handle appears. With the line still selected, click Edit Shape > Edit Points (in the Shape Styles group).
That’s the arrow added, but the line isn’t quite right yet. Staying on the Format tab, go to the Shape Styles group and click Shape Outline > Arrows, and select an arrow style. With the line still selected, you should see the Drawing Tools tab in the ribbon and the Format tab within that. We now need to edit the line’s points to give it the kind of curve we want. Don’t panic! Press the escape key to stop drawing and you will be left with a straight(ish) line. You’ll find that the end of the line follows your cursor around, curving the line this way and that. Don’t worry about curving the line at the moment a straight line is fine. Click once where you want the arrow to start and then click again where you want the arrow to end. You could draw an arc or a curve for this:įor this exercise, we’ll use a curve (the first highlighted shape in the image above). Click Insert > Illustrations > Shapes and choose one of the curved lines. Ellis Sm Bus owner, IT Consultant/Trainer, Fortune 100 Div IT Mgr Author has 2.
For the last two, using numeric keypad, you can do 24 or 25 while holding down Alt key. For a down arrow type 2193 followed by Alt-x to get. Creating A Curved Arrowįirst of all we will draw a curved line. For an up arrow type 2191 followed by Alt-x to get. There are also block arrows, but if you want a simple curve with an arrow on the end, you are stuck.Īctually, you aren’t stuck, because you can use the following secret method to create a curved arrow. There are shapes that you can draw in Word that give you an arrow, but they are either straight line arrows or curved arrows that are curved in strange ways. One of the reasons that curved arrows are so good is that they can bend around other important elements in your document and avoid obscuring them. Straight arrows are good, arrows with kinks and corners in them might work, but sometimes a curved arrow is just what the doctor ordered. Using arrows in your Microsoft Word document are a good way to bring your reader’s attention to a particular point.
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