 In this training video, we're going to look at the controlling connection points and adding connection points to Visio shapes So right now I've got a what's called and The brainstorming shapes. I've got a brainstorming stencil and I got a main topic, which is project management and then I've got lots of topics which are on the left and on the right as well as a Multitopic than the bottom right now I'm going to connect these to the main topic But for example, I've got there a wavy connector attached to the first Topic now if I try and connect this to the main topic As I stop getting closer It shows me there only eight connect the points. There's three little gray Dots on the top of the shape of the oval three at the bottom as we can see one left one right So that's 18 total But now I'm going to let go of this wavy connector shape So, you know, you've got eight connect the points. We've actually got six topics on the left hand side A further five on the left on the right hand side plus a multi top. It's in effect. We've got 12 shapes we want to Attach the top to the main topic But only eight connect the points now the only option now would be to Bring these kind of connectors towards and start doubling up you'd start doubling up on Connect the points to make them connect effectively. So the reason for connecting is if the shape moves So does the line go with it? That's that's the benefit of connecting to these connected points So I'm going to add more connect the points here to give me the ability To add more of these connectors to connect the points without doubling up on any of them So to do this you could I select the shape first I Change the zoom now to make the zoom much bigger because this can be quite fiddly work. So I'm going to change the zoom to I'm gonna go for 75% so that lets me concentrate now more on the main topic and to Control the connector points. It's on the home tab in the tools section of ribbon does an X When you turn this X on The second paragraph is what's important where it says hold the control key and click where you want to add that move or delete a connector point So soon you turn it on you got to go to the to the shape and then hold a control key and then click around the Shape where you want to connect the points. So I'm turning X on now And now you can see the little gray dots showing the connector points But I'm going to move my mouse on the outside of the Blue oval hold my control key down as the paragraph instructed me to do And now you you'll get a little hazy kind of X symbol Now this X symbol I'm going to click just on the outside of the of the blue oval all the time So I've got my control key held down and I click and then you get a red dot and the red dot means you connect it You've formed the connector point. So we'll try again. There's another red one another red one So I'm gonna put a couple on some of them are put inside the shape working changes afterwards Okay, the one is inside the shape I can click on and I can delete There's one gone another one done at that one delete So I'm doing a click on and I'm deleting them another one there turns red delete Gonna put one at all more Just click correctly. There we go. That's better Maybe one more here. I don't like that one. That's just a bit too much inside the shape So I'm gonna click on it and I delete it as well. I want it just there It's just going inside the shape a little bit so you can always click on them and delete them I'll delete that one. I think I've got enough. I've got enough units to get get me going So I've got more now, so if I look around I got one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten eleven twelve thirty. I got fifteen of them now so that's plenty for the shapes that I've got as soon as you've finished with the Connection point To you got to go back to your mouse pull my mouse pointer tool to turn me to get your mouse back So point the tool we'll get my mouse back now I can start I Can change the zoom to the standard zoom now, which is a whole page And now if I start pulling the Connectors I can see how many connect the points. I've got to choose from now So I can put one Here and I can move around a bit and I can just copy this This way we connect a couple of times to connect some more So I'll just do one or a couple more. So connect that to there It's one more Move to there Just get the shape back a bit move to there And you get the idea of how it's working. So this and Connectors connected the connector points after added extra extra connection points so this completes the video on adding connection points and also deleting one or two if they go out of sync and Do this effectively by changing this room make this room bigger You've got to go to the home tab turn the X on for the connection points when you've done that Hold your control key down and click on the outside of the edge of the shapes to actually get extra connected points But this completes the training video on connection points and adding more connection points to a Individual shape, but you can also do it for many many different shapes. 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