Arrows lost standard tails (Pub 2007)

Several years ago, I created several documents with large arrows. We
had Office 2000 at the time. All of the arrows had standard tails:

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About a year ago, we "upgraded" to Office 2007. I just opened one of
those old documents. Now all of the arrows have diamond tails:

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If I click on the arrow icon, I find that the only options for either
end are plain, diamond, and circle.

How can I get the standard tail back?

You are right. I created an arrow in 2000, copied/pasted into 2007 and the arrow
lost its standard tail. It is a bug, one I doubt will be fixed.


--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Prof Wonmug" wrote in message
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Several years ago, I created several documents with large arrows. We
had Office 2000 at the time. All of the arrows had standard tails:

-------------

About a year ago, we "upgraded" to Office 2007. I just opened one of
those old documents. Now all of the arrows have diamond tails:

------------

If I click on the arrow icon, I find that the only options for either
end are plain, diamond, and circle.

How can I get the standard tail back?

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:11:27 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote:

You are right. I created an arrow in 2000, copied/pasted into 2007 and the arrow
lost its standard tail. It is a bug, one I doubt will be fixed.

Amazing. I figured it was some setting with the arrow style that I had
wrong. If this is the way it is, it's worse than a bug. It's
intentional. The tail didn't just get messed up in the conversion. The
tail code that used to indicate a standard tail has been changed to a
diamond shape and the standard tail has been removed from the choices.

What's going on with Publisher?

Prof Wonmug wrote:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:11:27 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote:

You are right. I created an arrow in 2000, copied/pasted into 2007 and the arrow
lost its standard tail. It is a bug, one I doubt will be fixed.

Amazing. I figured it was some setting with the arrow style that I had
wrong. If this is the way it is, it's worse than a bug. It's
intentional. The tail didn't just get messed up in the conversion. The
tail code that used to indicate a standard tail has been changed to a
diamond shape and the standard tail has been removed from the choices.

What's going on with Publisher?

Seven or so years ago, Publisher moved from its own ancient and
semi-proprietary object system to using the Microsoft Office Art that
had been in use in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel since 1997. Since this
system was not entirely compatible with the older system, some
formatting loss occurs when taking files from pre-2002 versions to
post-2002 versions. The most noticeable area is WordArt, but as you have
discovered it also affects other objects - the new(er) Office Art does
not support the "standard" arrowhead that you mention.

(Of course now Office has moved to a new revamped Office Art and left
Publisher behind again...)

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org