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Using Connectors. Whenever you are working with AutoShapes, there may be situations where you want to connect different shapes together, and there are a couple of ways you can do this. The easiest way to do it is to use an AutoShapes feature called simply connectors and if you look on this menu option, what you have are straight connectors, arrow connectors, elbow connectors, curve connectors and so forth. If you select one of these and simply drag, you create the connector and you let go. As you see, you have a placeholder option on each side and you can grab it and drag it around however you may need to adjust it. Let me give you a couple of other examples here. Now an elbow connector, as you might imagine, creates an elbow. Now the good news about it is once you create the shape, you can still move it however you want. For example, if I want to reverse it, I can; I just grab the full top green dot and pull it over here and now I have it from the other direction. There are also some that are more free form and you can use those any way that you want to and, again, once you create them, you can still grab them and move them around to wherever it is useful to you, as you can see here. How do you actually use connectors? Well, the only purpose of them, again, is to connect something together, and let us create a new slide and I want to give you an example. Let's say I create a box here and I also create one here and I want to create some instruction on each box, and then I want to use a connector to show audience members how to actually get from one point to the next. Well what you want to do then, is just grab whatever connector you think will work best. I am going to try this elbow connector, move up to the side, then move it down to however you want, there we go, and again it can be a little tricky depending on where you are trying to connect onto the box and how the two boxes are actually connected. Again if I want to move these, I can still slide it over some back and I can even go back and grab this dot and move it to a different location. For example, there. So it is completely up to you how you want to use them and remember to always go back and check and see exactly how things are going to look. As you can imagine, these are really helpful when you are trying to connect several different boxes together, or several different items, and show some kind of flow between different kinds of items. If you want to work with these free form ones, obviously these can be helpful, as well, but they can be a little trickier to work with. It will sort of free form, but it will try to adapt to whatever you are doing, so now it is of turning into sort of an arc shape. If I go on up here and try to connect on, it will give me something like this. So feel free to work with those, as you need to, but the overall point of a connector is to show a relationship from one item to the next. Again your best bet is going to be keep things as simple as possible and as easy to understand for your audience members.