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No arrows in Cycle Diagrams?

Nov 28, 2005 6:21AM PST

Hi there,

I wanted to insert this Cycle Diagram in my ppt slide, but all it does is give me this cycle w/o arrows to give direction of the cycle. I looked online and saw that some ppl can get this blue arrow as the default cycle diagram. How do I get this?

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Try AutoShapes, Block Arrows, Circular Arrow
Nov 28, 2005 9:19AM PST

Not sure what sort of arrow you mean, but if it is a circular arrow, where you determine how much of an arc, and what direction, etc, see the command:
AutoShapes>Block Arrows>Circular Arrow

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Cycle diagram
Nov 29, 2005 3:48AM PST

Actually I'm referring to when you create a diagram, in my case, the cycle diagram (others include radial, organizationl, etc).

When I create the cycle diagram, I don't see arrows indicating the direction of the cycle, all I get are these curved bars...

I checed the diagram style gallery, but all the variations only give different colours and not different shapes.

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Have you tried the various resets
Nov 29, 2005 7:46AM PST

I looked in the Help for "reset" and saw various resets for resetting to the original settings of various components.

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How?
Nov 29, 2005 9:49AM PST

Hmm I don't know how to do a reset...and I'm not sure if that's the problem...

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Like I said, I looked at the Help
Nov 30, 2005 4:27AM PST

I said: ''I looked in the Help for ''reset'' and saw various resets for resetting to the original settings of various components.''

Just use the PowerPoint Help and search for ''reset''
The instructions are there.

I may not be the problem, but it is supposed to get you back to the default settings. You won't know until you try, and it should not hurt anything by doing so, anyway.

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Link to correct arrows
Jan 22, 2006 2:22PM PST
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00552.htm

This is a harder way to get it than it should be. I don't know why I have my desktop defaulting to a diagram without arrowheads, and a laptop that does.

There should be a fix for the default. "Reset" did nothing for me that I could see.