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Permanently Changing Anchor Points on a Shape or Group of Shapes
How can one permanently alter the anchor points on a shape? Or is there some option to specify a consistent padding around shapes to push the anchor points out a little? Making the foll...
I think you are asking the wrong question. I think you really want to use custom line ends which provide an offset from the connection point.
In the following example, I created two custom line ends, Off Arrow and Off Line. I then applied the custom line ends to the connector line.
I have looked around the web for instructions, and the best I could find was the original ones I read many years ago at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa200997(v=office.10).aspx and http://blogs.msmvps.com/visio/2005/06/05/custom-line-ends/
This the ShapeSheet for my Off Arrow master (the trick was to use MoveTo segments to force the gap to stay)