Moving endpoint of freeform curve

How do you move the endpoint of a freeform curve?

This seems like it should be really simple but whenever I try with either the freeform tool or the pencil tool, it extends the curve rather than moving the endpoint.

3 Answers

With the spline tool, click and release on the endpoint to turn it purple (selected). THEN you can drag it to reposition it. Sometimes Visio refuses to turn the endpoints purple, however you can still tell when the endpoint is draggable because the cursor turns into a drag cursor (crossed arrows) when directly over the endpoint.

Have you tried selecting the curve using the Pointer tool? That should display only the endpoints and allow you to move them.

I have had the same problem with not being able to move the endpoint, or other points, to adjust a freeform drawing in Visio 2010. I tried the following, and it works. Use the (straight) line tool to draw a short line bisecting the freeform area you want to move. This short line will be your cutting line. Select the short line and the freeform shape, and activate the Trim function (a shape operation found on the Developer tab). Erase both segments of the cutting line. The part of your freeform drawing that you want to move/adjust will now be a freeform segment that is separable from the rest of the drawing. You can grab its endpoint and adjust/stretch/move it however you want. You can use this method to separate any part of a freeform drawing to adjust it. When finished, group the drawing together again to create a single freeform shape.