Newbie Question - Arrows in Illustrator CS4

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November 13, 2009
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Hi,

I'm new here and a bit of a newbie to Illustrator CS4 (migrating from CorelDraw X3). I'm trying to add an arrow to a line which was drawn using the line segment tool. I followed the steps in the online help which says to select the object (line segment), then go to Effect > Stylize -> Add Arrowheads. The only option I have in the Stylize menu is "Glowing Edges ..." Is it possible the line segment I drew is not considered an object?

Please help, this is driving me crazy.

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Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

There are two sections in the Effects menu. The top one is for Illustrator Effects and where you will find the Stylize>Add Arrowheads. You were looking in the bottom Photoshop Effects.

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

And, just so you know who you are dealing with: This is version 14 of a program that is over 20 years old. The developers knowingly put two identical menu items in one menu. I keep an “I’m With Stupid” T-shirt just for when I go for beers with Adobe.

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paleolith

Known Participant

Yeah, I know this is a few months old. Just wanted to say thanks for posting the answer, since I just spent about 45 minutes trying to figure this out, going down the same "glowing edges" garden path as the OP. I need one of those "I'm with stupid" t-shirts. At least I was able to find the answer. The Adobe help files of course were no help at all, and Adobe even makes it hard to search the forums (hey, I DON'T CARE about arrowheads in Flash, already), but I did find it. Thanks again.

Edward

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