Connectors are essentially some of the shapes found within the Lines category of the Shapes gallery in PowerPoint 2013. To understand why only some of these lines can work as connectors, we first need to understand what a connector is. A connector is a line that creates a link that joins two shapes or any other slide objects to create a relationship. These connectors are linked to the slide objects they are connected — this means that they move automatically when the linked objects are moved. That’s the reason why they are called “Smart connectors” — you’ll learn more about all the other smart things these connectors do in subsequent tutorials of this series.

