| English | German |
| assistant shape | Shape "Assistent" (In an organization chart, a shape that is placed below and connected to any other shape with an elbow connector. This shape is placed above any additional subordinate shapes for the particular superior shape it is attached to) |
| brush shape | Pinselform (The form of a brush) |
| Click and Type pointer shape | Zeigerform "Klicken und Eingeben" (A visual cue to indicate which formatting will be applied when you double-click: a left-aligned, centered, or right-aligned tab stop; a left indent; or left or right text wrapping) |
| closed shape | geschlossenes Shape (A shape that is surrounded by a continuous outline, such as a rectangle or circle) |
| Convert to Shape | In Shape konvertieren (A feature that enables Tablet PC users to convert an ink drawing to a standard OfficeArt shape, which can be formatted with colors and effects exactly as if it were inserted using "Insert Shape.") |
| coworker shape | Kollegen-Form (In an organization chart, a shape next to another shape that is connected to the same superior (or manager) shape) |
| 2-D shape | zweidimensionales Shape, 2D-Shape (A shape that has four selection handles that you can use to resize the shape proportionally) |
| 1-D shape | 1D-Shape, eindimensionales Shape (Either a straight line you draw or a shape that has a beginning point and ending point and can be glued between two shapes to connect them) |
| default shape | Standardform (A virtual shape that contains default formatting properties for new shapes. Each presentation contains one default shape) |
| diamond-shape relationship | rautenförmige Beziehung (A chain of attribute relationships that splits and rejoins but that contains no redundant relationships. For example, Day ->Month ->Year and Day ->Quarter ->Year have the same start and end points, but do not have any common relationships) |
| event shape | Ereignisform (ssn) |
| master shape | Master-Shape (A shape on a stencil that you use repeatedly to create drawings. When you drag a shape from a stencil onto the drawing page, the shape becomes an instance of that master) |
| open shape | offenes Shape (A shape such as a line, arc, or zigzag. You can format an open shape with line patterns and ends, such as by changing a solid line to a dashed line and adding an arrow to one end) |
| placeable shape | platzierbares Shape (A 2-D shape that is set to work with routable connectors and automatic layout. If a shape is set as placeable, a routable connector can detect and avoid crossing through it) |
| shape adaptation | Zeichenformanpassung (The process of training the recognizer to associate a specific shape with a given character. This "personalizes" a recognizer in that it learns to map a very specific shape to a character, rather than a whole set of shapes from various writers) |
| Shape Client | Zeichenformclient (The recognizer specific part of the shape trainer. Typically every recognizer claiming to support shape personalization must supply a Shape Client DLL. All the Microsoft Latin recognizers will all use the same Shape Client) |
| shape connector line | Formverbindung (A line used to link shapes and to determine their relative order in an orchestration) |
| shape data | Shape-Daten (The collection of custom properties for a shape) |
| shape-level validation | Überprüfung von Shapes und Verbindungen (The act of checking a visual workflow to ensure that the shapes and connections are valid) |
| Shape Manager | Zeichenform-Manager (The recognizer independent part of the shape trainer. It provides simple services to the Shape Client (EXE)) |
| Shape tool | Formenwerkzeug (A tool that allows you to draw a shape such as a rectangle, ellipse (circle), line, etc) |
| shape-to-shape connection | Shape-zu-Shape-Verbindung (A method of connecting shapes. The actual point of connection might change when you move the connected shapes. You make shape-to-shape connections by dragging a connector from the center of one shape to the center of another shape) |
| shape trainer | Zeichenformtrainer (A feature that helps improve the recognition of a user's handwriting by a process in which the user provides samples for shapes that are associated with given characters, in order to teach the recognizer which shapes should be recognized as which character) |
| simple shape | einfache Form (A shape in an orchestration that cannot be collapsed and cannot contain other shapes) |
| storyboard shape | Storyboard-Form (A shape or graphical object that has been added to a storyboard or to a storyboard shapes file) |
| subordinate shape | untergeordnete Form (In an organization chart, a shape that is placed below and connected to a superior (or manager) shape) |
| superior shape | übergeordnete Form (In an organization chart, a shape that is placed above and connected to any other shape, such as an employee (subordinate or coworker shape) or assistant shape) |
