Hello Andrew,
As far as I'm aware, this is default behaviour and you can't change it.
"ctrl+1" is the shortcut for the Pointer tool, which might help instead?
Best regards
John
John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk
"Andrew K" <AndrewK DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My frustration is that I rarely want to draw the same e.g. box multiple
> times
> -- I want the arrow pointer after I've drawn one shape.
>