https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163601

--- Comment #15 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #14)
> And how exactly? You have made several comments in this report, yet not once
> have you described the actual failure scenario.

So, I open a document someone sent me, which has a frame. I see the frame as a
red triangle near its right edge pointing right, and understand that there's a
problem to the right, or on the right edge, of the frame. Remembering what
these arrows mean elsewhere (slide presentation software, Calc overflow
indication) I conclude that there must be too many characters to fit the frame,
and they must be overflowing. So, I delete some characters - but there don't
seem to be that many; it all seems to fit nicely in the frame - and I am
dumbfound. If I delete _everything_, the triangle goes away, but if I paste it
back, it comes back. Now I start to think maybe the triangle is attached to the
content somehow and was intentionally put in; after all, it's rather
out-of-line in its garish style with, say, the Calc triangle indicators. But of
course, I can't select it. Perhaps it's anchored to one of the letters? I try
and delete individual letters, or even pairs, but to no avail.

If I had seen a triangle facing _downwards_, I would at least have had a
fighting chance to figure out what's going on. If there had been, oh, a tooltip
or something, that could have helped me. But - nothing but the red arrowhead
point my attention to the right of the frame.


This is inspired by the related bug 162382 (although there I was actually
worried about DOC-vs-DOCX import behavior).

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