Thanks for the replies folks.
I'm not sure what is meant by "the Navigator"; assume the toolbar but I can't
find anything that
will delete a text box other than trying to set its border to blank. As I
mentioned before, I don't
want to do this since the box would still be there and could might problems in
some later edit.
So, I updated yesterday to Fedora 42 (current Fedora workstation) and this gave
a new version of
LibreOffice. [now 25.2.3.2 (x86_64)]. I still can't seem to get rid of these
text boxes by any
action I can find.
I have posted a pdf of a page that is several pages ahead of where I was
editing on out website in
case anyone wants to see what the problem is. Note all the text box outlines
here (1 left side and
3 right side. There should be NO text boxes on this page and all of these
appeared after I tried to
insert one several pages later in the document. They couldn't (can't) be
deleted by the edit|undo
function on the drop down from the toolbar.
https://coaxpublications.ca/libre/bsg10-c02-p4xxxx.pdf
While I still need to edit this chapter, I no longer trust Libre Office Writer
to get it right. The
changes occurred in areas that I was not editing so any unexpected inserts may
not be caught before
publication; I have decided to pull in the old backup and start again.
That leads to the question: I can type everything again and format it but I
will still need to
insert a text box in the same place. How do I go about this? Assuming the new
version of Libre
Office Writer has the same functionality, I will have to make the box stay on
the page and I will
have to be able to paste text inside it, neither of which would work as
expected last time.
I have found nothing in the help or on Google except to hit a character before
releasing the left
mouse button.
As an aside is this likely a reportable software or documentation error?
Thanks again.
John
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On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 18:11 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2025-05-21 12:09, John Iliffe wrote:
> > I'm not sure what I did or what is misconfigured but I am unable to back it
> > out.
> > ...
> > There are many (dozens) of text boxes now spread though the document and I
> > don't know how to get
> > rid
> > of them. The preference seems to be for bulleted lists, of which there are
> > many, to have each
> > list
> > item boxed but some paragraphs have been boxed too, sort of randomly.
>
> Have you used the Navigator to identify/edit/delete these boxes?
>
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