A question on Text Boxes ...
I note, as I am sure all of you have, that if you draw a text box by
clicking on the icon and dragging the mouse around you page, once the text
exists in your document or slide, it will disappear, never to be recovered,
if you go away from it without first typing something into it ... i.e it
seems that empty text boxes cannot exist in OOo?
Usually it is not a problem: create the box; and type or insert the
contents into it before going off to do something else. However, it is
driving me nuts in Draw.
I like using Draw to format my newsletters because I can create columns
easily using text boxes, and Draw suits me extremely well in other ways,
like inserting, resizing, and cropping photos, for example - brilliant! -
who needs Photoshop or Gimp - LOL.
I have a 2-Column page Template, among others ... i.e. two columns (or Text
boxes) on a blank page. to keep the Text Boxes from disappearing, before
saving the page as a Template, I originally typed in some placeholder text.
this works well until, enthused with my writing, I get to the bottom of
column-1, half way through typing a sentence, move up to the top of the next
column, delete the placeholder text, and go to type the rest of the
sentence, and ... oops! ... the whole text box has disappeared, gone, along
with all my carefully selected margins ... poof! - gone!
Do any of you clever people with infinitely more knowledge than I, have any
suggestions?
Many thanks, James.
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