Hello James, This does not solve your problem of text boxes but I recently discovered the usefullness of using Sections in setting out pages in writer for newsletters and other things. The advantage of sections over columns is that the columns apply to the whole page whereas a section can be inserted anywhere within the document, have as many columns within it as you want, and then distributes whatever is put into the section equally into the columns. Writer also allows inserting, resizing and cropping of photographs. I have not had much experience with text boxes as I use a Calc Spreadsheets for a lot of things that require setting out etc using the merge cells feature. Sections may be a help to some others. [email protected]
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James Elliott <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
