Thanks to all of you who replied to this thread. all of your answers were
useful in one way or another and those that I did not use, did in fact point
me to other aspects of OOo (styles, for example) which were useful for me to
learn or brush up on.
Once again - many thanks, James
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From: "James Elliott" <[email protected]>
To: "Users at OOo" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [users] Draw and Text Boxes.?
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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