Elizabeth, forwarding this email to the users list so others may help you as well.
Quoting Elizabeth Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I did not know anything about the program Openoffice when I asked for help (I > still know very little). I had just downloaded the program the day before. > I could not afford to buy a new MS Office program when mine went defunct. > > I did not ask about editing in the text boxes in my email, because I felt > that the anchors where preventing my doing so. I wanted to get rid of the > anchors, then I would be able to do the editing. > > Another person answered my email about anchors and simply said I could double > click on the text boxes to edit them, without me asking the question. I read > his email before yours, so I knew about editing the boxes when I answered > yours. > Microsoft Word does not fair well when it comes into Openoffice, I have had > nothing but problems trying to make all the text boxes look neat again, I > still have a lot to do as I am doing my Genealogy and have hundreds of text > boxes to straighten out. If I had not already spent years working on my > Family Tree, locating names, dates and places and putting the data into text > boxes in "Word," I would start over and do it completely in Openoffice. > > Sorry I was a bit uptight when I wrote you back. I was upset because I kept > (and still keep) on finding more problems to fix. I am very knowledgeable > with Microsoft Word and have much to learn about this "new program." > > Could you please tell me what the Red Flags mean? And why there are light > gray "frame boxes" inside my black line text boxes? They are squashing my > lettering and I do not need double lines on some text boxes and some that > have just a single black line. How can the inside frame box be removed? > > Please answer. > Thank you, Beth Hill > > > > > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:41:14 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected]> Subject: RE: [users] > Anchors> > Your question probably should have been "How do I edit text in > text boxes?"> then. I assumed you knew the common knowledge of double > clicking on text boxes> to edit them and your question had to do with anchors > specifically, but it> doesn't seem as though your question relates to anchors > much at all since they> certainly don't prevent you from editing text box > data.> > > > Quoting Elizabeth Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> > > Thank you. > You did not answer my question. Someone else simply told me to> > double > click on the text box, which does work. I know what Anchors can do,> > but I > cannot see why they are necessary.> >> > > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:36:14 > -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > To: [email protected]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [users] > Anchors> > Get rid of them? I'm not sure how they're> > preventing you from > editing data.> Anchors are there to help position> > elements. You can anchor > to page, paragraph,> as character, to character, or> > to frame. From the OOo > help files:> > To Page> Anchors the selected item to> > the current page.> To > Paragraph> Anchors the selected item to the current> > paragraph.> To > Character> Anchors the selected item to a character. This> > command is only > available for> graphic objects.> As Character> Anchors the> > selected item > as a character in the current text. If the height of> the> > selected item is > greater than the current font size, the height of the line>> > containing the > item is increased.> To Frame> Anchors the selected item to the> > surrounding > frame.> > If you're referring to anchors in Calc, you can> > show/hide them > via Tools >> Options > OpenOffice.org Calc > View.> > Quoting> > Elizabeth > Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> > > Anchors. How do I get rid of> > them? They > prevent me from editing the data> > that I have in text boxes.> >>> > > Thank > you,> >> > Beth Hill> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
