[libreoffice-users] Re: Tabs and tab stops in text boxes

Hi, Regina,

Yes, I'm in Writer.

Why am I using a text box?  Because there is this nice (or not so nice, 
depending on the icon set) icon in the toolbar area that says "Insert 
Text Box".  There's no indication the icon refers to a graphic object as 
opposed to a text object/frame.  Using the word "Text" logically implies 
you will be working with text, and not graphics.

Digging a little deeper...

Right click on the frame.  At the bottom of the context box, it says 
"Object", not "Frame".  And it really should say "Frame Properties" so 
the context box entry accurately describes what the link will take you to.

Occasionally, I have had the same dialog box come up when right clicking 
on a text box, but I can't reliably reproduce this.

Create a text frame the width of the page text area.  Height appears to 
be unimportant.  Put a border on the bottom of the frame.  (This is for 
reference only, so you can see what happens.)  Set the Vertical position 
for Bottom to the page text area.

And look at that...  There's a gap between the frame and the page 
margin.  :-)

There's a similar problem with an inserted image.  Do similar to the 
text frame, but position vertically to the top of the page area.  Add a 
caption below the image, and the image position is no longer next to the 
top margin of the page.

Now that you have a caption, the image position shifts away from the top 
margin.



FWIW, with what I'm currently creating in LO, if I was being paid to 
create documents similar to this, I would use, and recommend, a page 
layout program.  :-)  But this gets me what I need to know and learn, so 
I'm using LO.



On 10/2/17 4:08 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> are you working in Writer? Then I wonder, why you are working with a
> text box and not with a frame? A text box is a graphic object with a
> restricted edit engine.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina


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