Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Text Boxes all over the document

Thanks for the replies folks.

I'm not sure what is meant by "the Navigator"; assume the toolbar but I can't find anything that
will delete a text box other than trying to set its border to blank.  As I mentioned before, I don't
want to do this since the box would still be there and could might problems in some later edit.

So, I updated yesterday to Fedora 42 (current Fedora workstation) and this gave a new version of
LibreOffice.  [now 25.2.3.2 (x86_64)].  I still can't seem to get rid of these text boxes by any
action I can find.

I have posted a pdf of a page that is several pages ahead of where I was editing on out website in
case anyone wants to see what the problem is.  Note all the text box outlines here (1 left side and
3 right side.  There should be NO text boxes on this page and all of these appeared after I tried to
insert one several pages later in the document.  They couldn't (can't) be deleted by the edit|undo
function on the drop down from the toolbar.

        https://coaxpublications.ca/libre/bsg10-c02-p4xxxx.pdf

While I still need to edit this chapter, I no longer trust Libre Office Writer to get it right.  The
changes occurred in areas that I was not editing so any unexpected inserts may not be caught before
publication; I have decided to pull in the old backup and start again. 

That leads to the question:  I can type everything again and format it but I will still need to
insert a text box in the same place.  How do I go about this?  Assuming the new version of Libre
Office Writer has the same functionality, I will have to make the box stay on the page and I will
have to be able to paste text inside it, neither of which would work as expected last time.

I have found nothing in the help or on Google except to hit a character before releasing the left
mouse button.  

As an aside is this likely a reportable software or documentation error?

Thanks again.

John
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On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 18:11 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2025-05-21 12:09, John Iliffe wrote:
> > I'm not sure what I did or what is misconfigured but I am unable to back it out.
> > ...
> > There are many (dozens) of text boxes now spread though the document and I don't know how to get
> > rid
> > of them.  The preference seems to be for bulleted lists, of which there are many, to have each
> > list
> > item boxed but some paragraphs have been boxed too, sort of randomly.
>
> Have you used the Navigator to identify/edit/delete these boxes?

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