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

John -

I tried to include an image of the Navigator button in my last message 
but it was blocked. In my LO Writer the icon is in the main menu bar; 
it's a circle with what is supposed to look like the floating needle in 
a compass 
(https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/ro/text/swriter/01/02110000.html). 
You can also find it in the View menu. In the Navigator dialogue window, 
you can right-click on a Frame and select 'Delete Frame'.

If the unwanted insertion of text boxes is actually a result of 
confusion (corruption) in your heavily edited document, then the 
incipient corruption may also be present in the previous version.

One possibility (not very pleasant with a complex document) is to do 
Edit > Select All, Edit > Copy, and paste everything into a new 
document. Or perhaps save the document as RTF or something, and use that 
as a basis for a new document. Either way you'd have a lot of 
reformatting to do.

You could try reporting this as a software bug, but you would need to be 
able to replicate it, preferably in a small subset of your document, for 
anyone to have a hope of diagnosing it.

- Robert

On 2025 May 23 15:05:08, John Iliffe wrote:
> 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
> ======
> 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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