[libreoffice-users] Unwanted Text Boxes all over the document - 60258 - John Iliffe <john.iliffe -AT- iliffe.ca>

It sounds like you may have unwittingly edited the paragraph style to add the box, and now all 
paragraphs with that same style have a box.  Take a look at your paragraph styles?  If that’s the 
case, Libreoffice didn’t malfunction, but complied with what you may have inadvertently done.


> f 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.  
>
> Some boxes are supposed to be there and were in the original that I was editing but most are not
> required at all.  Edit|Undo doesn't get rid of them and now I have saved the document so as not to
> lose the updates so I can't try that again.  
>
> The problem here is that I am updating a chapter of a book and I could pull it in from the 
> previous
> edition but then I would have to find and retype all the changes and there is no reference for 
> that.
> The chapter is 37 pages long and contains embedded graphics so I have to be careful what I change.
> In the end I would still need to insert the text box.
>
> To add insult to injury I'm on a deadline to get the next edition out.
>
> Has anyone any idea what might have happened?  Better yet how can I unbox all the previously
> existing  text without losing the text in the boxes?  It is possible that while typing I
> accidentally hit a control key but if so I don't know which.
>
> Info:   LO 24.8.6.2 (X86_64)
>       Fedora 41 
> Document is in .odt format but has been edited/converted many times in other word processors
> starting with Word Perfect 5!
>
> Any suggestions very much appreciated!
>
> John
> ======

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