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

John -

I'm glad your problem has been identified. I'm curious about why it 
affect some paragraphs and not others. Have you checked what paragraph 
style is indicated at the left end of the Formatting toolbar (near the 
top of the LO window)? My guess is that, for historical reasons, you 
have a mix of different paragraph styles being used. It would be good to 
identify whether that is the case, because it can lead to 
other formatting inconsistencies, sometimes subtle.

If you open the Styles dialogue (View > Styles) and select Applied 
Styles from the drop-down menu at the bottom, you can immediately see a 
list of all the styles that are used in the document.

- Robert

On 2025-05-26 21:00, John Iliffe wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who replied to this request.
>
> Steve Edmonds was kind enough to take a look at the full document and he found out how to remove the
> extra text boxes.  He suggested that I could highlight any of the affected paragraphs and then edit
> the border style to set the border to no border.  Interestingly, when I did that to one paragraph
> they all went back to where they should have been.
>
> There were two odd features to this problem: first not all paragraphs were affected; second some
> bulleted lists had the list items boxed and some second level items (not all) were boxed again
> inside the unwanted box so I ended up with nested boxes.
>
> I must agree that in trying to fix it I was thinking inside a border myself because when the problem
> occurred I was trying to insert a text box I expected the problem to be related to text boxes and it
> was actually an errant paragraph style.  Why it only hit some and not all paragraphs and why
> bulleted lists were also hit in some cases remains a mystery (to me anyway!).
>
> I would like to give a general statement of what happened in case anyone else encounters something
> similar but frankly I don't understand either the cause or the fix so I have nothing of interest to
> say except it sure is nice to have folks who are willing to help.
>
> John
> ======
> On Sat, 2025-05-24 at 20:35 -0500, Michael Reich wrote:
> > 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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