There were different paragraph styles in use. I have been caught out
similarly, I create operator manuals for our equipment drawing from a
number of component supplier manuals.
After copying and pasting various pieces of information from the
supplier manuals I sometimes found I had accumulated literally hundreds
of unwanted styles. I also found that if the name of a style of a
paragraph from a supplier document was the same as one of my styles then
my style settings would be overwritten by the suppliers style.
My technique now is to use an intermediary document to resolve style
issues before pasting into my manuals. Paste unformatted text doesn't
paste copied tables and diagrams so has limited use (although I have a
hotkey defined for it used for any text only copy/past). As an extra
safety measure I now use only my custom created and named styles in my
manuals avoiding the duplicate name issue and clearly identifying any
rogue styles that may have slipped in.
Steve
On 27/05/25 10:51 pm, Robert Funnell wrote:
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
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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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