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 > ====== -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
