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> On 30 Jun 2015, at 7:01 am, Julian Thomas <j...@jt-mj.net> wrote: > > Impress is driving me crazy trying to select stuff and move the text cursor. > OS X Yosemite, OO 4.1.1. > > I see 3 different cursor shapes: Black arrow, IBeam, and hand. > > Trying to select a text box - e.g. the title box on a text slide is > difficult. Usually clicking on a corner does the job, if I have an arrow > cursor. It sometimes works with a hand, but this is difficult because it's > not obvious where in the hand image the cursor really is. Sometimes it's not > clear what clicking the hand is going to do:-( > > Clicking on text usually puts the cursor there if it's an iBeam, but > sometimes it seems to create a blued in box that I can't type into. That's caused by you keyboard, hitting the insert key will change the appearance of the iBeam / character selection. > > Is there a way to take more positive control over the cursor? OO seems to > roll the dice sometimes as to what kind of cursor I get and what happens when > I click on a text box. Sometimes I want to move or resize it; other times I > want do delete it. You are in control, so take that opportunity. > > Is there any illumination anywhere in the tutorials? > > tnx > > — > jt - j...@jt-mj.net > > A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human > history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch > Ratliffe > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
