At 17:01 29/06/2015 -0400, Julian Thomas 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.
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.
I don't claim to understand this (you might want to read that
again!), but I may be able to suggest a few pointers (no pun intended).
o I imagine that OpenOffice is not being random here, but that the
pointer you see depends on what you have just done - what state the
program is in, that is - or what is already under your mouse pointer
or already selected.
o Mouse behaviour is usually heavily configurable in your operating
system or mouse software. You may want to investigate if changing
settings there is any help.
o There are some settings within Impress that may be relevant. See
Tools | Options... | OpenOffice Impress | General | Text objects |
Allow quick editing and ...| Only text area selectable. These and
more are available on the Options toolbar (View | Toolbars | Options)
as Allow Quick Editing, Select Text Area Only, and Double-click to
edit Text. You may want to see if these can help.
Is there any illumination anywhere in the tutorials?
There is quite a bit about this buried in Chapter 3 of the Impress Guide.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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