Writer: Text box in shapes

Hi.
@vmiklos introduced a nice feature in LO25.2 that was not correctly detected for documentation purposed in Writer Guide and in the Help.

The feature allows to insert a text box inside a shape on a text document. All objects inside a text box are allowed (tables, paragraphs…).

To add a text box inside a shape

  1. Insert a shape in text,

  2. format the shape (color, borders…)

  3. Select the shape

  4. Open context menu select “Add text box”

  5. Fill the text box with contents

This feature is more than grouping a text box with a shape. When grouping objects, the Navigator still sees them as different objects, while the new shape + text box feature is just one object.

Location in Writer Guide for contents addition:
https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG252/WG2511-ImagesAndGraphics.html#toc48

Sources

Cheers
Olivier

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