Description: It's tricky to open the "Text..." dialog for a shape. For me it only works when I edit the text of the shape and perform a right-click on a space or the cursor at the end of the text. I need the "Text..." menu (in Writer this is now called "Text Attributes" and is accessible much better) to change the "Spacing to borders". The more accessible way of changing the spacing to borders in Impress is to use the shape's option (right-click) "Edit Style...". However, this is not a good option in most cases, as it changes the current style for the whole document. That means the spacing to borders for all shapes using the same style change. This is not what people usually want. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Draw a shape 2. Add text to the shape 3. Try to open "Text..." menu by right-clicking on the shape/text. Actual Results: "Text..." option only appears if I right-click on a space or on the cursor at the end of the text. Expected Results: "Text..." option always appears when performing a right-click on the shape, no matter if I'm currently editing the text or not. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
The context menu was overloaded. Therefore some items have been removed. On the other hand LibreOffice had got the feature, that you can design your own context menu. So go to menu > Tools > Customize and there tab "Context Menu". Select the item "Shape" from the Menu field and then click on "Add Command" to extend your context menu with the item "Text". Ask on forum or mailing list, if you need help in this. For me it is a WONTFIX.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > The context menu was overloaded. Therefore some items have been removed. On > the other hand LibreOffice had got the feature, that you can design your own > context menu. > So go to menu > Tools > Customize and there tab "Context Menu". Select the > item "Shape" from the Menu field and then click on "Add Command" to extend > your context menu with the item "Text". Ask on forum or mailing list, if you > need help in this. > > For me it is a WONTFIX. yep, I agree.
Thank you for your explanation and suggestion. What I don't understand: If the context menu was overloaded, why has the option to modify a property of the selected shape been removed and at the same time an option to modify properties of a style that potentially applies to many shapes has been kept? It took me quite some time to figure out that LO even has an option to assign custom text properties that are not contained in a style. I think many LO users will not find this option, whether it is available by menu customization or not.