Bug 130923 - Text Box can only do simple text.
Summary: Text Box can only do simple text.
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Depends on: 163567
Blocks: Textbox
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Reported: 2020-02-25 10:17 UTC by greenblatt777
Modified: 2024-10-22 13:12 UTC (History)
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Description greenblatt777 2020-02-25 10:17:56 UTC 
Description:
Text Box does not have  bulleted/numbered/outline lists, nor paragraph indent.
Additionally, many of the insertable objects in Insert menu are grayed out.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert->Text Box, drag to size
2.Type words.
3. Try to do Format->Lists->Bulleted List.


Actual Results:
Bulleted List is grayed out.

Expected Results:
Text Boxes are a great way to put text exactly where you want it. Why not have all the formatting and objects that the plain page has?


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.2.8.2 (x64)
Build ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-02-25 17:58:08 UTC 
(In reply to greenblatt777 from comment #0)
> ... 
> Expected Results:
> Text Boxes are a great way to put text exactly where you want it. Why not
> have all the formatting and objects that the plain page has?
> 
> ...

Because 'Text Box' are Drawing objects. And we have META bug 103494 for enhancement of text and paragraph layouts of these draw objects.

Otherwise, the use you describe is already correctly handled with an inserted Frame with anchor set as needed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 111921 ***
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2024-10-03 19:08:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96706 ***
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-03 19:57:50 UTC 
I don't see how this can be a dupe bug 96706, which is only about paragraph styles, and only about the style the app chooses for the textbox.

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Because 'Text Box' are Drawing objects.

Well, that's also the case in Impress, and that doesn't prevent them from having bulleted and numbered lists.

I would confirm this...
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-22 13:12:20 UTC 
(In reply to greenblatt777 from comment #0)
> Text Box does not have  bulleted/numbered/outline lists, nor paragraph
> indent.

Text boxes in Writer support indentation.

> does not have  bulleted/numbered/outline lists ... Additionally, many 
> of the insertable objects in Insert menu are grayed out.

This stuff is still valid. THe thing is, these are multiple requests in one. I suggest making this bug a tracker for textbox capabilities available elsewhere (e.g. Impress) which are missing in Writer. Then, we could have issues like bug 163567 block this one.

What say you?