Created attachment 200879 [details] tip of the day 97/225 At "Tip of the day" 97/225, there are instructions how to draw text along path. But menu entry "Text Along Path" does not exist in the menu or the "shape and text" sub menu. I tried it with different types of shapes (curve, shape, ) - same results. I tried the same thing in "LibreOffice Draw": 1) the menu was different than mentioned in the tip 2) clicking "text along path" brought a dialog 3) the dialog doesn't math the tip 4) everything in the dialog was grayed out (disabled).
Confirmed. Text Along Path is in Format -> Text Along Path. in core/cui/inc/tipoftheday.hrc : { NC_("RID_CUI_TIPOFTHEDAY", "You can make text follow the shape of a curve. Draw the curve, double-click it, type the text, and choose Format ▸ Text Box and Shape ▸ Text along Path. Select one of the alignment options: Rotate, Upright, Slant Horizontal or Slant Vertical."), "", "", swriter},
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/28fb2aa2e3a13aecba50244fbf948623a905952c tdf#166660 - Text Along Path in ToD It will be available in 25.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.