In the Form Controls help file it says: ---- To add a control to a document On the Form Controls toolbar, click the icon of the control that you want to add. In the document, drag to create the control. ---- Coming from being a long time windows user I was used to dragging a component from the component palate and th en clicking where I wanted it; then resizing it as a separate action. It took me ages and help from others before I realized that the location and sizing of the component was a single drag operation on the Worksheet. A small adjustment to the wording to clarify this would be helpful. Suggestion is: "In the document, click to locate the top left corner of the required location and drag to size the component as needed." This then makes more sense of the next sentence in the help file about square components.
Sounds good.
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Seth Chaiklin committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/122b2b34063444e185cafd039801b1ec4fd37b0e tdf#93739 clarify instructions about inserting form controls