I wanted to use this feature: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Shapes_can_have_a_TextBox however I realized that not all shapes in Writer are created equal :) This works: 1. Toolbar -> Standard shapes -> insert e.g. rectangle 2. Right click for context menu -> Insert Text Box 3. Now you can insert table, graph etc. into the shape This doesn't work: 1. Insert -> Shape -> Rectangle 2. Right click for context menu => no such context menu appears, complex content can't be inserted. Obviously this is some different type of rectangle :)
(In reply to Katarina Behrens (CIB) from comment #0) > Obviously this is some different type of rectangle :) It's about basic shapes vs. custom shapes. The code at [1] explicitly enable this feature only for custom shapes. IMHO it makes sense to use the same kind of shapes consistently across menubar/toolbars to avoid this confusion, as there are other features that are supported by custom shapes but not by basic shapes (e.g. 3D Extrusion - see Bug 85227). [1] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/uibase/shells/drawsh.cxx#501
Yes i remember someone mentioning that there were two types of shape controls in writer, though i cant remember who mentioned it and what the benefit of the first type was. Lets set this to NEW anyway. :D
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91097 ***