Annoying little plus sign on shapes

I am putting several shapes together in Pages for use in another program. I do a command-shift-4 screen shot, open the little PNG in Preview, save it as a jpeg, and load it into the other program.
I discovered I could make a shape editable so I could create new shapes. Cool. But then they get this doofy little plus sign on them. I do not want it in the jpeg. How do I get rid of it?

No text is in the shape. Say I want a quadrilateral, a non-rectangular, non-regular quadrilateral. I start with a Pages square. Then. Whoa! That's it. Even though I am not doing a text thing, Pages thinks I want to so it is warning me that my shape is too small. Let's fool Pages into being more cooperative...
I went into the shape and made some text and selected it and set the font size to 4. Then I deleted the text, since I didn't want it in the first place. Now the plus sign is gone and it looks like I want it to.
Thanks for the question that turned out to lead me to the fix.

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Pages treat table cells as a _*TEXT BOX*_
If those +*annoying little plus sign boxes*+ are popping up, do this to get rid of them:
1. Open Inspector
2. _*Select all*_ on your table
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FINALLY the boxes are gone!

Hej Fruhulda
Obviously you are one of the fortunate ones who has never had to deal with the dreaded little box with an X in it!
All of us here were seeing it all the time up until yesterday and it was driving us CRAZY!!
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suddenly you have to insert another table on the page
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Inside the cell with the text *a little box with an X in it appears* and will not go away.
If you are working with MANY cells in a table
You are looking at A LOT OF LITTLE BOXES with X's in them.
Suddenly you feel *SEA SICK* looking at all those little boxes
You read the entire iWork Manual line by line BUT cannot find anything to HELP
Your project is not a numbers candidate
You have been a mac user for YEARS and YEARS
You know your macs, you know your mac issues
WHAT TO DO
I am sure you can see the dilemma we were in!
Then all of us realized that this is similiar to a text box issue and cell padding issue from our Adobe CS suite programs and sure enough it WAS!!
That is basically the problem ALL of US were having.
So if our solution can help anyone - *WE ARE GLAD*
because they were probably getting *SEA SICK TOO* trying to get some work done
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I hope someone can help me resolve this issue. In a fillable document where texts are entered, there is always a little plus sign in the field/space where a little plus sign (field expander?) appears. When printing it out, it does not look too good. What's the way to remove this little plus sign? Thanks so much in advance for reading and taking the time to reply to my question.
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Little plus sign box

I'm using text boxes in layout format of pages...
some of the text boxes I have made small enough to only hold arrows as part of the pictorial diagram.
2 of them (and they print as it has happened to me before) have little plus box tabs and do not "disappear" with the regular outlines of the text boxes when you click out of them.
thanks for any help telling me how to "remove" these.

M,
Another way to state the problem that the + sign is trying to warn you about is this: "Not everything you put in the document is going to be visible on the screen or in a printout."
If you think you're disappointed now, wait until you ignore the + sign and someone asks where your conclusion went.
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> Hi Folks,
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cursor gives me
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