Deleting a Hyperlinked Text-box
Hello,
I cannot find a way to delete a text-box (the default one) or remove the hyperlink. The strange think is the whole box even when I delete it's contents it remains an active hyperlink (little blue arrow at the bottom corner insists!)
to a file that I set as hyperlink for a text that lies outside this text-box.
Please help me!
dsp
dsp,
Is it possible you're trying to delete a default text box from a specific template page in the theme which you're using? Such text boxes are different than text boxes you create yourself. There's a small visual difference–a text box which is part of the template, when selected, has slightly gray corner markers. A regular text box you create has white corner markers when selected. This kind can be deleted from the page. The other kind cannot.
You mention you've copied your page for each new entry. Maybe start fresh by clicking the 'Add Page' button, from the choices presented, choose 'Blank'. Not 'Blog, My Albums, About Me' because some of them have the default text boxes that can't be deleted.
As far as the inability to make the hyperlink go away, I have no idea!
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Am I being really dim? I want to delete a text box from my document, I can't figure it out. It just says 'text' inside it. It doesn't show when I print the page, but it's bugging me. Thanks.
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