[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 94223] Selection box for text box not shown

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94223

--- Comment #22 from David Bapst <dwbapst at gmail.com> ---
This bug is still happening. I'm on Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, with: 

LibreOffice Version: 6.3.2.2
Build ID: 1:6.3.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~lo1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

However! I think I found a workaround!! This works at least to provide outlines
to text boxes originally made in Microsoft Office Powerpoint, in files
converted to use in LibreOffice.

Attached find three screenshots. These are lecture slides. I am an instructor,
so I have many slides, originally made in powerpoint. The inability to select
text boxes by their borders, feeling around the slide for a cursor change, like
a man in a dark room trying to identify an elephant by touch alone, was a
little too tedious for me, so I sat and tried every command I could find.

I noticed that the text boxes from the original PPT had no border (see first
screenshot), and also (at some point) a tooltip mentioned they were a special
type of object. Hmmm, I thought. So I clicked around the Draw tab (I'm using
tabbed interface) until I found, in the Draw drop-down menu, the Break command
(see second screenshot).

Now, I know that that should be for breaking a shape up into its constituent
nodes and line segments. I can make an arrow and use break to convert the poor
arrow into a skeleton of itself.

But I use break on the Microsoft-created textbox, and it gains the magical blue
outline I wanted. (See third screenshot.) If I click away from the textbox and
come back, I can no longer return to the draw tab, but it seems to behave just
fine as a textbox.

So, it seems to have something to do with LibreOffice thinking some textboxes,
such as those originating from MS PPT, are more complex polygons, and the Break
command removes that property.

I hope this is helpful! This is my first entry to Bugzilla...

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