Gwynn Akin

BTW, the Edit > Defaults > Revert had no effect on the gray box.

Oh my goodness, I opened a new document and put in a text box and it didn't have the dreaded gray box. I then copied that box into the old document I've been work on and to my amazement---I'm holding my breath---The awful box is gone and it disappeared on the earlier pages where it had appeared too. I can't understand what happened but I'm eternally grateful to you if I never see that box again. Thank you SO much. Kind regards, Dr. Akin

It reappears if I copy it to a new page in the same document. I'll try in a new document next and let you know. Thank you.

I have made 140 pages in an illustrated book that I've been working on for two years with little problems from publisher. I recently upgraded to affinity publisher 2.2.1 and now I am having a horrible time and am under a deadline. I am on a mac pro oS vs. 12.7.1 Every time I select the Text box to draw my columns on a page I get an extra small grey text box and that's the only place I can enter text. I also can fill the gray box with filler text, but I can't type into the regular columns for text. No matter when or where I try to draw a text box, I get the extra gray box. (See enclosed screen shot.) I also drew rectangles and converted them to text boxes and the dreaded gray box still appears. I have deleted the small gray box on the master and on individual pages repeatedly in the layers panel and it still comes back. The unwanted box also appears on pages I completed months ago. I've quit the app and restarted my computer many times and I can't get rid of it. I'm assuming that calling you directly would be very expensive for me. There is no place in my pull down menu to select that I'm de-linking this unwanted text box. Please, please help me, Kind regards, Dr. Akin