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On Windows I don't have that extra handle; just the normal 4 handles attached to the Artboard bounding box. So I have no idea what that handle should do, or why it's there.

However, I suspect you have Lock Children enabled in the Move Tool's Context Toolbar. Uncheck that option, and the children should resize with the Artboard.

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@walt.farrell - genius! Thanks, that was it. You sure know this extra handle that considers Font sizes and stroke widths - very convenient to get a 100% 1:1 resize of what you see. I'm not sure but I think they are rather new in AD (Mac?...). However - lock children was the problem.

I think this "lock children" thing is not very elegant - one might have a look at Adobe XD does handle this (masks, so to say) - state of the art!

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20 minutes ago, Hens said:

Any vector shape can be used as textframe by clicking on it which makes it a textshape.
An artboard is a vector shape and can therefor be converted to a textshape. (see https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Text/shapeText.html )
That extra handle is part of the textframe and somehow also get's to be part of the artboard.(bug?)

Why is that a bug? You’ve pointed out that a text frame has that extra handle, and you’ve explained very clearly how an artboard can be converted to a text frame, so it seems logical that an artboard should acquire an extra handle when converted.

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