Gwynn Akin Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 It could be an inline object? Try Edit > Defaults > Revert to see if it goes away Alternatively, if you copy a text box to a new document does that grey box still appear? If yes, please save that test document and upload it to the forum Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwynn Akin Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwynn Akin Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwynn Akin Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 BTW, the Edit > Defaults > Revert had no effect on the gray box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I think the grey box is actually a Paragraph Decoration. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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