Blue text boxes with Xs

[gumbo23]

Can someone remind me what the blue Xs are on text boxes? 

I fiddled with some view options and now cannot move text boxes. 

Thanks

[GarryP]

The ‘X’es usually mean that the layer is locked, or it’s on a master page (and you’re not currently editing the master page).

[gumbo23]

18 minutes ago, GarryP said:

The ‘X’es usually mean that the layer is locked, or it’s on a master page (and you’re not currently editing the master page).

How can I unlock it?

[GarryP]

Find the layer in the Layers Panel and press the Toggle Lock icon to the right of the layer name.

[gumbo23]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Find the layer in the Layers Panel and press the Toggle Lock icon to the right of the layer name.

There is no lock there. 

[gumbo23]

1 minute ago, gumbo23 said:

There is no lock there. 

[Dan C]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

The ‘X’es usually mean that the layer is locked, or it’s on a master page (and you’re not currently editing the master page).

 

2 minutes ago, gumbo23 said:

Your screenshot shows that your Text Frame is part of a Master Page, applied to your document page. You will either need to delete the frame from the Master Page directly, or use Edit Detached to remove the Text Frame from the Master Page object on your document page.

You can find out more about this below -

Master Pages

Editing Master Pages

Detaching and linking Master Pages

I hope this clears things up

[gumbo23]

6 minutes ago, Dan C said:

 

Your screenshot shows that your Text Frame is part of a Master Page, applied to your document page. You will either need to delete the frame from the Master Page directly, or use Edit Detached to remove the Text Frame from the Master Page object on your document page.

You can find out more about this below -

Master Pages

Editing Master Pages

Detaching and linking Master Pages

I hope this clears things up

Thanks - but why would I delete a text frame from a Master Page, when the whole point is that any MP will have a text frame in it?

And how do I avoid running into this again?

Or - is it not supposed to matter that the text frame cannot be detached?

It's been a while, and I'm not sure if this is a v2 thing.

[Dan C]

Apologies - I had misread your initial post as delete and not move. 

If you wish to make any Transform changes to a Master Page object on a Document Page, you will need to do this in the Master Page itself, or using the Edit Detached option as referenced above.

This is the reason that the 'blue Xs' are shown on the Text Frame, to indicate it cannot currently be transformed in it's current state (ie part of a Master Page, or Locked).

[gumbo23]

1 hour ago, Dan C said:

Apologies - I had misread your initial post as delete and not move. 

If you wish to make any Transform changes to a Master Page object on a Document Page, you will need to do this in the Master Page itself, or using the Edit Detached option as referenced above.

This is the reason that the 'blue Xs' are shown on the Text Frame, to indicate it cannot currently be transformed in it's current state (ie part of a Master Page, or Locked).

So once the MP is created, you cannot transform the text box in the document itself? 

Has it always been this way? I feel like I've only noticed this a few times, but not all the time. 

Good to know - thanks Dan.

[Dan C]

No problem at all!

13 minutes ago, gumbo23 said:

So once the MP is created, you cannot transform the text box in the document itself? 

You can using the Edit Detached command as I've linked above - but not without enabling this feature first.
This is how Master Pages have always worked in Affinity Publisher