I created a letter in Writer using the Letter Template, and the address, subject etc. are in some kind of a box or frame that I cannot select or reformat (and holding down the control key does not help). There was an actual frame on the side with nothing in it, which I could select (and deleted because I saw no use for it), so it seems these things are something else.
Please tell me how I can select and reformat them.
I guess you are talking about Placeholders.
See help on Functions
| Type | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Placeholder | Inserts a placeholder field in the document, for example, for graphics. When you click a placeholder field in the document, you are prompted to insert the item that is missing. |
Click on a placeholder and fill in the information requested in the label.
I am referring to Modern business letter sans-serif template below
If you are using a LibreOffice template then you can modify the style. Given it is a letter then you should modify the Default Paragraph style Font and Font size and then the child styles, Sender, Addressee, Text Body, etc. will all pick up those two attributes keeping the appearance of your letter consistent.
If you want to shift the position of the Sender address then right click the Sender paragraph style, select Modify, in the Tab tab select and delete the existing tab position and then enter a new tab position.
If, instead, you want Sender address left aligned then just delete the tabs at the beginning of each line.
Curiously, that worked for the sender-address and address boxes, but not for the subject box: I cannot get anything but the usual text-specific contextual menu when I right-click on its border or anywhere else, and left- or control- clicking doesn’t select it either. If it is a “placeholder,” (while the other two, it seems are frames; don’t know why I couldn’t select them yesterday), then there is also one inside the return-address frame, which does not completely fill it, and I cannot select it, either.
Please provide more information about your template. Built-in Modern business [sans-]serif have no “subject box”. Where did you det your “Letter Template” from?