In a document with a full page image header/footer inserted in header, when clicking in any area of the page it opens the image menu. When the document is created in LibreOffice, I add the image as background and don’t have this situation. But when someone send me a file,the situation occurs. Is there a way to disable this behavior or change it to open only when there was a double click.
OS: Linux Mint 21.1 x86_64
LibreOffice Version: 7.3.7.2
File Type: .docx
But when someone send me a file,the situation occurs
What file format did you get?
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OS: Linux Mint 21.1 x86_64
LibreOffice Version: 7.3.7.2
File Type: .docx
Any non-native document, e.g. .docx, requires conversion before being processed by LO. This conversion, depending on format and feature, usually leads to an approximation. For an better diagnostic, attach a 1-page original sample document with dummy text header/footer image. By “original” I mean a real M$ Word .docx, not one created by Writer.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/118#Edit_different_file_formats_in_LibreOffice
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Thank you very much.
As requested, I forward a .docx file created in MS Word 2016 and a converted version, made by the LibreOffice Conversion Wizard.
example_file.docx (68.8 KB)
example_file_converted.odt (99.2 KB)
I think your problem comes from the size of your background image. It is larger than the page and you scale it down to page size, meaning it now has exactly the same size as the page.
Initially, nothing is selected in your document. You can click in text to set the cursor to this location. However, if you click in a non-text area such as between paragraphs or in margins, you select the background image because it is present everywhere. Once the image is selected, its focus goes foreground and you can no longer select the text.
You must then disable background selection. For that, click anywhere outside the page within the document window, i.e. in the application background = gray area if you didn’t customise application colours. Once this is done, you can again click and select your text.
This behaviour is the same on the .docx and .odt versions of the document.
You can disable selection of the image but only temporarily because the docx format doesn’t support the setting.
Select the image, right-click it and select Properties in the Options tab under Protect, tick the boxes Contents, Position and Size. OK.
Click outside the page area to deselect and then try to select the image; you can only do so through the Navigator until you close the saved document. On opening it again the image can be selected by clicking again.