Help removing headers

Greetings,

I used to have my resumes uploaded on Microsoft Word until I lost access to that. I am new to Libre Office and am trying to adjust. I would like to edit my resume pages, but I keep running into issues where I’m trying to edit a text box that is at the top of the page. When I try to click it however, I automatically click the “header” area and cannot access my text box. I tried removing the header by unselecting it from the “Format - Page Style” menu, but that does not change anything. I have also tried selecting the blue “Header (Default Page Style)” button, then deleting the header, but that makes no difference. Any advice?

It is likely that your resumes are .docx files. DOCX and ODF (the LO internal format) are quite different and can’t fully be converted to each other.You seem to hint that your resumes are not exclusively “text” but also contain “decorations” in the form of text boxes. This will cause major compatibility issues.

My best advice is to recreate your documents from scratch as .odt files, using native Writer features such as styles and [text] frames (if you really can’t design your document as “pure” text). But I warn you that frames are really, really (should be repeated seven times) difficult to tame.

Think deeply about your document architecture. Are “text boxes” necessary? Perhaps a table will give you better and simpler control on your elements. Table cells are complete sub-documents by themselves. Pay special attention to M$ Word workflow: it encourages direct formatting because of lack of adequate features/primitives. Writer is different from Word. Try to adopt the appropriate approach from the beginning, i.e. styling.

To spare you some pain, you can “import” your existing text by copying from your resume and pasting it as unformatted in the new document. Then apply styles to format it.

Before diving into the task, I highly recommend you read at least the Writer Guide and also the excellent Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LO, available from the same link after pressing the “More” button and scrolling down.

There is a simple way to select /delete objects and is using the navigator.
Once the object is selected in the browser you can press Del to delete the object
(it works in most cases) or double click takes you to it situation in the document.

  • But the recomendation is that you save and work with LibreOffice file format (.odt for Writer)

Try with the Navigator (F5).
Also can select another object, then use Tab to jump to next objects.