I want to box sentences
I assume that “box sentences” means you want borders around sentences.
There are two cases:
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Sentence = paragraph (your paragraph contains a single sentence)
Design a custom paragraph style with a border. Settings in theBorderstab allow you to control the stroke type (continuous or dashed), its thickness, its colour and its distance to text (padding).
You can also do it with direct formatting but it you need to repeat this “decoration”, a dedicated paragraph style is more user-friendly. -
A sentence among others in a paragraph (only a part of the paragraph)
The principle is roughly the same, except you design a character style. You select first a sentence (mouse drag or triple-click), then you apply the dedicated character style.
Note that the look is particularly ugly if your sentence spans several lines. It might be better to use a light-coloured background (inAreabackground).
Also, only one paragraph style may applied anywhere. This prevents adding italics on a single word of the boxed sentence or else you must create many character styles with all the combinations of the attributes you intend to use. However, I didn’t experiment to see if the borders merge.
If your data is “tabular” or can be presented as a table, this is worth a try with only some cells having a border. However be aware that you’ll face formatting difficulties and will need to think about your table configuration. In addition, ther is no real “table style” and you’ll have to manually redo everything when inserting a new table.
In case your “boxed sentence” is not part of the main text flow, i.e. does not contribute to the argumentation, is a side annotation or a comment, you may put it in frame with a border. A frame style is handy to assign the same properties to all occurrences. But mastering frame anchor, wrap and positioning is not easy for newbies.
Never use text boxes. They are drawing objects which do not participate in the text flow. Therefore, depending on what you write inside, you may have (bad) “surprises” about the results. In addition, formatting possibilities inside text boxes are largely inferior to those in the main flow.
Select the text.
Choose Insert>Frame>Frame….
Alternatively, there are text boxes, tables, text border.
79712 HB Frame Boxes Tables Borders.odt (34,8 KB)