Text alignment issues in Impress

[Lorethian]

Hi there,
I’ve always formatted shapes with text inside of them in the following way:
First “title” line, center-aligned.
Second, and subsequent lines, left-aligned.

I took a break for June, and now when I’ve come back and started creating again, I can no longer do this line-by-line alignment.
First line, center aligned
Second, and subsequent lines, I try to left-align, but then it snaps the top line to the left. And then it’s all, like… weirdly aligned??

Is this a bug since the newest version, or is there some silly setting that I toggled somehow?

I’ve tried reinstalling, restarting in safe mode, etc.

Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 33e196637044ead23f5c3226cde09b47731f7e27
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

[LeroyG]

@Lorethian

Second, and subsequent lines

How do you start a new line? With Enter or Shift+Enter?
Can you share a one page .odp with a shape showing the issue? Thanks.
Don’t use Suggest a solution nor Answer but Comment (better if you can edit your question and upload the file there).

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Here is the file without images: Aligning.odp (48.0 KB)

[Lorethian]

Hey Leroy!
I’ve tried both strategies, but I traditionally use Enter

I’ve attached the single slide showcasing some of the problems, and some correct squares using the formatting that was okay in previous months.
… I can’t seem to attach it here, so here it is on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yk-0ZPkt1yWI6_MRi3wVepkWXnBXbzIi/view?usp=drive_link

[LeroyG]

@Lorethian

here it is

Access Denied.

[Lorethian]

Dang it Google!

I’ve given you access! It should work now

[LeroyG]

• Select the shape
• Choose menu Format - Text Box and Shape - Text Attributes*
• Set the Text Anchor to top center
  

* Also secondary click on the text and choose Text Attributes

[Lorethian]

Hmm, I’ve tried that strategy, and it hasn’t helped any. I’ve changed the anchor, I’ve kept the anchor the same, etc.

It defaults to the top center for me.
The problem isn’t so much with the first center line, it’s aligning left after the first line.

[Grantler]

@Lorethian @LeroyG
Impress: I can confirm the above mentioned irregular behaviour of text boxes and text frames (sometimes they can be regularly formatted). Same problem in Draw.

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Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:3) CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo2 Calc: threaded

[EarnestAl]

There is Bug 95175 - Impress: can’t change text alignment in text frame of specific ODP via Paragraph (can via Text Anchor or Clear Formatting) which appears to be fixed in 25.3.2 but not in 24.27.2.
Possibly incidentally fixed by fix for Bug 165261 - FILEOPEN PPTX Text in shape is left-aligned instead of being centered

As a workaround, it might be best to do separate text boxes and group with shape.