Resizing text box, arrows, etc.

I should add that I made the text box shape "editable",got the red boxes, but still I couldn't adjust the size. Then, Pages crashed.

After another try, after making the text box editable, I still couldn't drag corner boxes to resize it. After a while, it took, I was able to resize it.

This is soooo frustrating!

Yes, the text boxes are floating.

Here's another bug, unless I'm missing something. The help page says:

"You can also draw a floating text box. Option-click Text Box in the toolbar, release the Option key, and drag the crosshair pointer across the document window to create a text box that’s the size you want."

When I do this, as I click the crosshair to drag it, the box immediately appears, I can drag to define its width, but the box extends downward to the end of the document. I can't just drag the crosshairs in a diagonal way to draw a box whose opposite corners are defined by the initial crosshair and the ending point.

I don't know, I'm beginning to think the Pages' design is counter intuitive to the way I think/work. It may be fine for others, but for me (and I've been working with computers since 1980, starting with Wordstar on an Imsai computer) Pages just doesn't feel right.

Message was edited by: pvonk

I'm using Pages 08.

Then there's something wrong with my system.

what you describe is what I expect - but it's not the way it works on my system. I can click outside the text box, then back inside to get the handles. When I click on a handle the double arrow cursor appears, but the moment I drag the mouse, the cursor goes back to normal and nothings happens (the text box is not resized).

Okay, I've done some experimenting and have found the situation where Pages displays bugs.

If I have pasted multiple pages from a text file into a Pages document (and the font is very small, like 7 pt. Courier, although I don't think the font/size is really important), and then try the Option-click trick mentioned above to get a text box (so I can just draw the box where I want it, at a size that I want), the box ends up automatically displaying with a height that spans several pages. In other words, I can't just drag corner to corner to create the box.

If the page is empty, then I can insert such a text box.

Also, when I add a text box to a page full of text, I have a hard time getting the corners to resize. Again, if the box is placed in an empty area, then I have to problems with resizing.