How do I unlock the blue box?

Your description isn't very helpful. From where we sit, we cannot tell whether you're looking at a frame, a graphic object, or a text object, whether that object is inline or floating, or if it's a placeholder object, or where it came from -- whether it's a template element or something you inserted. Take a look at the Pages User Guide in the Help menu and see if you can't give your problem description a little more focus.

Isn't it a rectangular shape like this one ?


It's a silly object.

To get it:

Insert a rectangular shape
set the frame to blue
set the background to white
insert the text
set the text to none.

As it it a shape, we can't insert a picture in it.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 20 mars 2009 11:05:52)

Dear Wintertown,

I believe that you are referring to master objects, or items you will see on every page. The way you change or modify them is quite simple. Select the blue box, select in pages, Format>Advanced move object to page. Make the necessary changes and bring the box back to the Master section, using Format>advance, move object to master section.

Hope this will help.

wintertown

Have you dragged in or copied and pasted this text from a web browser?

This is what a linked text box looks like that comes from a web page. Usually it contains an image which has the link on it but it can also contain a text box where the whole text box acts as a hotspot.

When you hover over it, does the cursor turn into a pointing hand and when you click on it does it open Safari and a web page?

Otherwise:

When you click on the edges or in the box do you see squares on the corners?

Peter

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Yvan

What are you talking about?

I'm talking of an object matching the OP's description 😉

There is a blue box around some of my paragraphs and not others. 
For the ones that have the blue box I cannot drag images into the middle. 
I have tried help, talked to my co-workers, even cycled thru the inspector
comparing text with boxes as text without. 
What's going on? Can I turn them off?

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 31 mars 2009 20:57:26)

1) I have the same problem
2) I'm startled at how few responders were actually responding to your question
3) The answer is that the blue box goes around text that, at some point, Pages thought (probably correctly) was a hyperlink.
4) Headache comes because, when you go to the link inspector and click the checkbox that says "Make all hyperlinks inactive", this does NOT make PAGES think the text is no longer a link. It only makes the link inactive.
5) To make the link go away completely, you need to select the text in the blue rectangle, go to the hyperlink inspector, and now uncheck the checkbox that says "Enable as hyperlink". Voilá! The blue rectangle goes away.
6) Apologies for the snottiness in the first two lines.

Hope this helps.

Hi Wintertown,

Could you please describe the border of your blue box? Are there little objects in any of the corners, and if so, what color and are they solid or open? Also, are there any little objects in the middle of the sides, and if so could you describe them?

All the iWork objects have identifying characteristics when they're selected that tell us about their properties.

Best regards,

Jerry

wintertown is not responding to clarify unfortunately.

If it is in fact a linked box from a web page it is easy enough to run it through a TextEdit plain text document to remove the links and formatting and bring it back into Pages.

You should always clean up text before bringing it into any document.

Peter

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
You were hardly being helpful and what is it with "As it it a shape, we can't insert a picture in it", which is not true.

You are right, when the program is in a normal state.

The day I responded, it appears that it was in an odd one because I tested before responding !

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 2 avril 2009 12:21:58)

Peter,

I don't know exactly what the OP's blue box is, so I couldn't say. I have tried it on links in downloaded pages from the internet. One click, they're all plain text! (And black with no underline!)

Walt

Walt and Peter,

I'm guessing that the box is a Table Cell, given the image-dropping description. While you can insert an image in a table cell, I don't think you can so easily drag and drop to one.

Jerry

Jerry,

I just created a single table cell and it doesn’t have the blue box; it’s black. And I was able to drag an image into it with no problem. And I don’t think it’s a link because the OP said the blue box was around a paragraph. I remain puzzled. I can’t recall ever encountering anything like that.

Walt

Hi Walt,

Well, I selected a bunch of content from this URL and pasted it into a Pages Doc. Here's the SS.



Click once and you get the object sizing handles. Click again and you highlight the cell - see the fill handle? Drag an image over the table and you can drop it there, but it doesn't go into the cell, it just sits on top.

See if you can confirm.

Jerry

Jerry,

At first all I had was a question mark, but clicking on it took me to your web page. There I saw the box with my post but it did not respond to clicking on it. When I came back to this site the box was displayed, but again no action ensued upon clicking. But, as I said, the image I tested inserting into a cell by dragging just sat on top of the cell, as you had said. But I was able to group it with the cell so it stayed in place when moving the cell.

Hope this clarifies my last post.

Walt

Walt,

Sorry about the link to the graphic not working. I had no idea since it works here. I wonder if others are having the same problem and if it's just a temporary Picasa glitch.

Please let me know if the link starts to work for you.

One more thing; if you create a single-cell table and get a black outline, if you click again, does the outline turn blue?

Jerry

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