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Hello,



I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting 
existing
text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the 
trick,
but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a 
new
separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the
manual or tutorials. Any advice?



Julie

Hello,

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:58:10PM -0300, Julie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting existing
> text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick,
> but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a new
> separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the
> manual or tutorials. Any advice?

You may have to switch from the text-tool to the select-cursor (F1) to 
safely
select existing text instead of creating a new text-object.

I cannot see how the described behaviour would appear otherwise.

Best regards,

Lo

This happens to me when I don't exactly hover over the text.  The "hover
point" of your cursor should be over the actual text characters' "limbs"
- if it's over the blank space between characters or in the middle of
characters, it will select whatever's behind it (in this case, no text,
which starts a new text input).

JF

Thanks so much for your help.

Julie