Turn off creation of text on object path?

Help!  I don't know what I've done, but somehow I've 'turned on' the feature
that causes new text to follow the shape of the nearest object
(typically (for me) a rectangle).
I can find out how to enable this feature in several places,
using two different methods, but:
     a.  Both methods of creating text following an object path
	are supposed to be (if I understand what they're saying correctly)
	things that apply to the creation of a single text object,
	not forever thereafter.
     b.  Nowhere can I find help on how *avoid* doing this.
TIA.

JustMe wrote:
> Help!  I don't know what I've done, but somehow I've 'turned on' the
> feature that causes new text to follow the shape of the nearest object
> (typically (for me) a rectangle).
> I can find out how to enable this feature in several places,
> using two different methods, but:
>     a.  Both methods of creating text following an object path
> are supposed to be (if I understand what they're saying correctly)
> things that apply to the creation of a single text object,
> not forever thereafter.
>     b.  Nowhere can I find help on how *avoid* doing this.
> TIA.

If you hold down the alt key when positioning the text cursour It will not 
Pick a path

-- 
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much. 

Trev wrote:

> JustMe wrote:
>> Help!  I don't know what I've done, but somehow I've 'turned on' the
>> feature that causes new text to follow the shape of the nearest object
>> (typically (for me) a rectangle).
>
> If you hold down the alt key when positioning the text cursour It will not

> Pick a path

Sure enough!  Thank you.

However, I notice that this only works for the one time.
Following the shape of some object is still the "current default".
Any way to change it?

JustMe wrote:
> Trev wrote:
>
>> JustMe wrote:
>>> Help!  I don't know what I've done, but somehow I've 'turned
>>> on' the feature that causes new text to follow the shape of
>>> the nearest object (typically (for me) a rectangle).
>>
>> If you hold down the alt key when positioning the text
>> cursour It will not Pick a path
>
> Sure enough!  Thank you.
>
> However, I notice that this only works for the one time.
> Following the shape of some object is still the "current
> default". Any way to change it?

No. However, if the Alt key is too much trouble, try creating your 
text a few pixels away from the object, where the mouse pointer does 
not have the A) shape, then dragging the text into place.

Second way: turn off the visibility of the offending object while 
you enter your text.
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com 

Fred Hiltz wrote:
> JustMe wrote:
>> Trev wrote:
>>> If you hold down the alt key when positioning the text
>>> cursour It will not Pick a path
>> I notice that this only works for the one time.
>> Following the shape of some object is still the "current
>> default". Any way to change it?

> No. However, if the Alt key is too much trouble, try creating your 
> text a few pixels away from the object, where the mouse pointer does 
> not have the A) shape, then dragging the text into place.

:-)  This *probably* would have worked for me
had it not been for the fact that one of the rectangle objects
occupies nearly all of the image, leaving a border around the edge.
Had I thought to click in that border area, which was *outside* all objects,
I would have seen this work.


> Second way: turn off the visibility of the offending object while 
> you enter your text.

I *think* this may be another way of saying the same thing
as the solution I found in the meantime:

Select a raster layer
rather than the vector layer that contains all the vector objects.
One of the vector objects (e.g. one of my small rectangles) may or may not
remain highlighted, but as long as the parent vector layer is not selected,
I'm golden.

Ah-HA!  Further experimenting with your solution shows that while making the
specific object invisible doesn't help me (I still get a cursor with an 'A'
in the lower-right quadrant), making the entire layer invisible does give
me back the normal cursor;  the downside is that I lose the context of where
the text is supposed to go.  However, once I make the layer visible again,
the new text object remains the way it was created (i.e. not wrapped
around anything) and I can then move it to where I want it.

I would demonstrate, but I'm working on something that's company confidential.
At some point, maybe I can put together a little demo of these techniques.

Thanks again, Trev and Fred, for your three solutions.