Brynn
Thanks for your reply. That was the tutorial and yes your suggestion worked! I've now found the setting in the Preferences that you mention and have turned it off for the time being

Druban
Thanks for your advice on the the status of an object.

regards
Simon

Hi there my first post on the Inkscape Forum. I'm hoping someone will help, cause it's probably so simple to do I'm trying to follow the 'Arrow' tutorial from The Inkscape Tutorials Weblog Drawing the square and rotating it is fine however, when i click the Object to Path function and then select th...