yes much.....thanks! Kathy
~Be good to yourself - the relationship you have with yourself is the only one there is, ever was, or ever will be. --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [users] background and art To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 8:23 PM At 15:22 25/06/2009 -0700, Kathy Brown wrote: > I just downloaded OpenOffice, clicked on the gallery and got a bunch of > backgrounds, but how do I get the background to show up in the text area? o Right-click on the chosen background and go to Insert > | Background > | Page, or Insert > | Background > | Paragraph, as appropriate. > also, can I place art on the page? if so, how might I do that? Either o open the graphic in a suitable application, copy, and paste into Writer, or o go to Insert | Picture | From File... and browse to your graphic file. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org