On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 20:42, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> In Writer, when inserting a new table it takes the width of the page. > > By default, yes - but that can easily be modified. >
How to modify that Brian. I've gone through everything* but cannot find it. * http://xkcd.com/627/ >> I have three different situations that I cannot make my table fit: >> 1) Place the table in the upper right corner of the page and have the text >> flow around it. >> 2) Place the table in the vertical-middle of the page on the right side >> and have the text flow around it. >> 1) Place the table on the bottom of the page, full width. > > (Er, would that be "3"?!) Yes, that would be "3"! > I think tables behave like text, so other text > precedes or follows them, with the results that you see. > Well, not quite. Tables behave more like paragraphs seeing how I cannot get text to appear to the side (outside) of them. >> Right clicking the table and playing around with the context menu items >> yields me nothing. Dragging the margins of the table prevents text from >> flowing around it. Putting the table in a footer leaves a newline below the >> table. > > You can avoid all your problems, I think, by putting your tables in frames. > Frames can be manipulated in the ways that you need, specifically with > other text wrapping around them - and indeed in variety of ways. The frame > need have no border and need have no spacing from the contained table, so it > can be totally invisible in the final result. And to answer the point in > your subject: you can drag the completed table-within-frame around the page > easily as you need. > Thanks, Brian, this is exactly the solution that I need. However, that does leave an empty space below the table... > Oh, and that empty paragraph below a table: go to Format | Frame/Object... | > Type | Size | Height (or right-click | Frame... | Type | Size | Height) and > remove the tick from AutoSize. Now you can reduce the frame height to cover > this. > ...which you address here! > I trust this helps. > I does, and your help is always appreciated. Seriously, most of what I've learned about OOo I learned from you and Gary. Tell me, what do you know about PIV systems? :) -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
