Hi All, I am starting to use OOo Writer to do some documentation for training manuals. I used M§-Word till now quit expensively for that. It worked well, till the documents became too large.
I work mainly with two and three column tables and put text in the left column and screen-shots & graphics in the right column. The graphics are 'anchored to character' without wrapping into a table cell. So text and graphics move together when edits are done above. (side question: can this graphic anchor be set to 'character' in stead of 'paragraph' as standard somewhere?) Some callout Drawings (like comic balloons) are then used to mark something transparently with the pointing part stretching from one cell into another cell of the table. It is anchored to the text in the text (left hand) cell. Sometimes when I am changing the attributes of a single and marked callout from anchoring to the standard 'Paragraph' to the 'Character' mode, all the callout graphics loose all position formatting on the page I am working on. Besides that the graphics inside the tables also loose their anchors, and all move to the top of the page; i.e. anchoring to the page for all graphics. I can readjust them again by re-anchoring; but it wastes a lot of time. The graphics in the tables also 'Arrange' to the front and all the OOo Drawing-generated graphics 'Arrange' to the back. This 'fortunately' occur only on the actual page I am working on. The same behaviour also happens when we sometimes move some graphics around the table cells. After quite a few such disasters, suffered by both me and a colleague, we need some solution to stop redoing some pages time and time again. I am using OOo 2.1 (openSUSE 10.2, Updated on 30.3.2007 from openSUSE X86_64) and my colleague uses OOo 2.0 (update three weeks ago on a Novell Boxed SUSE 10.1 X86_64). We have exactly the same problem on two different systems. TIA :-) Al --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
