On 09/25/2018 03:49 AM, DaveB wrote: > On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote: >> Today's daft question. >> >> Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer? >> >> If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful >> selection of options. >> >> Try the same on a text box and I get "<no selection possible>". >> >> It makes laying out a page (and I've just started on an order of >> service for a funeral) decidedly frustrating. >> >> (Nor for that matter do styles work in a text box. I fail to >> understand the issues here.) > Hi Mike, > > Not a daft question, but Draw might be a better choice for what you are > doing. To center align text boxes in Writer you need to first change the > anchoring. When you initially draw the text box it is, by default, > anchored to the paragraph, which allows the box to be manually > positioned anywhere on the page. Select "Anchor" from the right click > context menu and choose "As Character", then set the paragraph to be > center aligned. > > Hope this helps. > > Dave > > Wow, I just did this same thing, over the weekend. Dave is right on the money. Changing the anchor should do the trick.
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