Or you can select whatever is in front and then Alt+Arrow it to one side until you can select and delete the offending graphic. Then Alt-Arrow the former selection back the same amount of Arrow-depressions. (Remember to count the first time around!)
-Niels > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf Of Lester C. Smalley > Sent: 3. januar 2006 13:12 > To: hedley.finger at myob.com; austechwriter at freelists.org; > framers at omsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: atw: Frame query > > FrameMaker's clipboard is only one object deep (at least it > is in the Window's versions, can't say for Macintosh) so > multiple cut operations will delete anything except the last > item sent to the clipboard via cut or copy. > > I find it far safer to simply select items in front of the > unwanted object via control-click and send them to the back, > repeating as necessary if there is more than one overlying > the target of my removal (e.g. the circle in this case). > > You can usually also grab the "background" object alone by > drag-selecting it (hold the left mouse button down and drag a > selection rectangle starting in a position such that you do > not enclose the text frame), and then either delete it, cut > it to the clipboard, or bring it to the front again. > > On Monday, January 02, 2006 10:30 PM, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote: > > | Jill: > | > | > If anyone is back at work yet - how can I get rid of a graphic I > have > | 'sent to back'. > | > In this case it is only a circle. I have looked up help > and couldn't > | find anything. > | > | A graphic exists in a context. On a page, the context is > the page's > | border, so that the graphic is in a z-ordinate or list from > front to > | back with everything else on that page. In an anchored frame, the > | graphic is in a front-to-back list with everything else in the > | anchored frame. > | > | Save a back up of the file. > | > | Ctrl-click each item that lies in front of the graphic item. > | Cut them to the clipboard. > | Click on the unwanted graphic and delete it. > | Select the context: in a page, click in the margin outside the text > | frame, in an anchored frame, Ctrl-click the border. > | > | It is important to select the context at this point because the x-y > | coordinates of the items on the clipboard are preserved and > applied to > | position them in their original locations provided they are pasted > | back into the context whence they were cut. > | > | Now paste from the clipboard. > | > | Hope this helps, > | Hedley > > - Lester > ------------------------------------------------------- > Lester C. Smalley Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com > Information Consultants, Inc. Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712 > Yorklyn, DE 19736 Web: www.infocon.com > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as NFA at maconomy.dk. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/nfa%40maconomy.dk > > Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
