On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Set the image as background image of the page and set the page margins so > that the image is at the correct position. The "Border" tab of the page > style dialog has a "padding" section. There you can set an additional > distance between inner edge of the margin area of the page and start of the > text. This padding restricts the usable area for text. > I tried that, but there's something I don't quite follow and the borders idea looked great -until I opened the file with Word to see what it looked like. after that, it was completely messed up and I had to start all over.
Why check it with Word? Because that's what everyone else who will see this uses. LO is fabulous and Word is so-so, but so-so x millions of users vs. the paltry few who use LO takes the cake every time. (I wold have used the word "trump," but I'd rather not....) If i knew how to do this in Word, I would do that, but I'm just not a WP expert. > There exist no "best" way. > True. > Other ideas: > Anchor the image to the header, set it to wrap-through and sent it to > background. Then adapt the page margins. > Not quite sure what all that means, but I tried using the top and left sidebar as images, and the "left" sidebar refused to anchor on the left - when I moved it, it jumped to the right and refused to budge. > Set the image as background image of the page and set the page margins so > that the image is at the correct position. Do all your work in frames. For > text flow to next page use linked frames. > That was what I tried first. For some reason, when I pasted the copied text, it kept its own format and splattered all over the left side column. I appreciate the input, but I confess, after using LO since it came out and OO before that, I don't know it well enough for this kind of fancy work, and I don't have the time to set aside to learn all the nice features the Writer has. I just wrote up the doc as a straight text document with nice if boring formatting. It's easy to read and doesn't give me headaches. Maybe someday when I need to get fancier.... Thanks again. Sorry to have bothered the list. Mark -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
