Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 13 May 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing? On 05/13/2013 03:23 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If it works. Use it as Ensign Harry Kim

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/13/2013 03:23 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If it works. Use it as Ensign Harry Kim said. I usually find it's better to Anchor to page rather than the default to paragraph although each seems to have scenarios that suit them better than the rest and all of them are plenty good enough to

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I use the left-right-centred buttons same as for text Recently i found the right-click Arrange and Align that give more options.  Regard from Tom :)  From: William Drago wdr...@suffolk.lib.ny.us To: LibreOffice List users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
When I highlight the drawing the text object menu disappears and is replaced by the drawing object menu. When I click View Tool Bars Text object, the text object tool bar does come back, but all of its buttons are ghosted. When I right-click the drawing the Alignment menu has one item in

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi William, William Drago schrieb: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how? Use the PositionSize dialog from its

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:27 12/05/2013 -0400, William Drago wrote: When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how? o Either select the drawing

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread anne-ology
Do you first position the mouse at the spot you desire the image to go?; at this point, all the menu items should be clickable, including the alignments. When at this point, 'paste' the image from the 'clipboard' to the document - well that works for me

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
Okay, the Position and Size feature does the trick. Thank you very much... -Bill On 5/12/2013 1:12 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi William, William Drago schrieb: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
...@suffolk.lib.ny.us To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013, 19:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing? Okay, the Position and Size feature does the trick. Thank you very much... -Bill On 5/12/2013 1:12 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi William, William

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I always anchor the image as character, then it can be manipulated as a character (so just center it as you would a line of text). On 05/12/2013 12:27 PM, William Drago wrote: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
Thanks for the suggestion, Peter, but that doesn't work either. I can anchor the image as character, but as soon as I select the image to center it the text object menu disappears and the image object menu replaces it. If I use Format from the menu bar the expected options for alignment are

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/12/2013 09:38 PM, William Drago wrote: ...I can anchor the image as character, but as soon as I select the image to center it the text object menu disappears and the image object menu replaces it. If I use Format from the menu bar the expected options for alignment are gone. You place