Thanks you *so* much for your suggestions -- they worked like a charm. I used the Table option, instead of the columns, and it looks great!
One more question. I am trying to add a border with a shadow, but the border will *not* appear! I go to Format > Page and click on the Borders tab, choose 5 pt, color green -- but nothing shows. If I add a shadow, the shadow shows but not the border. (I have tried with margins set at both .5" and .8".) Although I click OK at the end, when I return to the same formatting option, the 0.05pt option is selected instead of the 5.0. Any ideas?? Thanks again, Pat On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2013 20:41:22 -0400 > Patricia Hickin <pph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for your response, Johnny. This time I had no problem creating > the > > two columns where I wanted them. > > > > But I don't know how to get my cursor to go into column 2. (I have a > > laptop and use the touchpad). > > > > Pat > > > > > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg < > gurus.knu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > 2013/5/5 Patricia Hickin <pph...@gmail.com>: > > > > Is this the place to get help with a text document? > > > > I am trying to insert a picture and put text to the right of the > image. > > > I > > > > can put text above or below, but not beside the image. > > > > > > What did you try? I had no problems at all doing this. > > > > > > > > > > > Also I want to divide the page into two columns, beginning about 2 > or 3 > > > > inches from the top, but instead it divided the entire page into two > > > > columns. > > > > > > > > > > > So, two questions: > > > > > > > > How to get text to the right of an image? > > > > > > > > > 1. Insert your image. > > > 2. Right click the image, click ”Image…” (or whatever it says; I run > > > OpenOffice in Swedish). > > > 3. Select the Text adjustment tab (I don't have a clue what its > > > English name is, just select one that seems to do what you want…). > > > 4. Select what you think will give you the result you want. > > > > > > Or: > > > 1. See 1 above. > > > 2. Right click the image, click Text adjustment (or whatever the > > > English name is), click one of the options that seem to do what you > > > want. > > > > > > > > > > and how to divide a page into two or more columns, beginning 2-3" > from > > > the > > > > top? > > > > > > 1. Select the text that you want to have in two columns. > > > 2. Click Insert → Section (again, I'm not sure about the English name > > > of this option). > > > 3. Click the column tab of the new dialogue that pops up and edit the > > > settings to suit your needs. > > > > > > > > > > When you are setting up your section to use columns (or afterwards by > /Format /Section :Options) there is a checkbox to "evenly distribute > contents to all columns". If this is not what you want, uncheck this > option. Then when you have entered sufficient text in Column One or > position your cursor where you need the break, use /Insert /Break :Column > break and cursor will move to Column two. To exit the Column section use > Alt Enter. > > It may be that you do not need to use a Column section. Perhaps a two > column table will be what you need, to allow you enter text left and its > matching text right. > > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
