On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 23:09 +0000, Jelte Liebrand wrote: > But thats anchor and group once per diagram right? > The thing is, others _do_ muck with it alot. Its someone elses document, > that he updates weekly, and sends it out again... > > No worries, thats just the one document
You know that while at the hospital, I convinced the author of my grungy word doc to keep the anchoring and grouping. When she asked why I told her that it ensured that everyone to whom she sent it could see what was there rather than scattered over the page. Everntually, she did. Maybe you could try a bit of suasion, eh? > > /Cheers, > Jelte > > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:51 +0000, Jelte Liebrand wrote: > > > >>Hiya, > >> > >>Thanks for the info... Unfortunately the document i work with a lot (and > >>share) is about 80 pages long with A LOT of line drawings... not really > >>worth going through each time... > > > > > > You misinterpreted what I said. What you should have read is that you > > anchor and group once in OOo and export to doc. If the others don't muck > > with it too much, the anchors and grouping you do should hold. No > > guarantees, of course, but certainly worth doing once to see. > > > > > >>But thanks for the tip though, it should work for smaller documents > >> > >>/Cheers, > >>Jelte > >> > >>G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:48 +0000, Jelte Liebrand wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi there, > >>>> > >>>>I've been looking at moving over to OpenOffice a few times now and now > >>>>with 2.0 (beta) things like like i could actually use it! ;-) > >>>> > >>>>However, there's one thing that doesn't seem to work well. When I open a > >>>>document written in MS Word, it looks like any drawing that was made is > >>>>loaded with the wrap settings set to "wrap through". Rather than "no > >>>>wrap" which is how the drawing shows up in word. > >>>> > >>>>I get a lot of documents from others that have diagrams in them, and > >>>>they appear all over the place in OpenOffice. > >>>> > >>>>Is there a way to set OpenOffice to on default load drawings/diagrams as > >>>>'no wrap' ? > >>> > >>> > >>>Not when importing from MSO. Most of the problem that you see is the > >>>result of MSO not properly anchoring and/or grouping the > >>>graphics/objects. I can say this because I had to contend with this > >>>feature whilst working at one of the local hospitals. I discovered that > >>>if I anchor the graphics and export them back to MSO format they stayed > >>>put. SO in summary, this is the result of having to reverse engineer a > >>>proprietary format. > >>> > >>>Nonetheless if you take a few minutes to group any line drawings and re- > >>>anchoring them all will be well. As for wrapping, this does not seem to > >>>import well and I have not found an automated way to set wrapping > >>>universally. > >>> > >>>Hope this help some :-( -- Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
