McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
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I'm setting out a series of instructions, each with either just a
sentence-or-two of text (the minority) or a sentence-or-two of text plus
a picture or a screen-capture to illustrate the step (this is the
majority situation).
I happen to like the visual boundary that a table cell provides, to
contain each step.
I want each step to be complete on a page. Two, or more, steps per page
is fine, but two-and-a-half or three-and-a-quarter steps per page are
not.
I don't want to just force a single step per page, because:
- it's supposed to be a small document - can't have the page-count
skyrocketing
- some steps are physically small and would be quite lonely on their
own private pages.... lotsa wasted real estate there, and the separation
would diminish the visual cohesiveness of a multi-step procedure.
If there's a better approach, I'm more than happy to consider it.
I've done lots of documents in FrameMaker and Word, but all my use of
OOo, so far, has been to import and update pre-existing docs. This is
the first one that I'm doing from scratch. In other words, I've been
exposed to only a limited corner of the OOo possibilities and
repertoire, and lack the context to think of alternate approaches that
might make more sense, considering the strengths of the tool.
Thank you.
- Kevin
I think you might get somewhere with frames, which could contain your
graphic (automatically sized when inserted, but modifiable) and the
associated text. That would keep them together, while still allowing
multiple steps per page when possible. The frame borders could be
visible or not, whatever you'd like. You could insert a frame in each
cell of your second table column (anchored as character, vertical
position Top, to Row seems to work best), with the table set to not
break rows across pages. In any case, the frame will not span pages, so
the graphic and text will stay together. If you select the first column
and turn on numbering (using the icon with the roman numerals, for
instance), the steps will automatically be numbered. (If you want to
restart numbering somewhere, you can right-click on the number.)
Hope this helps!
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