On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 01:36 -0700, Sarah B wrote:
> Appologies if I get this wrong as I am both new to OpenOffice and mailing 
> lists!
> 
> I have just started using Writer for my PhD thesis as Microsoft Word was 
> causing too many problems.  I have got to grips with Writer pretty quickly 
> and am really pleased with how it works (why didn't I find it long ago?!) but 
> there are a couple of things I want to do but can't seem to work out how.  I 
> have a lot of pictures (graphics/diagrams) etc pasted in to the document, I 
> want to be able to select two of them that sit side by side and align them 
> along their bottom edges for example. 
> 1.  I can't work out how to select more than one pasted picture (I have tried 
> dragging a box around them with the selection arrow in the draw menu and it 
> doesn't seem to work)
> 2.  Once I've selected them can I align them  to each other in this way?
> 
> I hope this makes sense, thanks very much for any help.
> 
> Sarah
> 

Sarah,

I think that you might want to place your picture in a frame and/or
table. Try the table idea first and frames second. For more info
see,
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf

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