Harold Fuchs wrote: > On Friday, January 26, 2007 10:06 AM [GMT+1=CET], > mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 25 Jan 2007 at 13:13, NoOp wrote: >> >>> Marshall Feldman wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> In HTML, if one uses the background= attribute in the <body > tag, >>>> the background covers the entire page. Similarly, in MS Word, >>>> inserting a background covers the whole page. Yet in OO.o, >>>> inserting a background only fills up the writable area while beyond >>>> the margins the page remains backgroundless. How does one fix this? >> ... >>> When you have inserted the graphic, drag the edges to cover the full >>> page. Right click the graphic, set the wrap to background & anchor to >>> page & arrange send to back. Then move to the far right & click >>> outside of the graphic, this will put you back in text mode. >> >> The problem then is that I can't seem to move around within or select >> any text. Any mouse clicks within the page select the graphic, not >> text. It's messy having to resize the b/g picture and move it to one >> side every time I want to edit text. It's even messier having to put >> the same picture onto every page individually. OTOH using >> format|page|background won't fill the page, but at least I can edit >> the text! >> >> Incidentally, a related problem is how to have a single picture split >> over two adjacent pages in booklet format. But I think I may have >> mentioned this some months ago :-( >>> >>> More info/hints available in the Help|Openoffice.org|backgrounds >> >> Which isn't, I'm afraid, very helpful. >>
> > I haven't tried this but would using a watermark instead of a background > help? > Here is what I tried: - Created a new page style - PageBackground - Modifed the style to cover the entire page (8.5x11 in my case) - Added a graphic in "Background" & set it to cover the page (Area) - Applied the style to the page - _Once on the page_ I set the margins from the ruler The only problem with this, is that you can't modify the graphic as when you use a watermark frame style (transparency, brightness etc)... at least I couldn't figure out how to do it within OOo. With the watermark, I could only seem to get this to work as a frame. That can be done, but then all of the text is within the frame rather than on the page. Hopefully someone will come along who knows how to do this :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
