On Monday 29 January 2007 1:11 am, Bernard Bolch wrote:
> I am using OpenOffice 2.1 and finding that (it's generally
> outstanding, but ...) in a document of some 9 pages with a number
> of inserted graphics including a single drawing shown at the bottom
> of the attached page, one element of the drawing persistently
> refuses to stay in the place where I put it. I suspect that the
> drawing itself is inching its way up and down the page, but I
> haven't been able to confirm this.
>
> The element in question is the diagonal arrow on the right, which
> should be a symmetrical copy of the one on the left. I suspect that
> it was one of the last elements that I added to the diagram, but I
> can't be sure of that.
>
> If I open the document in MS Word, and ungroup the diagram,
> re-position the arrow where it should be, regroup it and save the
> document again, it stays where it should be when re-opened (under
> Word 97, at least). Under OpenOffice (2.1), every time I save and
> reopen the document after going through the same steps, the
> diagram's content "shifts" as shown.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bernard Bolch
Two things I would suggest. First, when you have a number of
elements that you want to stay together, you need to group them. That
way they will remain together.
Secondly, you might want to consider using a frame for you
graphics. Then anchor the graphics to the frame.
Dan
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