Looks as if the magic word is "linking" -- and apparently the frame to flow
into has to be there and linked, but empty. See Help in Writer: Contents ->
Sections and Frames in Text Documents -> Inserting, Editing, and Linking
Text Frames.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin McLauchlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: [users] Background graphic bigger than text?
re: my request for a way to put a big, full-page image in the
background, then have text overlay it, where the text has
proper margins - I'd like to avoid setting page margins as
zero, to accommodate the image, then building all my paragraph
styles with indents to fake the margins (and that will get
tricky to fake top and bottom margins, won't it?).
I actually tried stuffing the text into a frame of the proper
size, but OOo doesn't seem to automatically create a new page
with frame for the text to flow.
My result was a page that looked the way I wanted, except
at the bottom of the text frame, the text just disappears
below the bottom edge of the frame. To my mind, it should
break just above the bottom of that frame and flow to a new
frame on a new page.
Since that did not happen automatically, I went looking in
the Help for how to do it. No luck. When I looked for "flow"
there was no entry. When I looked at "page", "frame" and
"text" there were lots of entries, non that addressed the
need.
Now, I know that OOo version 2.1 knows how to flow text
from frame to frame and page to page, but what do you call
that feature, so I can look it up?
How might I have broken it, and where should I look for
something to fix?
Thanks,
Kevin (unable to match what is a fairly simple 4-page doc in Word)
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