At 14:02 23/12/2007 -0700, Roz Katz wrote:
I've only just downloaded Opal Office and I'm trying to rotate a
picture in a document I want to create. I'd previously downloaded
that picture from MS Clipart. I don't see a ROTATE task option
anywhere on the task bar.
I cannot speak for Opal Office, only for OpenOffice. As far as I'm
aware, Opal Office is a rebranded version of OpenOffice. For future
reference, you can obtain OpenOffice free of charge from www.openoffice.org .
You don't say what sort of document you are creating. Is it a text
(Writer) document? If so, here are two suggestions:
In Writer, you can flip a picture horizontally or vertically. Use
the controls on the Picture toolbar, or right-click the picture and
go to Picture... | Picture, where you will also find the flip
facility. If you flip in both directions, you will have inverted the
picture, so this is a way of achieving that - if that happens to be
the particular rotation you need.
Otherwise:
o Start a new Draw document using File | New > | Drawing. (You can
discard this later.)
o Insert your picture there.
o Select the picture and go to Format | Position and Size... (or
right-click | Position and Size...) and the Rotation tab.
o Adjust the rotation angle.
o Copy the rotated picture and paste this into your Writer document.
If you prefer, you can rotate the picture in Draw manually, using the
Rotate button in the Effects bar within the Drawing toolbar. This
changes the selection markers from green to red. Grasp a corner
marker with the mouse and drag it to rotate the picture.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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