All,
I have a Word 2003 document that has a page-background graphic - it's actually in the page footer - that extends from the bottom of the page up to about the halfway point. Only the bottom three or four centimeters is actually useful; the rest is invisible/transparent, but the rectangular extent of the object is roughly half of my document page.. I don't have the original of this "footer" background graphic, only the embedded Wordified version. So I want to import this document into OOo ( version 2.3.0 currently installed on Windows XP). In OOo, the document looks pretty good, but attempting to click in the text anywhere in the bottom half of any page selects the "footer" graphic instead. If I want to get to text in the bottom half of any page, I have to click in the top half to get an insertion point, then navigate down to the desired point with arrow keys. This is a little tedious. If I select the object, "Format > Wrap > In background" is checked and is selectable (not grayed out)... if that means anything in this context. I tried "Format > Arrange > Send to back", but that had no effect - attempting to click in the visible page text instead selects the graphic object. The imported graphic, which was part of a footer in Word, and spent most of it's time grayed out, is instead just a big page element in OOo, and thus subject to being constantly tripped over. What should I be doing with these graphic elements? They don't have changeable text components - like a normal header or footer -- so once they are in place, I never really have to edit them. I'd like them to just be visible, but not accidentally selectable, sorta like a watermark, but not faded. Or sorta-like the way they were in Word... I could double-click the footer or use the menu to change views if I wanted to actually touch one of those graphic elements (which I never really did because they don't change...), or I could stay in the main view, never invoking footers, and thus never tripping over the graphics. If I was starting from scratch, I'm sure I'd do things differently, but this document is already constructed and just needs editing/updating every few months, so I don't want to re-invent the entire wheel in OOo if I don't need to. What's the best approach? By the way, I thought it was scary that I opened the document in OOo and double-clicked the page-bottom graphic thingie and it immediately opened.... Word 2003. Yikes. I don't think I like that OLE stuff invoking Word when I'm trying to escape from Word. Is there a setting I should adjust so that such formerly-Word graphic elements are opened by default with some other non-Microsoft handler? Is there something that I could do during the importing of the file to have those graphic elements come into OOo as a different kind of element/file-format/whatever?? Thanks for your time. Kevin in Ottawa, Canada The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.
