Position and Size

Specifies the size and the position of the selected image, frame, or OLE object on a page.

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From the menu bar:

Choose Format - Image - Properties - Position and Size tab.

Choose Format - Frame and Object - Properties - Position and Size tab.

Choose View - Styles - Frame Styles - open context menu New/Edit Style - Type tab.

Choose Insert - Frame - Frame - Position and Size tab.

From the context menu:

Choose Properties - Position and Size tab.

From the tabbed interface:

On the Image menu of the Image tab, choose Properties - Position and Size tab.

On the Object menu of the Object tab, choose Properties - Position and Size tab.

From the keyboard:

F4, then Position and Size tab.

From the status bar:

Click on the Selected Object Size area, Position and Size tab.


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āĻĒā§āϰāĻ¸ā§āĻĨ

Enter the width that you want for the selected object.

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Relative width relation

Decides what 100% width means: either text area (excluding margins) or the entire page (including margins).

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Enter the height that you want for the selected object.

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Relative height relation

Decides what 100% height means: either text area (excluding margins) or the entire page (including margins).

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Maintains the height and width ratio when you change the width or the height setting.

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AutoSize

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note

The AutoSize option is only available when you select a frame.


Protect

Specifies protection options for the selected item.

Contents

Prevents changes to the contents of the selected item.

You can still copy the contents of the selected item.

Position

Locks the position of the selected item in the current document.

Size

Locks the size of the selected item.

āύ⧋āĻ™ā§āĻ—āϰ

Specify the anchoring options for the selected object or frame. The anchor options are not available when you open the dialog from the Styles window.

āĻĒ⧃āĻˇā§āĻ āĻžāϝāĻŧ

Anchors the selection to the current page.

āĻ…āύ⧁āĻšā§āϛ⧇āĻĻ⧇

Anchors the selection to the current paragraph.

āĻ…āĻ•ā§āώāϰ⧇

Anchors the selection to a character. This is the default for images.

āĻ…āĻ•ā§āώāϰ⧇

Anchors the selection as character. The height of the current line is resized to match the height of the selection.

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āĻ…āύ⧁āĻ­ā§‚āĻŽāĻŋāĻ•

Select the horizontal alignment option for the object. The selection specifies the position of the object relative to the region or reference line selected in the to dropdown list. This option is not available if anchor as character is selected.

āĻāϰ āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻžāϰāĻž

Enter the amount of space to leave between the left edge of the selected object and the reference point that you select in the To box. This option is only available if you select "From Left" in the Horizontal box.

āĻĒā§āϰāϤāĻŋ

Select the region or reference line for the selected horizontal alignment option. The following options are available:

Be aware that the set of options available depend on the Anchor settings. Therefore, not all options listed above may be shown due to the current Anchor choice.

tip

You can see the result of the alignments options that you select in the Preview box.


āĻœā§‹ā§œ āĻĒ⧃āĻˇā§āĻ āĻžā§Ÿ āĻŽāĻŋāϰāϰ

Reverses the current horizontal alignment settings on even pages.

tip

You can also use the Image flip options to adjust the layout of objects on even and odd pages.


āωāĻ˛ā§āϞāĻŽā§āĻŦ

Select the vertical alignment option for the object. The selection specifies the position of the object relative to the region or reference line selected in the to dropdown list.

tip

You can see the result of the alignments options that you select in the Preview box.


āĻāϰ āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻžāϰāĻž

Enter the amount of space to leave from the top edge of the object to the region or reference line selected in the to dropdown list. This option is active only when the following combinations of Vertical and Anchor are selected. For these combinations, you can specify the amount of space to leave from:

Vertical

with Anchor

From top

Top edge of selected region.
Positive values move the object down, negative values up.

To page, To paragraph, To character or To frame

From bottom

Selected reference line.
Positive values move the object up, negative values down.

To character or As character


āĻĒā§āϰāϤāĻŋ

Select the region or reference line for the vertical alignment. The object can be positioned in relation to the following regions or reference lines:

Be aware that the set of options available depend on the Anchor settings. Therefore, not all options listed above may be shown due to the current Anchor choice.

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Keep inside text boundaries

Keeps the selected object within the layout boundaries of the text that the object is anchored to. To place the selected object anywhere in your document, do not select this option.

By default, the Keep inside text boundaries option is selected when you open a document that was created in a version of Writer older than OpenOffice.org 2.0. However, this option is not selected when you create a document or when you open a document in Microsoft Word format (*.doc).

Allow frame to split across pages

Allows the frame to continue on a next page when the content of the frame doesn't fit the current page anymore. Content around the frame will be wrapped on the last page.

By default, the Allow frame to split across pages option is disabled when you create a Text Frame in Writer. However, this option is selected when you open a document in Microsoft Word formats, containing floating tables.

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Displays a preview of the current selection.

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