Re: [libreoffice-users] Help hopeless

On 12/23/2017 05:54 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I've noticed over the last several releases that the help provided via
> the main menu bar is hopelessly inaccurate.
>
> E.g., today I wanted to set up a document with an image as the
> background.  The help search returned a section of backgrounds ->
> colors/images and it says to click on Format -> Page and select the
> Backgrounds tab.  There isn't one.  There is a Colors tab, but it's
> not clear what that really means.
>
> There have been other such inaccuracies I've seen in the past, though
> in my haste I've never documented them but just plowed ahead and
> blundered through.
>
> In a professional production, help menus should match the actual
> features of the application.  LibreOffice can (and should) do better.
>
> MR
Try Format > Page > Area > Bitmap.

You have to add your background image to the list of bitmaps shown on 
the left side.  The only problem, for me, is getting the image options 
the way I want it to look on the page. I use this a lot for making 
posters for events - both Letter size, Tabloid [11"x17"] size paper 
printed "in-house".

Does this help?


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