Re: [libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

On 09/25/2018 03:49 AM, DaveB wrote:
> On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote:
> > Today's daft question.
> >
> > Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer?
> >
> > If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful
> > selection of options.
> >
> > Try the same on a text box and I get "<no selection possible>".
> >
> > It makes laying out a page (and I've just started on an order of
> > service for a funeral) decidedly frustrating.
> >
> > (Nor for that matter do styles work in a text box. I fail to
> > understand the issues here.)
> Hi Mike,
>
> Not a daft question, but Draw might be a better choice for what you are
> doing. To center align text boxes in Writer you need to first change the
> anchoring. When you initially draw the text box it is, by default,
> anchored to the paragraph, which allows the box to be manually
> positioned anywhere on the page. Select "Anchor" from the right click
> context menu and choose "As Character", then set the paragraph to be
> center aligned.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave
Wow, I just did this same thing, over the weekend.  Dave is right on the
money.  Changing the anchor should do the trick.

Peace...

"The Other" Tom

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