Re: [libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

Hi

On 26/09/18 01:26, Tom Williams wrote:
> 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
You can also, on the text frame, right click > Position and size and 
centre to paragraph without anchoring to character.
Steve


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