Hi Cary,
This may be asking too much of a word processing program but...
Is there a way to place a bitmap picture in, say, the center of a
3-column page and have the text run-around the bitmap, assuming the
bitmap is alrger than one-column wide?
It always helps to mention the version of the software you're asking
about...
In general terms, the answer to your question is yes, this should be
possible. Select the picture, and look at the following dialog
boxes/settings. Note that you may need to "fiddle" a bit until you get
a feel for how this all combines.
1. Right click and choose the "Format picture" (or whatever) command
2. You should come into a dialog box with multiple tabs. You want the
Layout tab. Here, select a text flow format, such as "Square".
3. click "Advanced", and go to the "Picture Position" tab.
4. Deactivate "Move with text" to ensure the picture is formatted
relative to the page
5. Now look at the selection provided in the Horizontal and Vertical
sections. You should be able to choose centering the picture relative
to the page, the margins or the column in which its anchored.
Anchor: Pictures formatted with text flow MUST be associated with a
paragraph on the same page on which they appear - they're *anchored*
to that paragraph. They will ALWAYS appear on the same page as (the
beginning of) that paragraph; if editing pushes the paragraph to
another page, the picture will move, as well. If you format
horizontally relative to a column, and the paragraph moves to another
column, the picture will move horizontally, as well.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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