[grammatim[_2_]]

diehardii is writing a thesis, so presumably s/he doesn't have to pass
on an editable Word file to anyone, but a printout or a pdf, so
OpenOffice seems like the best solution: AIUI it can open a Word file,
so no work so far is lost, and the interface is quite similar, so it
won't be hard to master the additional features (imagine throwing in a
spinning globe!).

On Feb 1, 9:59*am, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Grammatim,

Re Open Office Writer (a counterpart to MS Word) - *There is indeed a choice when formatting a graphic in Writer to anchor it *to a
page and it does seem to work even with full page sized graphics in limited testing I tried with it. *If you then choose to 'Save
As' to a Microsoft Word document the feature is switched off and if edited in Word then it is affected by the Word 'rules' for
graphics positioning.

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* "grammatim" wrote in ...
Dare I suggest that you switch to FrameMaker? Any object can be set to
"Float," which means it goes either on the same page as its anchor or
at the top of the next page, whichever it will fit, and the text
simply flows around it. To be sure it goes on the following page, you
simply put the anchor lower on the previous page than the height of
the object.

InDesign is so inadequate for making books that I never even found out
whether it does that equally well, but it would have been an
intelligent feature for them to put in.

The OpenOffice manual indicates that you can position an image in a
specific place on a page, as well.
--

Bob *Buckland *?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

* *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*