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Chapter3:ManagingTextDocumentsWithWriter
EditingTextFrames
Selectatextframebyclickingononeofitsedges.Onceselected,ausercandraganddropto
changeitspositionbygrabbinganedgeandthusmovethewholeframe.Ifonedoesthesame
actionusingoneofthehandles,thesizeoftheframechanges.So,draggingahandleonone
ofthesidesenlargesorcompressesthetextframeinonedirectiononly,whereasdragginga
cornerhandleenlargesorreducesitintwodimensions.
Rightclickingwithinaselectedframepopupsthecontextmenu.Thoptionsinthismenu
allowonetomakefurtheradjustments.
Asseenintheabovegraphic,anumberofselectionscanbemade.Forexample,choose
Alignmentwhichpositionstheframerelativetootherframes,drawingobjects,graphicset
cetera.UsetheWrapsubmenutochooseifnormaltextshouldwraparoundtheframe,wrap
ononeofthesidesornotwrapatall.SelectingFrameinthecontextmenuisthesameas
choosingFormat>Framefromthemenubarandopensadialoguethatgivesaccessto
managingallpropertiesoftheframe.
Thecontentsandfunctionsavailablefrouseintextframesarethesameasintextdocuments
andcancontainpictures,multiplecolumns,tables,drawingsetcetera.
LinkingTextFrames
Severaltextframesmaybelinkedtoeachother“overdifferentpagesofadocument.Thetext
“automaticallyflowsfromonetothenext.
1.Inordertocreatealink,clicktheedgeoftheframetobelinked.Eighthandlesappear
aroundtheedges.
2.ClicktheLinkiconontheobjectbar.
3.Clicktheframethatistobelinked.
Whenalinkedframeisselected,anyexistinglinksareindicatedbyaconnectingline.
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