Thanks for your response, Johnny. This time I had no problem creating the two columns where I wanted them.
But I don't know how to get my cursor to go into column 2. (I have a laptop and use the touchpad). Pat On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > 2013/5/5 Patricia Hickin <[email protected]>: > > Is this the place to get help with a text document? > > I am trying to insert a picture and put text to the right of the image. > I > > can put text above or below, but not beside the image. > > What did you try? I had no problems at all doing this. > > > > > Also I want to divide the page into two columns, beginning about 2 or 3 > > inches from the top, but instead it divided the entire page into two > > columns. > > > > > So, two questions: > > > > How to get text to the right of an image? > > > 1. Insert your image. > 2. Right click the image, click ”Image…” (or whatever it says; I run > OpenOffice in Swedish). > 3. Select the Text adjustment tab (I don't have a clue what its > English name is, just select one that seems to do what you want…). > 4. Select what you think will give you the result you want. > > Or: > 1. See 1 above. > 2. Right click the image, click Text adjustment (or whatever the > English name is), click one of the options that seem to do what you > want. > > > > and how to divide a page into two or more columns, beginning 2-3" from > the > > top? > > 1. Select the text that you want to have in two columns. > 2. Click Insert → Section (again, I'm not sure about the English name > of this option). > 3. Click the column tab of the new dialogue that pops up and edit the > settings to suit your needs. > > > > > Thanks, > > Pat > > > You're welcome… > Johnny Rosenberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
