How-To: Overview of frame style options - OpenOffice.org
- This screencast demonstrates the different frame style options that you can change when modifying or creating a frame style.
- To do this, we must have the "Styles and Formatting" window open. When it is, we have to click on the "Frame Styles" button to view the different frame styles.
- Next, to access the frame style options, we are right clicking on a frame style to bring up a context menu.
- Once it opens, we click on the option "Modify..."
- The frame style window should open. You can change the different options for frame styles in here.
- Currently the organizer tab is open. In this tab you can change the name of the style, its links with other styles, and sometimes its category. Also a short summary of some of the style's enabled options can be found below.
- Next, we'll look at the "Type" tab.
- Here, you can adjust the frame's size and position. It has precise settings for the width and height, as well as the horizontal and vertical positions of the frame.
- Next, let's look at the options tab.
- In this tab you can set some of the frame style's properties. Among them is the option if it can be seen when printed, editing options and the text direction.
- Next, we'll look at the "Wrap" tab.
- In this tab, you can adjust the settings on how text and other objects behave around the frame as well as the space in between them.
- There are also additional options here that lets you specify the frame's position in relation to other content.
- Next, is the background tab.
- Here you can set the background to have a specific color, pattern or image.
- Next, let's take a look at the borders tab.
- In this tab, you can set the shadow effects of the frame, its line style, as well as the line arrangement.
- Next, we are off to columns.
- In this tab, you can set how many columns are within the frame, the spacing in between them and the presence and appearance of a separator line.
- Lastly, we're taking a look at the "Macro" tab.
- In this tab you can set macroinstructions for the frame style. Here you can choose an event and assign macros from a list of them below.
- Great! That should end the overview for all the options available for frame styles.
- Congratulations! You have learned about the different frame style options.
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Overview of frame style options
This screencast gives an overview of the frame style
options that are available in OpenOffice.
You will learn:
- How to access the frame style options window.
- About the different options available for frame styles.
- About the size and position options for a frame style.
- About the property options for a frame style.
- About the wrapping options for a frame style.
- About the background options for a frame style.
- About the borders options for a frame style.
- About the column options for a frame style.
- About the options for Macros a frame style.
Applications
This tutorial procedure can be applied to the following OpenOffice.org modules.
Advanced topics
For advanced functionality with similar results see:
- Overview of character style options
- Overview of graphic style options
- Overview of list style options
- Overview of page style options
- Overview of paragraph style options
- Overview of presentation style options
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