Hi Len,
after advanced, what should settings be?
The settings should be whatever is needed for the effect you're trying to
achieve. I know that's vague, but there are so many possibilities that the
question doesn't mean much. It makes more sense to say "I want to to look
*this* way, now how do I get that?" Are you putting pictures in a magazine
article, a logo on a letterhead, clipart in a newsletter, an illustration in
a report,... ?
The dialog has two tabs, Text Wrapping and Picture Position. On the Text
Wrapping tab, select a wrapping style other than In Line With Text to enable
the other controls on both tabs.
The settings in the bottom half of the Text Wrapping tab are pretty
self-explanatory. You should play a bit with the ones in the Wrap Text
section to see how they behave when there's enough text around the picture
to show the wrapping boundaries. (If you use clip art or other graphics with
irregular boundaries, try Tight wrapping -- it's a lot of fun!)
On the Picture Position tab, the Horizontal and Vertical controls let you
align the picture to the margins or page edges, or at some specific distance
from them. If you drag the picture on the page, that position will be
reflected in this dialog as an absolute position. You can get finer position
control -- to the hundredth of an inch -- by typing numbers into the dialog
than by dragging, which helps in getting pictures aligned with each other.
Again, experiment to see what these settings do, so you'll know how they
behave when you want to use them for serious work.
The "Options" check boxes at the bottom control whether the picture moves
down the page as more text is added above it; whether the picture's anchor
is protected from being dragged from one paragraph to another; whether two
floating pictures will overlap or one will be forced out from under the
other; and whether the picture will stay inside a table or be forced outside
the table. These are fairly advanced options that you probably don't need to
worry about.
