I'm designing a flyer for the guy who bought the store down the street. I'm
a Unix person, not a MS Word person. And no, I don't have any desktop
publishing software, sorry. I'm working with a template which has a
text-box border down the left side and I'd like to insert some clip-art of
produce - bananas, tomatoes, melons, since the store sells these things (in
season). Try as I might, I can't get the clip-art to fit in the left border
box; it keeps keep running under the text in the main box which features
store info and the Monday-Friday hot lunch menu. This is getting
frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Jill
--
I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.

Jill wrote:

> I'm designing a flyer for the guy who bought the store down the street.
> I'm a Unix person, not a MS Word person. And no, I don't have any desktop
> publishing software, sorry. I'm working with a template which has a
> text-box border down the left side and I'd like to insert some clip-art of
> produce - bananas, tomatoes, melons, since the store sells these things
> (in season). Try as I might, I can't get the clip-art to fit in the left
> border box; it keeps keep running under the text in the main box which
> features store info and the Monday-Friday hot lunch menu. This is getting
> frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks!

For each picture you want to put into the border, create a separate text box
and position it inside the border where you want it. Then insert the picture
into that text box.

Bob

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> I'm designing a flyer for the guy who bought the store down the street.
I'm
> a Unix person, not a MS Word person. And no, I don't have any desktop
> publishing software, sorry. I'm working with a template which has a
> text-box border down the left side and I'd like to insert some clip-art of
> produce - bananas, tomatoes, melons, since the store sells these things
(in
> season). Try as I might, I can't get the clip-art to fit in the left
border
> box; it keeps keep running under the text in the main box which features
> store info and the Monday-Friday hot lunch menu. This is getting
> frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> Jill
> --
> I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.
>
>

Jill, if you right click on the picture, you can change the formatting of
the text for it and it also allows you to position the picture anywhere on
the page. Then just create a text box under the picture.

kili

Jill,
Have you tried resizing the pictures ? Usually you can shrink an
image a bit without it looking too bad. If you dont have a program that
does this very well, then GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a
free download and works on both Windows and Unix. Go to www.gimp.org to
get it or read about it.

Other than that, you can also increase the size of the margin so
the text doesn't start until after the image. Also, templates can be
frustrating. Many times it is faster to do it yourself unless the
template is very close to what you want. Also note that many templates
use "tables" to keep things in place. Turn on the tables toolbar
(Tools->Customize->check the box for tables and borders).

Dean G.

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> I'm designing a flyer for the guy who bought the store down the street. I'm
> a Unix person, not a MS Word person. And no, I don't have any desktop
> publishing software, sorry. I'm working with a template which has a
> text-box border down the left side and I'd like to insert some clip-art of
> produce - bananas, tomatoes, melons, since the store sells these things (in
> season). Try as I might, I can't get the clip-art to fit in the left border
> box; it keeps keep running under the text in the main box which features
> store info and the Monday-Friday hot lunch menu. This is getting
> frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> Jill
> --
> I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.

Click on the picture to highlight it then put your cursor on the lower
right-hand corner of the clip art. then click and drag moving the cursor in a
diagonal motion - the corners will resize both the vertical and horizontal
together the top and side button will resize just the H or the V. You can also
click and drag the whole picture.

Dimitri

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 03:12:35 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

> I'm designing a flyer for the guy who bought the store down the street. I'm
> a Unix person, not a MS Word person. And no, I don't have any desktop
> publishing software, sorry. I'm working with a template which has a
> text-box border down the left side and I'd like to insert some clip-art of
> produce - bananas, tomatoes, melons, since the store sells these things (in
> season). Try as I might, I can't get the clip-art to fit in the left border
> box; it keeps keep running under the text in the main box which features
> store info and the Monday-Friday hot lunch menu. This is getting
> frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> Jill

Select your jpg
Right Click > Format Picture > Layout > In Front of Text
resize clip-art as necessary.

Follow up questions can be posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
The MVPs there are wonderful!

Email your template & clip-art to me and I'll play with it...
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