Linux Journal: OOo Off the Wall: Getting in the Frame

“Frame styles are the least understood style type in
OpenOffice.org Writer. Many users get by without using them or even
knowing what they are. Doing so it easy for users, because
OpenOffice.org uses frame styles automatically. Users may position
frames, but most do not format them. For simple documents, ignoring
frames is a reasonable strategy. Frame styles have defaults that
are reasonable, if not always ideal, for most purposes.

“The more complex your documents, however, the more you should
know about how to use frame styles. The number of options available
are extensive enough that you can fine-tune a frame’s look and
behavior almost as much as you can in a desktop publishing program.
You even can add blank frames (also called text frames) and arrange
them so that text flows automatically from one frame to another.
This feature allows the automation of complicated layouts, such as
folded brochures or newsletters in which a story begins on one page
and ends on the next. Beyond a doubt, knowing how to format text
frames can give your document design an extra edge…”

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