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Graphics Within WordPerfect Homepage for tips and tricks for |
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List of all my WordPerfect Tips Pages
Try Corel's Knowledge Base
(More help for WordPerfect or Quattro Pro)
Borders: Add A Border
Borders For Pages.....from .bmp formats
Default Graphic/Text box settings
Graphics, Graphics & more graphics: You do have more graphics than you think
Graphics stay with paragraph/text
Horizontal/Vertical Lines
Placement of Graphics
Rounded Corners on borders
Saving Graphics as .wpg
Text Box with no border for default
Watermarks
Format (or Insert), Watermark, Create, Image (button), pick any .wpg OK, Close
Press Graphics (or Insert, Line), Horizontal Line or Vertical line.
Click on the line and you can resize the line to longer, shorter, or wider
After clicking, you can right click and edit the line to different styles or colors.
To save any graphic as a .wpg for use in WordPerfect, First open the WP document that contains the graphics you want to save as a .wpg. Click once to select it. Choose File, Save As and select Selected Image and choose OK. When the dialog appears, name it being sure to type in .WPG as the extension. Choose OK.
Make sure that on your drop down Graphics menu, you have Drag To Create checked.
Or in newer version, click on Tools, Settings, Environment, Graphics (tab), then Enable the Drag To Create check box.
When you want a picture inserted, just click, hold, and drag the location and size you want used for your image.
Choose Image From File, then double click on the image you want to use.
Choose a graphic (or you can select a paragraph) and insert it into your document. Right click on the graphic and choose content. Be sure that the height and width are the same size. (The box must be a square in order to have rounded borders).
Choose Border/Fill. Select the
type of line you want to use. Choose Customize Style (or on the Advanced tab). Deselect the Square Corners check box or just put the check in the box for Rounded Corners.
In the Radius type a 3 and see if that's enough for you. If not...try a higher or lower number...depending on the amount of rounding you want.
Choose OK (mabe twice) to return to the document
Want your Text Box to default with no borders each time? Well all you have to do is change your defaults. Just follow these steps:
Click, Graphics (or Format), Graphics Styles, Text Box, Edit, Border/Fill, change to no border, OK, OK, Close
Now that was an easy one :-)
Like those pictures in the WordPerfect program but can't use them because they're .wpg? Well, yes you can.
Place the graphic on a document. Click on the graphic, press Ctrl+C. Now open MS Paint and press Ctrl+V. Then Click on File, Save As, name the graphic and it will be saved in the future as a copy in the bmp format for other programs to use.
This one is great when you frequently are using images that you always change the wrap to No Wrap so your text will go right through the picture.
How about that those top and bottom borders you never want on a text box? How about graphics default box set to display in the top of the box instead of the the center?
Remember this is something you only have to do once :)
Go to Graphics (or Format), Graphics Styles, Text, Edit (do these same steps again for changing the graphic box)
Choose Content, change the Vertical Position to Top, then OK.
Choose Border/Fill, change the Border Style to Single (or whatever you want as a default), then OK.
Make any other changes you want and choose OK, Close
Not to hard, was it? Now try it with the graphic boxes :)
You can add a border quite easily by using your border as a watermark.
Go to Format (or Insert), Watermark, and Create. On the watermark Toolbar, click on Image (or Insert, Graphic, From File). Find the file you want to use as a border and click on Insert (on the watermark Toolbar. If you want, you can choose the preview button on your Toolbar).
If the border is to light, you can change the shading by clicking on the Shading button on the watermark Toolbar and change. When you're done, select Close (on the watermark Toolbar). This will close the watermark document and insert it into your curent document you are working on.
You don't want just lines for a border. You can have graphics as borders. Go to Format (or Format, Page),
Border/Fill.
Change the Border Type to read Fancy. You'll see a thumbnail image of the
borders available.
But now you've found an image on your computer that you want to use. Well
you can use that too.
On a blank page, go to Insert, Graphics, From File and choose the image you want to make available as a border and choose Insert.
With the image still selected, choose File, Save, Selected Image, OK. Name the border (without the .bmp extension) and press Save.
Now when you go to Format, Border/Fill, Page, Fancy, you'll see your new selection available.
Caution: Not all *.bmp graphics make good borders
I like to have a rose on my labels. That's just what I like, okay? :) The long procedure: creating labels, inserting the picture on each label, resizing each picture, then making sure the picture is in the correct position on each label. Then typing my return address on each label. The short way: I can create one label all at once and have it show on all the labels at once.
How? By using the watermark feature, all you do is create one label and the rest just fall into place.
Here you go:
At a new document, go to Format, Labels. Select the size of labels you want to use and press Select. Change the view at which you look at the document to Full Page (View, Zoom, Full Page)
Now, hold down your Control key and hit the [enter] key as many times as you need to reach the end of the page.
Now go to Format, Watermark, Create. Click on the button Image (on your Feature Bar) and locate the picture you want to use and double-click on it. (If the image isn't fully on the label, you will need to go close and undo your watermark. Then change the margins of your labels and try again.)
Right click on the image and select Position. Change the Horizontal position from Left Margin to Left Edge Of Paper. Chang the Vertical position from Top Of Margin to Top Of Paper. Click OK. Right click on the image and select Size. Click on Maintain Proportions, then click OK.
On the feature bar, click on Shading. change the Shading to 100%, click OK.
Now that was the image.
For the Return Address, just click somewhere else in the window to deselect the image. Click on Graphics, Text Box and create a box as big as you want. A new window will open. Type in your return address. Don't forget, you can change the size and font of you address. Then click on Close on the Feature bar.
You can adjust the size of you image if you want. And when you're done adjusting, click on Close on the Feature Bar.
You will now see the return address appear on all of the labels at once.
Now, if you've found that you need to edit it, just click on Format, Watermark, do your changes,
and press Close when you're done.
Graphics stay with paragraph/text
If you place a graphic in your document, that graphic will not move from that position on the document. However, if you add a paragraph, or even a line above that graphic, your graphic will be out of place. How do you fix it? Just like this:
Place a picture where you want it to go. With the picture still selected, right-click and choose Wrap. Click in the circle for Square, and (on the right) Both Sides. Click OK. Now right-click again and choose Position. Change Attach Box To: from Page to Character and choose OK
Move your mouse to the position where you want to type and go for it.
The spacing between lines will be proportional to the size of the box. If you don't want such a big gap between lines, you need to change the Box Position dialog box at the bottom to remove the check mark next to Box Changes Text Line Height. You will need to do some configuring of spaces to work around the box. The wrapping Square/Both Sides will cease to function and will become a Wrap Through even though it doesn't show it.
You can attach it to a character or a paragraph. It's all up to you. Your choice according to your needs.
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