Positioning frames

There are two ways to position a frame:

Moving a frame with the mouse

  1. Click in a frame to make it active, so that the frame edges are visible.

  2. Click on the frame edge so that the eight resize boxes appear on the frame.

  3. Click anywhere on the frame edge, apart from the resize boxes, and drag the frame to a new location.

Note that you can drop the frame outside the margins.

Using the frames dialog

As well as being able to position a frame anywhere on the page, you can use the "Frames" page of the "Properties" dialog to set the position of a frame relative to the page, margin, column or current paragraph.

  1. Click in a frame to make it active.

  2. Right-click and select the Frames command from the shortcut menu (or select the Frames and Callouts command from the Format menu).

  3. Horizontal. Set the distance in the Position box and then specify what you want the position to be relative to in the Relative To box (that is, the distance from the left edge of the frame):

  1. Vertical. Set the distance in the Position box and then specify what you want the position to be relative to in the Relative To box (that is, the distance from the top edge of the frame:

See also:

Sizing frames

Setting the text offset to frames

Text flow around frames