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- From: bo3b@ultramac.uucp (Bob Overkamp)
- Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:44:23 CDT
- Subject: Re: ClarisWorks: Graphics in text doc. Problem. Help!
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- Steve Klarer observes
- >I'm using ClarisWorks on a Powerbook 100. I've been working in a text
- >document and needed to add a graphic as well as a chart into the text.
- >Since the text is going to be quite long I thought it made sense to just
- >be in text mode and and the other stuff in, rather than work as in the
- >graphics environment with text frames.
- >
- >I used a spreadsheet frame to generate a chart. I had the chart on top of the
- >spreadsheet and grouped the two. So far --fine. I made the other graphic by
- >drawing the various objects and grouping them. The problem is that I can't
- >figure out how to make the text flow around them as I write. I thought that
- >each graphic would be treated as a single character line but the text just
- >seems to type right through it. I'm sure there's a very simple solution here
- >but I sure can't find it in the manual. Any ideas anyone?
- >
- >Also, a question re footnotes. Clarisworks always puts them at the bottom of
- >the page. It turns out that I have to use a standard scientific style for
- >this project which puts the note right in the text itself. Does anyone know
- >if this is possible?
- >
- Curmudgeon mode on.
- Here is more evidence to support the proposition that if someone recommends a
- Claris product to you, then you should thank them but immediately add their
- name to your list of people to ignore.
-