This is a small tip but it really helped me on a recent project. Normally, OpenOffice Writer doesn’t allow you to wrap text around a table. So if you have a table on the left side of the page and text on the right side, it ends up looking like this:
This can be a problem when you’re translating something like an official document, and you need to reproduce the source formatting exactly.You can work around the problem by inserting your table into a frame (Insert>Frame) and making the frame’s border invisible (in the Frame dialog box, click the Borders tab and then set the border to None). Then, you get this:
It would be great if OpenOffice would just enable text flow around tables, but this seems like a fairly painless solution in the meantime!
A bit off topic, but my inner rascal got the better of me when I saw your title – and I wondered how we would have interpreted it thirty years ago (i.e. before the mass computer age).
I would really like to know how to wrap text around a table and be able to create more space between the text and the table. Having a hard time finding anything like that
Diana:
After inserting the frame, click on the frame to select it. Then double click the frame (not the text inside the frame) to edit the properties. One property is “Wrap” which lets you decide how to wrap surrounding text and how much space to leave between the frame and the outside text.