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The process to obtain this is the following:

1) Insert the image into the document, then anchor it to the first paragraph. To

move the anchor, select the image and move it until the anchor symbol is at the

beginning of the paragraph. Do not worry about the position as that will be

fixed in the next step.

2) Align the image so that the left margin of the image is in line with the

paragraph indentation. This can be done with the mouse or using the advanced

settings. In the example, the image is placed 1 cm from the left margin.

3) Change the wrap to Page Wrap. It starts out OK; however, there is still too

little space between the image and the text. To correct it, access the Wrap

page of the Picture dialog box and set the gap between the image and text to

0.2 cm in the Right and Bottom boxes.

4) The last touch is to change the position so that the image is below the first line

of the paragraph. Again, you can use the mouse to drag the image or use the

advanced settings, which require a bit of trial and error. The line height used

in this guide—0.75 cm from the top margin of the paragraph—is a good value.

Example 2: simple contour wrapping in action

In this example we again apply page wrapping as in example 1, enabling this time the

contour option. We will work on an image and on a drawing object as the contour

option works slightly differently in the two cases.

Figure 272: Image and drawing object with contour wrapping

The example of Figure 272 has been built following the steps below, which you can

use to practice.

1) Create some text (a very quick way to do that is to use the dummy text

AutoText. That is, type DT and then press the F3 key).

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