Place the cursor in the empty line next to the picture, and select the Alignment. If manipulating pictures is important to you, you should read Haugland's instructions in full. Her solution was seconded by Jean Hollis Weber, another early writer about the application and currently the documentation lead for LibreOffice and ODF Authors. However, for those with more demanding requirements, the best solution was posted by Solveig Haugland, one of the first writers about, in 2009. In fact, one use claims to have had no troubles in ten years. If documents use few graphics, and formatting is kept simple, some users may have no trouble with pictures whatsoever. In both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, the handling of pictures seems to improve when the graphics cache is set to the maximum of 256 megabytes, the memory per object to 10 megabytes, and the number of objects to 40. I also suspect - but have not yet confirmed - that the general memory options play a role. In a recent post to the Apache OpenOffice user's list, Regina Henschel also suggested that two pictures should not be attached to one paragraph, and that the Follow text flow option on a picture (or frame's) Type tab should not be unchecked (which it is in the latest LibreOffice version). At other times, paragraph settings interfere with the picture settings. Often, too, users are unaware that adding a caption throws a frame around a graphic, and choose one when they need to control the other.

Power Users know that things are more likely to go wrong with the default anchor, To paragraph, and will replace it with As character instead. Over the years, some palliatives have been discovered. Inserting graphics is no problem, but try to anchor, align, or indent, and the picture changes position, sometimes by a matter of centimeters, but just as often jumping to a different place entirely on the page, leaving users frustrated and uncertain about the solution.

Positioning picture has been a problem ever since LibreOffice and OpenOffice were - and possibly before.

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