atw: Frame query

[Niels Fanøe]

Or you can select whatever is in front and then Alt+Arrow it to one side until you can select and delete the offending graphic. Then Alt-Arrow the former selection back the same amount of Arrow-depressions. (Remember to count the first time around!)

-Niels  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] 
> On Behalf Of Lester C. Smalley
> Sent: 3. januar 2006 13:12
> To: hedley.finger at myob.com; austechwriter at freelists.org; 
> framers at omsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: atw: Frame query
> 
> FrameMaker's clipboard is only one object deep (at least it 
> is in the Window's versions, can't say for Macintosh) so 
> multiple cut operations will delete anything except the last 
> item sent to the clipboard via cut or copy.
> 
> I find it far safer to simply select items in front of the 
> unwanted object via control-click and send them to the back, 
> repeating as necessary if there is more than one overlying 
> the target of my removal (e.g. the circle in this case).
> 
> You can usually also grab the "background" object alone by 
> drag-selecting it (hold the left mouse button down and drag a 
> selection rectangle starting in a position such that you do 
> not enclose the text frame), and then either delete it, cut 
> it to the clipboard, or bring it to the front again.
>  
> On Monday, January 02, 2006 10:30 PM, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote:
> 
> | Jill:
> | 
> | > If anyone is back at work yet - how can I get rid of a graphic I
> have
> | 'sent to back'. 
> | > In this case it is only a circle. I have looked up help 
> and couldn't
> | find anything.
> | 
> | A graphic exists in a context.  On a page, the context is 
> the page's 
> | border, so that the graphic is in a z-ordinate or list from 
> front to 
> | back with everything else on that page.  In an anchored frame, the 
> | graphic is in a front-to-back list with everything else in the 
> | anchored frame.
> | 
> | Save a back up of the file.
> | 
> | Ctrl-click each item that lies in front of the graphic item. 
> | Cut them to the clipboard.
> | Click on the unwanted graphic and delete it.
> | Select the context: in a page, click in the margin outside the text 
> | frame, in an anchored frame, Ctrl-click the border.
> | 
> | It is important to select the context at this point because the x-y 
> | coordinates of the items on the clipboard are preserved and 
> applied to 
> | position them in their original locations provided they are pasted  
> | back into the context whence they were cut.
> | 
> | Now paste from the clipboard.
> | 
> | Hope this helps,
> | Hedley
> 
> - Lester
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