One minute hacks: Saving time inserting images in Libreoffice
How to anchor as character by default.

You’ve probably used libreoffice. You opened a document, and proceeded to insert an image into the text. It wiggles all over and never rests where you want it to.

You most likely want the “anchor as character” option. Right-click on the newly inserted image, go to the Anchor menu item, and choose As Character. You will have to do this for each image you insert which is annoying…

It turns out that you can choose a different default!

It can be found in: Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> Formatting Aids.

In case you didn’t know, you can also drag images into the document, or even hit “copy” in your favourite image program or even “copy image” in firefox, and then hit paste in libreoffice to pull in the image.

I hope you enjoyed this. I must admit I didn’t know there was a default setting for over ten years. I finally discovered it today. I hope it saves you some years.

Happy Hacking,

James

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August 2, 2023
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