Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!patrinos From: patrinos@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Anthony J. Patrinos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Importing drawing package outputs to Word Message-ID: <1990Nov22.044135.3581@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: 22 Nov 90 04:41:35 GMT References: Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 26 In article clg@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Craig Gruneberg) writes: >Is it possible to copy from a drawing package such as Superpaint or Mac Draw >and paste into a MS Word document. I should think there would be a way but >as a novice I have not been able to do so. > >What I have been trying is a boxed outline that would form a boarder >around the MS Word page. Just to dress up the MS Word page alittle. > >Thanks for any tips, >Craig The way to import a graphic from a paint/draw program is to select the graphic while in the graphics program, copy it to the clip board, switch to Word and paste it into your document. Word treats graphics as single characters, so what you want to do (i.e. placing a border around a page cannot be done (at least trivially - maybe with absolute paragraph positioning, but that would be too cumbersome). On the other hand Word enebles you to place borders around paragraphs (that I am sure of - look at the paragraph menu item) and possibly around a page - try looking at the document menu item. I guess one way to do it would be to place a left and right border around ALL text paragraphs, a bottom border in the header and a top border in the footer, then carefully position the header and footer to make the box continuous. Tony