
Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer
Note: The height of a frame that is linked with a subsequent frame is automatically fixed. The height is no longer
automatically adapted to the content of the frame. Only the height of the last frame of a chain can be adapted to the
text content.
Click the Link of the object bar when a frame is selected and the cursor changes. The cursor
can display as on of two icons: a chain with an arrow when two frames can be linked by
clicking, or a chain with a stop sign when linking is not possible where the cursor is
positioned. A note is displayed in the status bar in each case, for example, why linking is
possible or not possible.
Note: Linking is only possible from one frame to the next. That means that a frame that is already
linked to a frame cannot be linked to another frame which follows. Therefore, the link icon cannot be
activated if a frame already has a next link. Also, two frames can only be unlinked with the Unlink Frames icon
from the first frame.
Linking of frames cannot happen under the following conditions:
• The target is not empty. Automatically captioned frames are not considered empty and,
thus, can not be the target of a link.
• The target already has a previous link.
• Source and target are in different sections. For example, one frame is in a header and the
other frame is in a footer.
• The source already has a next link.
• Source and target are the same.
• Closed chains or chains from the inside out or from the outside in are also not permissible.
The latter is the case if a frame is inserted into another frame and these must be linked
with each other.
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