Dialog box within a picture. How to duplicate combined image?

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CutnPaster - 20 Mar 2008 20:33 GMT

I am making a bookmark for my church. I used a photographic image of a
decorative frame and combined the image with a text box to put the text
"inside" the frame. So far it looks great! However, I need to copy this
"image" I created 7 more times to fill up my page (so that I will have 8
bookmarks to a page). They all need to be exactly the same. I find that
when I do a copy/paste, it only pastes the photo image of the frame...no
text. Of course, I need to duplicate the combined image of the text within
the frame but don't want to have to make a new dialog box for every picture
as it will NEVER come out the same (and very time consuming). Is there a way
to do this?

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Keith Howell - 21 Mar 2008 18:53 GMT

Have you specified Text Wrapping of Behind Text for your image. If so, use
the "Select Objects" arrow from the Drawing Toolbar to select both the image
and text box (you will need to specify text wrapping for the text box as
well) Now use Draw/Group to group the 2 together. Now you should be able to
copy and paste, paste, paste etc this combined object

You can experiment with Draw/Align or Distribute to line them all up as you
want

> I am making a bookmark for my church. I used a photographic image of a
> decorative frame and combined the image with a text box to put the text
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> as it will NEVER come out the same (and very time consuming). Is there a way
> to do this?

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