Inserting Images into Calc - Foreground / Background Issue

[rah]

I am trying to work with images in Calc to use as backgrounds to text for highlighting and emphasizing.

I can get the effects I want by placing the graphic over the cell I have my text in and then use the "Arrange - To Background" command to get the image behind the cell text. This works fine accept it seems to be a one way function. Once I have sent an image to the background, it's unselectable. The only way I have been able to get it back is to Undo the Arrange - To Background" command. If I need to move, resize or remove the graphic at a later time, I'm out of luck.

I tried using Navigator to see if the graphic was still somewhere in the file but I couldn't find it. The Calc Help File show a "To Foreground" command but if you can't select the object, you can't use it.

What am I missing?

[acknak]

Did you try selecting it with the graphics selection tool--the arrow at the left of the Drawing toolbar?

I can also select it from the Navigator by double-clicking on the item name (under "Graphics").

[rah]

Thanks. Who knew there was a "graphics" selection tool?!?!

I had inserted an ellipse graphic into my spreadsheet. There's no sign of it in Navigator that I could find. However, if you highlight the ellipse and select "Name" from the contextual menu and name it say "Ellipse", then Ellipse shows up under the "Drawings Objects" in Navigator.

[jrm_12345]

I cant get this. Can u please help me?

[coray80]

https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/9/ ... InCalc.pdf