Pasting image breaks all text formatting

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Hi I tried @Just user steps in LO 6.4.4.2 on Win10 and picture did paste over top of lower paragraph (oddly, it seemed to be anchored to character, not paragraph as is usually the case). It is easily fixed by:

1. right-clicking on picture and selecting Wrap | Wrap off or Wrap | Optimal page wrap Or
2. right-clicking on picture and selecting Anchor | Anchor as Character . Once it is anchored as character you can easily move it to exact location by cutting and pasting it at the cursor. This is also a good way to hold down unruly pictures while you resize them to fit the remaining space on a page even if you will subsequently anchor it to a paragraph

All was same as I left it after saving, closing and re-opening. I wouldn't usually use docx, maybe the moral of the story is to save in ODT ...(more)

"It is easily fixed by: right-clicking on picture and selecting Wrap | Wrap off or Wrap | Optimal page wrap Or right-clicking on picture and selecting Anchor | Anchor as Character" Just wanted to follow up this thread others have written on. I have the same ongoing nightmare of pictures that are pasted into the document always with the wrong parameters. I have "save ratio" ticked, but regardless, when you resize an image (the usual way of clicking on the green corners and gliding into a smaller space) it invariably destroys the ration of height and width, no matter what the settings are. Also want to note that I can't be the only person who chooses to paste a graphic image into a document without saving it first on the hard drive every time. (Copy and paste exist for the sake of this capability, I think.) If paste worked properly, we could ...(plus)

It's hard to understand why the responses, earnest and trying hard to help, still miss the nearly insurmountable dysfunction of Writer's handling of images.. Try to understand not from a software developer's perspective, but from a user's perspective. You find an outstanding newly published piece, want to save it and give to a class to read. You can try to make it into a pdf from the web directly, but that will often have bad outcomes like images that are split in two over two pages. etc. So your other option is to select and copy the entire thing and attempt to paste it into Writer, save it and then make a pdf for students. Problems occur in the same manner every single time. The images paste OVER the text, which you can access by resizing the image. ... So you know it's there. Why wouldn ...(more)

... cont'd from previous. ...paragraph and, with the user able to resize the image to fit the page without it sitting on top of the text, but Wrapped in the standard way, text above, text to the right of the image, text below the image, etc.This is not possible. Instead it is necessary to right click on every image and resize it to fit. This then leaves huge spaces after the images as the text does not continue until the next page (or the image demands to be inserted on the next page). Moving the image does not move the anchor, so you are required to take bits of text and paste them in by trial and error until the rest of the page if filled and the image can be made to appear at the top of the next page. Laborious incredibly time consuming, and yet there is ...(more)