How can I remove spacing around an image copied from html?

[AHoerner]

I have a block of text and an included image imported into writer from html. I am trying to reformat this to print, with a much smaller version of the image. after resizing the image, there is a large block of space before and after the image. If it is highlighted, it looks like there is a single blank after the image in, like, 120 point type. But there isn’t, at least not one that can be deleted. I have tried dragging and dropping it, cutting and pasting the image, reformatting the text around it, deleting everything immediately before and after it, clipping out a piece of it. No matter what I do, this now postage-stamp sized image takes up a third of a page

I have two related questions.

1. How can I eliminate the excess space around this image?
2. Is there any sort of “display formatting” command or view that would show me what is holding it in place so that I would know what to look for? Because I have had problems of this general sort with copied snippets many times, and I’d like to learn how to diagnose them.

[ajlittoz]

Edit your question to tell if the image resides inside a frame. If you don’t know technically what a frame is, please attach a sample file (reduced to 1-2 pages) so that we can analyse it.

To see the formatting, enable View>Formatting marks.