Images as links

English
#1

Greetings:

I’m pretty new to LibreOffice, haven’t had much need for a powerful word processor since WP 5.1 for DOS. Anyway, is it possible to link to an image such that rather than being inline, the image pops up when you click on its link and then disappears when you click again? Like it would be in HTML, but the image is part of the document, just not automatically visible.

#2

This method will simply show an icon. Double clicking the icon will open the image in Draw, or possibly another program.

  1. Click Insert > OLE Object > OLE Object
  2. In the dialogue, select Create from file, click Search select the image file and Open. Tick both boxes Link to file and Display as icon. OK

If you don’t want to load the images in the document, maybe if you have an older computer with few resources, then you can add them normally (click Insert > Image, in dialogue tick Link, select and OK) but click View > Images and charts to toggle visibility

#3

Thanks I’ve got that half working. But when I try to click on the link it gets surrounded by little grey squares and seems to want to be moved.

#4

Or right click it and select Edit

#5

Can I have the image open in a browser?

#6

Not as far as I know. You can check in the Writer Guide, chapter 11, I think, download from English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides

#7

Thanks. I’m used to working in HTML where that sort of thing is normal.

#8

Maybe you want to insert a hyperlink then. You can select a shape (or text but copy the text so you can paste it into the dialogue [until 26.2 is stable]), then press Insert > Hyperlink (Ctrl+K) and link to an image. The image will open in your default image program for that file type.

#9

Thanks, that shows promise.

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