Images as links

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.

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 but click View > Images and charts to toggle visibility

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.

Or right click it and select Edit