Sometimes you want to place some text in your Writer document at a position out of normal margins and text lines. In Writer, you use either a graphical text box from the Drawing toolbar, or you use a text frame.
Text box
Click the Show Draw Functions icon on the Standard toolbar. This opens the Drawing toolbar at the bottom of the Writer window.
Click the T (Text box) icon.
Drag open a rectangle where you want the text box.
Start to enter your text.
Your text in the text box can be formatted like normal text. Pictures are not allowed inside a text box.
Text frame
Choose Insert - Frame. On the dialog, click OK.
You see a small standard frame centered between the left and right margins. While it shows the eight green handles, you can move and resize this frame. And you can set the properties for the frame as an object.
Click outside the frame to leave the selected object, then click inside the frame to enter text or insert pictures.
Alternatively, first select the text that you want to see inside a frame, then choose Insert - Frame.
Linked frames
When you create a newsletter, you may want to use linked frames for your story. On page 1 of the newsletter, the text starts with a header and a first chapter, and on page 2 or 3 there is another frame with the remaining text.
Create the frames in your document.
Click the border of the first frame to select this frame. You see the Frames toolbar.
Click the Link frames icon.
Now click the next frame to connect the two frames.
Text will flow from the first frame to the second as needed. Only the last frame of a chain of linked frames resizes with the text, all other frames keep their size.
Text boxes and text frames can have borders or no borders, as you like. Open the object's context menu and set the properties. All these text boxes and frames export very well to PDF. When you save your document as html format, you may want to fine-tune the result. And first save the document in OpenDocument ODF format, because you will always lose some formatting when you save to other formats.