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# Options

Specify properties for the selected image, frame or OLE object.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Image - Properties - Options tab.

Choose Format - Frame and Object - Properties - Options tab.

Choose View - Styles - open context menu for selected Frame style - New/Edit Style - Options tab.

Choose Insert - Frame - Frame - Options tab.

Right-click selected object, choose Properties - Options tab.

## Accessibility

### Name

Enter a name for the selected item.

Assign an object, graphic or frame a meaningful name, so that you can quickly locate it afterwards in long documents.

### Text

Enter a short description of the essential details of the selected object for a person who cannot see the object. This text is available for use by assistive technologies.

### Alt Text

Enter a longer description of the object, especially if the object is too complex or contains too much detail to be described adequately with the short Text. Use Alt Text to add additional information to the short description found in Text. This text is available for use by assistive technologies.

For images, Text and Alt Text are exported with an appropriate tag in HTML and PDF format (remember to enable the Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA) option in PDF export).

### Decorative

Marks the item as purely decorative, not part of the document content, and ignorable by assistive technologies.

## Sequences (frames only)

### Previous link

Displays the frame that comes before the selected frame in a linked sequence. To add or change the previous link, select a name from the list. If you are linking frames, the selected frame and the target frame must be empty.

### Next link

Displays the frame that comes after the selected frame in a linked sequence. To add or change the next link, select a name from the list. If you are a linking frames, the target frame must be empty.

## Content alignment (frames only)

### Vertical alignment

Specifies the vertical alignment of the frame's content. Mainly it means text content, but it also affects tables and other objects anchored to the text area (anchored as character, to character or to paragraph), for example frames, graphics or drawings.

## Properties

Specifies print and text options for the selected item.

### Editable in read-only document (frames only)

Allows you to edit the contents of a frame in a document that is read-only (write-protected).

### Print

Includes the selected item when you print the document.

### Text direction (frames only)

Specifies the preferred text flow direction in a frame. To use the default text flow settings for the page, select Use superordinate object settings from the list.

Related Topics

Text direction.