Get figures to align automatically in a document ?

I want to drag and drop a bunch of figures (jpegs) into a document so that they will all be visible and line up nicely when I resize them. eg 10 figures and I want to arrange them in 2 columns of 5 figures each => ideally I would just have to resize the width of each to half the page width and they would then automatically just line up. So the first problem is that by defualt the figures get place on top of one another ! Bizzare, under what circumstances would a user want all but the last figure to be hidden ? Anyway, by choosing Anchor -> ‘As character’ they all become visible, so now I would like to be able to just resize each one to half the width of the page and as I do so the successive ones should automatically just ‘fall’ back up into the space that has been made available when the preceeding one is resized. Essentially behaving as ‘characters’ do when justfification is enabled, eg if I delete some words on the preceeding line the words on the next line automatically get moved back to the previous line and line up nicely with the two edges of the page. So, is there anyway to get figures in LibreOffice to behave as characters on a justified line ?

Thanks,

Usjes.