From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 09:46:31 EST
On lun, 2004-01-19 at 15:30, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> My objection is that MS Word draws a very artifical distinction between
> outlining and lists. Even worse you have enter a special mode before you
> can actually use many of the features of their lists. (At least in Word 97
> and 2000). I dunno about later products. OOo does the same stupid thing.
>
> The idea of hiding text you don't need to see at the momemnt is a good.
>
> In AbiWord we'll just add an extra button to hide the text you don't need
> to see at the moment.
Word outline mode (last time I used it was Word 5 for Mac times, 10 yr
ago, WinWord 2 was probably almost the same) is based on heading level
that is associated to the stylesheet.
So you had:
Heading 1
Heading 2
Some text
Heading 2
Some other text
Heading 3
with text
Heading 1
and so on. You could tell not the the "text" completely, you can
show/hides level, as well as collapse some part.
One of the stupid things was that it was based on the style sheets....
Outline mode was just a supplement to Normal and Preview view modes. If
I have time, I'll send som shots.
More III was indeed quite a little bit different as it offered Outline
mode by default and that you really defined outline level, not style
sheets. And on a side feature, it could generates the slides from that.
Hub
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