[PLUG] Horizontal lines in OO Writer document

Zot O'Connor zot at zotconsulting.com
Thu Jan 9 01:58:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:17, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 18:32, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Richard Steffens wrote:

> Something cool I just noticed is Open Office has anchor point options for both 
> frames, and for lines and objects created with the drawing tools. The main 
> ones being page-relative, or paragraph-relative. With old MS Word, there were 
> no anchors, and lines and text frames were independent of the text, so there 
> was lots of tedious hand-editing when any changes were made to the text. 
> Delete a sentence, lines had to realigned manually. I do like these modren 
> times.

Openoffice is more of a Desktop Publishing System.  People with
experience with Frame Maker, or Page Maker often have an easier time
with the difference of oo and MS Word.  To some extent everything in OO
is a frame.


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Zot O'Connor <zot at zotconsulting.com>
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