KOffice 1.1 Beta 3 Review: Part 2
KWord 1.1 continues:
I'd been meaning to write a letter to Charles Schwab for quite some
time. Mr Schwab owns a large stake of the investment
company that's named after him. As a part of this review, I composed a
letter
telling him how wonderful KOffice is, and asking him to
pass the word to Bob Lee, the infrastructure desktop manager.
I clicked on "File"->"New" and selected "US Letter" template. The
template
set everything up for me. It created the layout as 8.5" by 11" and
defined
the
global measurement as inches instead of millimeters.
I created a frame by clicking the "ab" icon on the frame toolbar.
The red line points to the "ab" icon.
When prompted to give a name to the frame, I just clicked "OK" instead
of
entering a name. Once that was done, I moved the cursor over the
frame,
where it changes from a pointer to a compass-like icon. Then I pressed
"Ctrl-C" to copy, and "Ctrl-V" to paste, and used my mouse to drag and
resize
the dimensions of the frames according to my needs.
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After I put all the frames in place, I started to write my letter by
clicking
inside the frame. Here is the finished letter with visible frames in
place.
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I discovered that KWord has this neat feature that allows me to make
the
visible frame border disappear, which made my document look very nice.
To do
this, I clicked on "View"->"Frame
Borders". The resulting document looked like this:
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After I finished spell checking the document by clicking on
"Tools"->"Spelling...", I was ready to print.
When I first heard of frame-based word processing, I was a bit afraid
to use
it. Yet, KWord has made frame-based word processing a reality for the
end-user. KWord has done it this time! From what I have seen so far,
it
surpasses what Microsoft Word can do.
In the next part of this review, I will delve deeper into the power of
KWord
as a desktop publishing tool, an area in which Microsoft Word lacks.
This is
where I think KWord really stands out against the competition.
Part 3
