KOffice 1.1 Beta 3 Review: Part 4
KWord 1.1 continues:
I called up five days ago to request a $100,000 loan to start my new
business helping people migrate out of Microsoft and into Linux. The
loan
officer told me at the very least I have to have a summary report of my
current financial circumstances. I took this opportunity to explore
the
power of component technology in KWord. In other words, I wanted to
embed a
spreadsheet into my KWord document.
KWord is one of the few mature word processors that has embedded
technology.
And, it is the only word processor that leverages the power of
KParts.
I started out writing my financial summary report like so:
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The next thing to do was to embed a KSpread into KWord. All I had to
do was
click on the "?" icon represented by the translucent red line in the
enlarged
picture above. I clicked on 
to create an
embedded
spreadsheet. I noticed a crosshair mouse cursor, which allowed me to
specify the side of my embedded KSpread.
I was then prompted to either use an existing KSpread or create a new
KSpread. I chose to create a new KSpread.
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I now had a KSpread spreadsheet in my KWord. I moved the mouse over
the
spreadsheet, and wow! My KWord application turned into a KSpread
application. That, everyone, is the power of KParts -- the most
advanced
component technology on this planet.(Yup, better than DCOM, I will tell
you
why later.)
After I finished entering my bogus financial information, I moved the
mouse
cursor out of the KSpread frame, and clicked on the KWord document.
Then I
created the border by selecting the KSpread frame. This is different
from
selecting the KSpread object and editing it. The way KWord works is to
place
the KSpread object in a frame, which gave me the flexibility to resize,
add
borders, and layer other frames on top of it. This is what makes KWord
state-of-the-art. This technology will uniquely position KWord to be
the
champion amongst all other word processors.
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After working so hard on my KSpread, I wanted to see how it looked in
print
preview.
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As mentioned before, KWord is a frame-based, component-based word
processor.
This combination of features makes KWord the most advanced of its kind
to
date. KWord is chock-full of features, and not only does it use the
most
advanced technology available, the price AND freedom cannot be beaten.
KWord
is FREE and GPL.
In Part 5, I will explore the groupware feature in KWord and the
technology
that makes it possible. You will be pleasantly surprised to know that
all
KOffice applications have this groupware capability.
Part 5
