Features in Creating Text

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Features in Creating Text

StarOffice Writer Feature List

Editing Functions	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Context-sensitive menus with right mouse button	+	+
Drag and drop or copy	+	+
Drag & drop between documents	+	+
Auto Complete	+	+
Number of undo levels	100	100
Redo Command	+	+
Repeat command	+	+
Document-specific redo/undo history	+	+
Configurable number of undo/redo steps	-	+
Go to specific page	+	+
Direct Cursor	+	+
Bookmarks	+	+
Mark insertion point on save	+	+
Hypertext links	+	+
Drag & drop hypertext links	-	+
Abbreviations / glossary	+	+
Glossary entries include graphics	+	+
Update all elements	+	+
Update fields only	+	+
Update graphics and links	-	+
Multiple selection	-	+
Smooth scroll	+	+
Integrated address book	-	+
Max. paper size: 120 x 120 cm (47,24"x47,24")	-	+

Editor Display Characteristics	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Column and page numbers	+	+
Headers/footers/footnotes	+	+
Edit individual on-Screen columns	+	+
User-defined view percentage	+	+
Show tabs, spaces, C/R	+	+
Preview facing pages	+	+
Thumbnails	+	+
Show document only	+	+
Split screens or windows (one document)	+	+
Optimal zoom	-	+
User-defined print Preview	+	+
Maximum zoom %	500	600
Printable print Preview	+	+
Direct editing of header and footer	+	+
Direct editing of footnotes via mouse	+	+
Direct editing of footnotes via keyboard	+	+

General Formatting	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Automatic layout	+	+
Copy format with mouse	+	+
Keep paragraphs together	+	+
Window/orphan control	+	+
Right/center/decimal tabs	+	+
User-defined decimal standard tabs	-	+
Specify leader character	+	+
Measurement in inch/cm/point/pica	+	+
Left/center/right/justify	+	+
Justify text with last line specification	-	+
Micro-justification	+	+
Automatic kerning	+	+
Manual kerning	+	+
Adjust character spacing	+	+
Apply page borders	>-	+
Auto Format	+	+
Auto Complete	+	+

Text Attributes	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Double underlining	+	+
Single word or continuous underlining	+	+
Title case	+	+
Small caps	+	+
Strike through	+	+
Outline	+	+
Shadow	+	+
User-defined super and subscript	+	+
Blinking text	+	+
Expanded/condensed spacing	+	+
Language as text attribute	-	+
Drop caps with no. of lines, distance, text	+	+

Paragraph Formatting	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Left/right indent	+	+
Indent all lines/first line/remaining lines	+	+
Define line leader	+	+
Define paragraph leader	+	+
Bulleting	+	+
Automatic numbering	+	+
Arabic/Roman/alphabetized numbering	+	+
Automatic renumbering	+	+
Remove numbering	+	+
Skip numbering	+	+
Paragraph borders	+	+
Stylist floating window with format styles	-	+
Hidden paragraphs	+	+
Paragraph background	+	+
Character background for paragraph styles	+	+
Fixed line spacing	+	+
Fill Format mode for character background	+	+
Register-true option	-	+
Conditional text formatting	-	+

Styles	MS 2000	SO 5.1
Styles applicable in any document	+	+
Global style modification	+	+
Styles include page layout, alignment and spacing	+	+
Styles include fonts/text effects	+	+
Styles include Bullets and numbering	+	+
Base new style on existing style	+	+
Relative style definition	-	+
Automatic styles	+	+
Number of predefined styles	82	>130
User created style by example	+	+
Print style sheet information	+	+
Update style by example	+	+
Fill Format mode	-	+
Extra styles for tables	-	+
Extra styles for words	-	+
Extra styles for pages	-	+
Extra styles for Frames	-	+
Extra styles for numbering	-	+
Global standard fonts for standard, title, list,	+	+
Organize styles via drag & drop	-	+
Load styles from document	-	+

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Features in Creating Text

StarOffice Writer Feature List

Editing Functions

Editor Display Characteristics

General Formatting

Text Attributes

Paragraph Formatting

Styles