Microsoft Word utilizes fields for this purpose, so that the original expression can be edited, and supports a richer set of operators, such as exponent (^). Now that's kind of cool and involves work on features (i.e. fields) used elsewhere. There really doesn't seem much point (to me) to implementing the feature as it has been described so far; to each his own. That is, unless it included decimal to hexidecimal conversion so that I could enter the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', and 'f' from the keypad. Being an engineer, I really am much more efficient with the keypad. Rob Campbell > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ha shao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:21 PM > Subject: Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]] > > > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:02:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > According to ha shao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > The hammer thing is a wrong metaphor from the beginning. Abiword > > is not a caculator, [...] However small it is, it does not belong to wp. > > The WP Microsoft Word supports calculating/evaluating expressions. > >
