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User drcowsley changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Version|OOo 2.0 Beta |OOo 2.4.1
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OOo 2.4.1 on ubuntu Hardy
I teach in a secondary school. We still have some problems, and I have to make
templates for the students to overcome them.
You can only link to the next frame if it is empty.
You make a frame by highlighting text and using insert-frame.
Any programmer and can see the problem!
I make a chain of empty frames for my 'fold-out' pamphlet. To help the users, I
want to pre-position images and/or text boxes for them. No problem on the first
frame, I can insert an object, no wrap (or whatever I want), anchor to frame job
done. But if I want 'no wrap' I have to select it before I anchor to frame.
But I cannot anchor an object onto any other empty frame. I can anchor it to
paragraph or character, but to anchor it to the frame I must first flow text
into the frame, then anchor my object to the frame and set up its wrap
properties. If I want no wrap, I have to set it up before anchoring to frame.
Having populated all the frames with the furniture I remove all text to leave a
blank template.
Incidentally, some of the settings I make seem to disappear as I manipulate text
and frames. In the attached template I have the 'continued in column x' text
boxes successfully placed at the foot of each frame. Putting a similar text box
at the top of each continuation frame saying 'continued from column y' is more
proctalgia.
I'm sure there are good reasons for the rules determining what I can and can't
do, and why the no-wrap option has to be applied before the anchor. But what I
am trying to do cannot be considered exceptional, and the way I have to do it is
not what I want to have to show my impressionable pupils. I want them to like
OpenOffice!
If you have a usability panel, challenge them to get a class of teenagers to set
up their own template with top and bottom continuation messages, then paste a
story onto the chain and edit it to make it fit.
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