Rick Barnes wrote:Rick Barnes wrote:No the file isn't beyond revsion but do we really need this in the printing section of Calc? I think it is better suited to be in the Getting Started Guide or Writer guide so that is why I did not add them to the Calc chapter. I will look over the outline in just a bit. I believe there is another section of Calc that I am migrating, Charts and Graphs I think. :-)I was wondering about this portion of the current outline:
5. PRINTING Owner: Linda Worthington Data Set Needed? No - Details, order, and scale - Print range (what to include) - Appearance - Pages Breaks (not covered in this chapter) - Headers and Footers (not covered in this chapter)
Where will the "Pages Breaks" and "Headers and Footers" be discussed. Since a digital (onscreen) spreadsheet doesn't really need these, they definitely are Printing topics. That goes for Margins and many of the options on the "Page" dialog.
...does "pre-published" mean it is beyond revision? If it is (which I find odd) where should these topics be addressed? I believe they are important...but I can't think of a better place than in the "Printing" chapter.
Rick,
"Pre-published" docs are definitely open for revision and several (esp. in the Getting Started book) have already had changes made (additions and deletions) -- so please continue to suggest revisions to the outline.
Linda brings up the question that hovers over a lot of these guides... how much should be repeated in specific guides vs being in Getting Started? I'm still at a conference, so I probably won't have time to look closely at this specific issue until the weekend, but my initial reaction is.that anything *specific to spreadsheets* (or particularly relevant) about page breaks and headers/footers (and other similar topics) would be in that category.
But these need not go in the Printing chapter -- though a mention of them with a reference to where the info is covered should be in that chapter (which I think is what Linda was doing). For example, I think much or all of the info about headers/footers would be better covered in the chapter(s) I've requested about templates and styles in Calc. In the Writer Guide I have a "Styles Reference" chapter that goes through the dialogs for the different types of styles in considerable detail. I think each book should have something similar, and Calc has only two types of styles (Page and Cell), so it won't be anywhere near as long a chapter as for Writer. Yes, there will be some overlap (some of the tabs on the Page Style dialog cover the same info in both components), but I think each Guide should have the relevant info in it.
Regards, Jean
