Jeff Causey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:43CEC7BA.8000705
@triad.rr.com:

> According to the article I referenced by Bruce Byfield, the Navigator 
> equivalent in Writer is the Outline View.  He seemed to think Word's 
> implementation was superior.  As I indicated, I haven't really used 
> Navigator, so I spent a few minutes just tinkering around to get a feel 
> for it.  My initial impression is that it is much more powerful barring 
> what Byfield described as the limitations for "dedicated outliners" 
> (which I am not).  If Navigator were to be included in a list of pros 
> for OO, I'd suggest it be listed somehow to describe what it can do that 
> Word's Outline View can't do vs. just listing "Navigator" as the pro.
> 

Word 2003 has both an outliner and a "Document map". The document map is 
very similar to OOo's navigator; the outline view does stoff that neither 
the navigator nor the document map can manage. Word's better, in other 
words, at showing and manipulating the structure of documents.


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