Andrew,
the outline view does stoff that neither
the navigator nor the document map can manage
Could you give an example of something Word's outliner can do that
navigator or the document map cannot do? I'm just trying to get a
handle on the differences as I haven't really used any of these tools in
my own work (but perhaps I should be).
On a slightly different note, I went and fired up Word 2003 to look at
some of these items and up popped Clippy. Is that a con for MSO??? :-)
Jeff Causey
Andrew Brown wrote:
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.
