Am Freitag, den 23.02.2007, 08:15 +0100 schrieb Mathias Bauer: > Peter Grafeneder wrote: > > > Hope everybody understands now, what I mean, and what a lot of people > > need. :-) > > I have some similar wishes. There are so many tasks that need more text > processing capabilities than we can offer in our text component in Draw, > Calc or Impress but OTOH also need some organizing and navigation > capabilities that Writer doesn't offer. > ...... > Can you describe the essence of the requirements behind your idea in a > few(!) sentences? You gave some examples, but what's the essential > requirement? Mine would be: > > -.....
I have an idea, which exactly fits to the topic of the thread, therefore I just want to add it here. Recently I had the problem that I wanted to print a table in Calc as PDF, but wanted to add some explanatory text at the beginning. So I tried to insert a Text Document in Calc, but was missing an automatic format function. That is, if you type text in Writer before a paragraph the text below your insertion scrolls down. But when you write the text into the OLE text document in Calc, the cells stay where they are and the object overlaps the cells. I thought, well, maybe Writer is the better app for my purpose and linked the Calc spreadsheet into a Text document with my comments. Unfortunately the Calc table now spread over several pages and it is not possible to paginate it in Writer. That is you can put the OLE object on one page and select a part of the Calc contents, which is viewed, but I want to show all contents spread over several pages. Exactly as tables in Writer do it, but when I imported the spreadsheet as table, I lost the formulas of the calculations of course. Not to mention what happened when I tried the same with MS Office, frankly speaking I turned the output into a piece of modern art with it. Although I am aware that it is not so easy to implement OLE functionality that allows Writer to paginate Calc spreadsheets, this would be a feature, which currently no office suite seems to implement. What would be needed is: - Paginate OLE Calc spreadsheet tables like tables in Writer. - Resize cells in Calc containing OLE Writer documents automatically to the size of the document. - Paginate OLE Writer document in Calc together with the cells, without overlap. Or: Combine the functionality of Calc and Writer into one application. Then you have a worksheet and simply put text or tables on demand onto it. Regards, Detlef --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
