On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:23, Kai Ponte wrote:
> Just for fun, I gave myself five minutes to see if I could create a
> OOo document with two colums, which were "linked" like in Publisher.
> In other words, when I type or resize one, the words "spill" over
> into the other frame.
>
> Sure enough, I did it in six minutes.
>
> On a blank page, I clicked on Insert > Frame. I then resized my frame
> appropriately. I then added a whole bunch of text. I then added a
> picture as a second "column" to the page.
>
> I then added a second frame and under the Options tab of the frame's
> properties, I saw a "Previous Link" and "Next Link"  I then linked
> the two frames and then resized the first. When I made the first
> frame smaller, the text auto-migrated over to the second frame.
>
> ...

Did you try flowing text in this manner from one page to another? How 
about between non-contiguous pages? Can you mingle independent text 
flows within a given page?

All of these capabilities would be necessary for something such as 
magazine, journal, newspaper or sometimes even simple newsletter 
publishing.


Randall Schulz
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