Lotus had tabs down the right side of each document you were currently working on. These were tabbed document divisions. You could not only dynamically go to a document division by clicking on the tab, you could right click on it and get a menu for changing order and such. Completely indispensable for authors. Each tabbed division is a chapter, index, toc, etc. If you want to change the order of chapters you simply changed the order of the tabs.
Documents were kept on a window list. ALT-W brought down the menu where each of your document windows was listed with a number in front of it. You simply hit the number. If you went past 9 open documents the last entry was m More Windows. Clicking or hitting m brought up all of the windows in a scrolling list for you to arrow around then hit enter. This worked on all Windows platforms and all OS/2 platforms the same way. What was/is still not equaled by any word processor on the market is TABBED DOCUMENT DIVISIONS. Surf over to eBay and pick yourself up _any_ of these SmartSuite editions. Neither WordPro nor Organizer have been equaled in the market place despite all vendors and developers having 10+ years to do it. On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:29 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > How did Lotus WordPro organise it? Did they have the tabs vertically down > the > side? Presumably that was pre-widescreen so it would have been less of an > issue. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Roland Hughes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 17:15:47 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do > for > MS-Word? > > Until you implement tabbed document divisions exactly as existed in > Lotus WordPro all this discussion of tabs is like Microsoft talking > about how good their security is...of no benefit to anyone because it is > a joke. > > On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 13:22 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > > 2011/5/28 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions > <[email protected]>: > > > On 05/27/2011 06:27 PM, plino wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Are you aware that, at least > > >>> in Win. that you can move between documents using Alt+tab? I find that > > >>> much > > >>> faster than trying to use a mouse. If you have a bunch of tasks running > > >> > > >> it's > > >>> > > >>> not so handy, but normally you are only switching between a few windows > > >>> and > > >>> it is very quick. > > >> > > >> Are you aware that if you press Ctrl+Tab you can do the same between > > >> documents (or tabs) within the same program? :) > > >> > > > Sorry, but I use Ubuntu as my main system. > > > I use Vista on my dual boot laptop only when I have no other choice. > > > > A bit off topic: > > Then your options are even better. Ctrl+Tab (Ctrl+⇥) works in Ubuntu > > (and probably in all the other GNU/Linux-distributions as well), but > > if you installed the Compiz-Fusion settings manager, you have so many > > more options. > > Of course I tweaked everything in my system, so I don't really > > remember how it worked before all those tweaks, but I am 100% sure > > that Ctrl+⇥ works by default. Maybe also Mod4+⇥ (I think the Mod4 key > > is associated to the Win-key by default), or maybe I tweaked that one > > myself… > > > > And I am pretty sure you can switch between desktops with Ctrl+Alt+→ > > and Ctrl+Alt+←, but as I said, explore the Compiz-Fusion settings > > since there is so much more you can do there. Compiz-Fusion is > > installed by default in Ubuntu these days, but for some strange reason > > the settings manager is not…! You can easily install it with Synaptic > > or the Ubuntu software center though, just search for > > ”compizconfig-settings-manager” in there. Or install it from a > > terminal: > > > > sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager > > > > The settings manager will end up at System → Preferences, so go there > > and have some fun…! > > > > > > Regards > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > > No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol > reserves. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
