On 13-Feb-16 12:22, sajjad sheikh wrote:
don't you guys think hes wrong?

First you send a question about the writer guide to the user group on Feb 9^th I asked for chapter / page
reference and got an answer from Rory.
In a further communication with the documentation group (Feb 12^th ) you didn't copy the user group.
Unhappy with the answer from Keith you try to involve the user group again.

Both answers from Rory and Keith are correct. The reason I asked the chapter / page numbers is the way columns are filled depend on how and where you define the columns. If you define column settings at the page format settings it works differently as when you define columns in a frame or section where
you have the option to balance the columns.

So to answer your question is he is wrong is no, basically your question was not clear.
Your question to the user group had no reference to a writer guide.
Your question to the documentation group had a reference to the 2.0 writer guide.
So how do you expect that you get a clear answer?

________________________________________
From: Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 11:33:38 AM
To: d...@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide 2.0 (column)

sajjad sheikh wrote:
Basically i am asking is that after filling first line of second
column, won't that first line of second column move to first column
as its second line and writer will start filling first line of second
column again till both lines of second column are filled?
Sajjad;

No. When the first line on the second column fills, text will flow to
the second line of the first column then from there to the second line
of the second column, ad infinitum.

Also please ply only to the list and not to my personal account.

Regards
Keith


From: Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:59
AM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide
2.0 (column)

sajjad sheikh wrote:
Hi,

can anybody please explain the explanation which is given in the
writer guide about "equally distribute contents to all columns" in
columns of section in which it states in distributing text evenly
"the writer fills first lines of each column followed by second
lines of each column and so on". this description is hell
confusing.

Sajjad;


The explanation is fairly simple. When the box to equally distribute
cont is checked it does just that. Rather than a newspaper style
column arrangement where text flows to fill the first column then
fills the second column, text flows between columns such that when
the first line of the first column is full the text flows to the
first line of the second column and so on.

I hope the explanation is clear if not perhaps this link to the new
version 4 guide will help.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Page#Columns_tab_2

  Regards Keith



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