Chuck wrote:
I'm trying to determine column numbers to be used with a unix cut command. With MS Word I just paste a line from the text file, move the caret to the column, and the column number is shown in the status line.
Then your best bet is simply to use the rulers, and, if you do this often, consider using a more appropriate program for the purpose. OOo Writer, and MS Word, for that matter, are for generating printable documents, with font control, hyphenation, proportional type, paragraph flow, multiple columns, and dozens of other things that fundamentally conflict with what you're trying to do.
So what the heck is the "position in document" help page talking about then? Open the help application, go to the "find" tab, and search for "column number". One of the things it finds is called "position in document". I can find in the help document but I'll be darned if I can find the option anywhere in Writer.
I suspect it's (not for the first time) an orphan bit of Help left over from an older version.
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