Yup, I saw that. It's not really true. You cannot collapse and expand text using navigation view....only the outlines...which isn't enough. The idea is that you can see the whole outline while you are editing one section only. That's the power of outlining.
That being said, I did find a solution. You do, indeed, use the navigator view, but also you use conditional hidden text and create macros for each level with their own variable (per level). I haven't explored this to see how powerful the macro scripting is, if you can just place it on the level and have it figure out what level it is on and collapse just that level's text (by making it hidden by changing it's conditional variable to 0). I have tried it manually and it works....so in theory, it should work. Some day, when I have time, I'll have to create the necessary macros. Then oo will become usable. Thx -D -----Original Message----- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:28 AM To: [email protected]; Donald Murray Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Outline mode in Writer On Wed May 10 2006 23:24, + Donald Murray wrote: > I see this is a common complaint, yet on the TODO list, I cannot even find > anything on outlining. > > > > The MAIN reason I prefer to continue to use MS WORD over Openoffice is > because Outlining in Openoffice sucks in comparison to Word's features. > Openoffice Writer needs AT LEAST the following features before it can EVER > be considered a serious writing tool for professional specifications. > > > > 1. Must be able to collapse and expand each outline section (using +/- > preferably like in Word). > 2. Must be able to collapse and expand multiple sections by specifying > the level of collapse/expand. > 3. Must be able to number based on Outlining like MS WORD. > As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Thu May 11 2006 08:42, Michele Zarri wrote: > > I used to make large use of the outline view too, but I found that the > navigator (F5) is more than sufficient for what I needed to do > (promote/demote sections, move sections, display only up to a certain depth > and so on...). > Actually, I found the navigator even better than the outline view. Did you > give it a try? Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
