At 12:21 20/01/2013 -0500, Alan Boba wrote:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:10 20/01/2013 -0500, Helen Etters wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:42:46 -0800 (PST), Eric Fenster wrote:
What chance Open Office will offer "reveal codes" à la Word Perfect?
This is the reason I keep my old Word Perfect
program, as crash-prone as it is. The feature really helps control formatting.
I'm with Eric on this one. I've pined for
that Word Perfect feature for many years. I
doubt we'll ever get it, but I wish I still
had a copy of Word Perfect. The styles
feature doesn't replace WP's ability to find
and delete a single troubling code.
The only reason you can have a single troubling
code is that the program is faulty. Wouldn't
it be more sensible to correct the program so
that this couldn't occur? The reason why Word
Perfect could have single troubling codes is
precisely because users were allowed to tinker
with them and introduce mistakes.
My 2¢, I've run across some troubling documents
with formatting that seemed impossible to
manage. (Could post sample if its desirable). In
those few rare cases much frustration and time
could have been saved with a reveal codes feature.
I agree. As Dennis Hamilton said, "ability to
reveal the styling that applies at any given
place in the text would be very handy in
trouble-shooting a document." But the user must
*not* be allowed to tinker with formatting at
this level, instead being required to make the
changes in the right pace - which will now have become apparent.
My recollection of Wordperfect history is reveal
codes was a workaround added to allow users to
correct format bugs that early versions of the program had.
That's interesting. I didn't know this, but it makes complete sense.
Brian Barker
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