Re: about to tear my hair out

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 20:15 -0400, soaring@surfglobal.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have to say I'm not very happy with Abiword over-all. Try using the 2
> or 3 column option for a document! Instead of automatically moving its
> cursor over to the start of the next column, the user has to MANUALLY
> TAB over to the 2nd or 3rd column whichever it may be, after _each_
> previous line of text! Pretty time consuming and ridiculous. The
> cursor should automatically move over to the start of the next column
> after each line of text entered-- don't you agree?
>

I think you want a table not columns.

Insert a 3 column table with one row. If you don;t want lines you can
remove them with the "format table" dialog.

> There are many other flaws in the software I don't have time to go into
> now. It also gets tired very quickly as the text begins to 'fade' from
> view --- my memory should be adequate to run the program without it's
> doing that!
>
> Will try to find a different program to use than AbiWord---- think its
> developers ought to fix a lot; how could they have overlooked so much?
> It's quite aggravating to use.
>

AbiWord follows the behaviour of most other Word Processors with regard
to Columns and Tables.

Good Luck with your search.

Cheers

Martin

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Received on Tue Apr 18 03:28:49 2006