From kde-usability Tue May 28 04:16:19 2002 From: Irwin Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 04:16:19 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: KWord Table Handling Is Strange X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102255935019333 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I find that Tables in KWord behave very strangely. This is the first time I've ever tried KWord for a real project and this has me very wary with the application at the moment. I do come from an MS/Corel WSYWIG way of doing things, so that may influence my opinion. However, frankly, Corel and Microsoft must have done SOMETHING right to have had people pay for their products. The following entries are made in my notebook. Note that I don't really have a real solution, just suggestions of problems. - -KWord observations with table-handling: 1) Table menu doesn't allow you to create a table. (You have to go to "Insert" instead). 2) Click on table: you cannot use the table menu. You must highlight a cell. Not intuitive. 3) Resize columns/rows: there is no "dotted line" indicating where the cell boundaries will move to such a feature exists in Core Wordperfect and Microsoft Word). 4) Right-click on a table does not bring up table properties. (You must highlight a cell first). 5) Move mouse over a cell border: finger pointer appears. You can only highlight the cell above and to the left of the cursor. You cannot drag the borders (as Wordperfect/Word users may be used to doing). I personally find that the Wordperfect way of handling tables is much more intuitive. It allows you to drag to resize table borders with the mouse. When you are within a small amount of space from the border on the right and to the bottom (but not on it), you can highlight the entire cell. There are shadowed borders and tooltip measurement popups to indicate what the results of your drag and drop action will be. - -- - -- Irwin (Arcana) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE88wSW4kwAe/yBEAIRAuJIAJ46uchSKUiS14uCElmLIgQQCDZ7wgCdFUuH OFPQHRyYBqv4eB83fES2C5s= =Q+aI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability