From koffice Wed Jun 28 12:12:54 2000 From: David Faure Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:12:54 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: What will happen when... (KOffice) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=96219442011710 On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:59:20PM +0200, jonathan wrote: > I've a question about KOffice: When I import, say, a spread sheet from > KSpread into a KWord document, and then change the spread sheet. What > will happen? This is very related to the current discussion about pictures. It's exactly the same situation. > - Will the spread sheet in the KWord document change too? > - Will the spread sheet in KWord stay as it was, keeping the "old" > version of the spread sheet? At the moment, that's what will happen. The embedded object is an object on its own, it doesn't know if it comes from a file or not, nor which. > - Will I have the possibility to choose between the things mentioned > above? That's what we are thinking of doing... But it means that when saving the KWord document, the spreadsheet isn't saved as part of that document. Read earlier posts ( http://lists.kde.org if you were not subscribed) for the advantages and disadvantages of that... :) > I think the third option is the best, but maybe one should have an > option (in a Preferences dialog or something) to choose between the > options. Do you know already? Is this a new idea maybe (I don't think > so;-))? I didn't find something about this in the FAQ's. > > Jonathan Brugge > > P.S. I'm sorry if my English isn't very good: I'm just 14 years old and > live in Holland, so I don't speak English daily. Your English is very good, don't worry. 14 years old ? Wow. A future KOffice developer ? :-) -- David FAURE david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://home.clara.net/faure/, http://www.konqueror.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today