OpenOffice.org Writer Specifications
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The Styles control of the Text Object Bar offers a set of common used styles -- like Headings 1 to 3 -- even if they are not currently used in the document. The Styles control can also be used to define new paragraph styles based on the current selection. The relation of the Stylist control and the "Styles" tool window -- which used to be the "Stylist" in OOo1.1) -- is more tight. This is done by adding command items to the Styles control to open the "Styles" tool window. The commands to remove styles are aligned between Styles control and the Format menu, respectively the text context menu. |
Final |
2.0 |
11/07/03 |
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This document is a specification for the OpenOffice.org application compatibility options which can be applied to document users are currently working on. |
2nd Draft |
2.0 |
08/26/03 |
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This document is a specification for the "External Leading" compatibility option. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-10-07 |
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This document is a specification for the table enhancement that allows table rows to split at page or column breaks. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-12-01 |
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This document specifies some changes of the behavior of tabstops. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-12-18 |
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This document is a specification to format text with the attribute hidden. This features adds more interoperability with existing office suites to the user. |
Final |
2.0 |
11.12.03 |
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The usability of the Insert - Caption dialog in OpenOffice 2.0 Writer will be enhanced. The new designed dialog preview and the new possibility to add separators from the category label/number to the caption text itself prevents the user from making mistakes and saves rework time. The category label and number could be suppressed. This is very helpful for creating a news-letters etc. The new possibility to assign a character style to the category label and number also saves time. Furthermore the AutoCaption dialog will be adjusted and will be promoted in the Caption dialog. |
Final |
2.0 |
10/13/03 |
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Interoperability between other text processors and OpenOffice.org (OO.org) Writer has to be further improved for OO.org 2.0. The document conversion ability for documents containing bullet lists or numberings into Writer documents is improved by extending the software core functionality of bullet/numbering functionality |
final |
2.0 |
11/07/03 |
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Some core functionality is needed to be undoable. Examples are changing styles, tables, fields. The representation of actions in the undo/redo stack needs to be verbose enough to allow an unambiguous mapping to the actions. Not only the kind of action is to be displayed but also information about the object. E.g., if the user deletes several words by backspace, he gets an undo action for each word. Without additional information about the deleted word it is difficult to see which entry in the undo stack belongs to which deleted word. |
Final |
2.0 |
12/18/03 |
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Undo for header & footer changes in OOo 2.0 Writer is possible. Also, all edits of fields are tracked for undo. |
Draft |
2.0 |
11/03/03 |
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Allow negative positions for Writer fly frames without considering its wrapping style in the area above its anchor. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-11-19 |
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Follow text flow vs. leaving layout environment for Writer fly frames |
Specification of new option 'Follow text flow' for Writer fly frames that are anchored to paragraph or to character to control, if they have to follow the text flow or can leave their layout environment. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-11-19 |
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Introduction of vertical alignments at page area for Writer fly frames that are anchored to paragraph or to character. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-11-20 |
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Adjust terms and introduce 'Follow text flow' for to frame anchored Writer fly frames |
Correction of terms for current possible vertical alignments and introduction of new option 'Follow text flow' for to frame anchored Writer fly frames. |
Final |
2.0 |
2003-11-20 |
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Vertical alignment 'Line of text' for to character anchored Writer fly frames |
Introduce vertical alignment at line for to character anchored Writer fly frames. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-01-05 |
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Adjustment of the formatting of text lines with proportional line spacing |
Change the formatting of text lines with a given proportional line spacing to meet the requirements of the interoperability to MS Word. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-02-06 |
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Change the formatting of table cells controlled by a compatibility option to meet the requirements of the interoperability to MS Word. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-02-13 |
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Introduce new option 'Merge borders/shadow with next paragraph' for paragraphs and paragraph styles. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-02-18 |
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Change the positioning of floating screen objects controlled by a compatibility option to meet the requirements of the interoperability to MS Word. The adjustment affects the determination of the paragraph top for the positioning of floating screen objects. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-03-02 |
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Change text wrapping controlled by a compatibility option to meet the requirements of the interoperability to MS Word. The adjustment affects the text wrapping around objects. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-04-27 |
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Positioning of floating screen objects with considering its wrapping style |
Due to meet the requirements of MS-Interoperability the positioning of floating screen objects has to be adjusted in such a way, that its own wrapping style and the wrapping styles of the other floating screen objects isn't considered. Simply spoken, a floating screen object will get the same position it would have, if its wrapping style is 'Through'. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-05-27 |
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As a replacement for the old Letter Wizard, the new concept introduces a better gui and better localization features. Also the output is supposed to conform to current norms. |
Draft |
2.0 |
10/01/03 |
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As a replacement for the old Fax Wizard, the new concept introduces a better gui and better localization features. Also the output is supposed to conform to current norms. |
Final |
2.0 |
02/07/04 |
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As a replacement for the old Agenda Wizard, the new concept introduces a better gui and better localization features. Also the output is supposed to conform to current norms. |
Final |
2.0 |
02/07/04 |
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A specification to define vertical text in Writer cells, behaviour and UI. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-03-15 |
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A specification to define how to insert tables in table cells. |
Draft |
2.0 |
09/02/04 |
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This specification will relocate and define the behaviour of this icon to a more prominent location as well as introducing an all-new table main menu entry to ease the access to table formatting for users. |
Final |
2.0 |
16.06.04 |
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This specification adds enhanced word count feature to OO.org 2.0 |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-04-07 |
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The Format menu in OOo2.0 Writer is no longer context sensitive, i.e. the set of menu commands is fixed for all objects to be edited. |
final |
2.0 |
07/08/04 |
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The Mail Merge functionality will be totally renewed. The user will be assisted by a Merge Wizard. Advanced users will get a Toolbar from where the most needed functions for creating a Merge are accessible. The new Merge will also be much more flexible in managing & editing databases and allows to save into one single file. |
Final |
2.0 |
04-28-04 |
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The Mail Merge functionality will be slightly changed due to new facts coming out of usability studies. |
Final |
2.0.1 |
09-28-05 |
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Provide the same positioning options to drawing objects that are already available for Writer's text frames, graphics and OLE objects to improve flexibility and interoperability to MS Word. |
Final |
2.0 |
04-30-04 |
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New Browser Button to Select a Database from File in Writer. |
This new browse button allows to select a database from file. |
Final |
2.0 |
05-11-04 |
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The Fields-Database dialog has been reworked to add the possibility of selecting database files, which are not connected as a data source. |
Final |
2.0 |
05-11-04 |
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This specification adds revamps the selection of text and tables in Writer 2.0 |
Final |
2.0 |
27.04.04 |
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This specification adds the collapsing borders model to Writer tables. |
Final |
2.0 |
2004-06-04 |
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A chapter numbering and the heading text itself could be separated by a space character, a tabulator or an indent. If the tabulator or indent method is used, the navigator does not show a spacing between the chapter number and the text. This is hard to read for the user. |
Office Later |
3.0 |
05-11-04 |
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OOo 2.0 now considers spacing and indent set for left / right and for above / below paragraphs when calculating the entire spacing to a table's border. Those two sorts of spacing (paragraph and table) are now being added instead of only considering the distance to border set in the table's properties. This new feature improves the Microsoft interoperability and is also set as default for new created Writer documents to improve the export to Microsoft Word format. But this new feature has some side effects for new created documents: Writer automatically assigns paragraph styles "Table heading" and "Table content" to a table's heading and content. Due to paragraph spacing, set in those styles, the spacing between the last paragraph at the end of a cell and the table border is now much bigger than in OO 1.1. Especially single line paragraph content will not be shown vertically centered within the table cell anymore. Therefore the automatically assigned paragraph styles are changed to Default, the spacing is changed and repeated headings feature is turned off. |
Draft |
2.0 |
10-13-04 |
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The functionality provided by the existing, external libwpd and writerperfect filters should be integrated into the OpenOffice.org 2 build and product. |
Michael Meeks |
draft |
2.0 |
10-25-04 |
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The suppress printing of automatically inserted blank pages option allows users to decide, if they want to have auto generated blank pages printed or not. The option effects the behavior of OpenOffice.org Writer, the Writer Page Preview, the current print job properties and PDF. |
Christian Jansen |
Final |
2.02 |
14-12-05 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 2.x |
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Introduction of an outline level attribute for paragraphs and paragraph styles |
Introduce a new paragraph and paragraph style attribute, named ?outline level?, to transform a normal paragraph directly and independently from any certain list style or paragraph style into a heading. |
Preliminary |
2.x |
2006-11-03 |
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Soft page breaks transports layout inforamtion about page breaks into file format. |
Preliminary |
2.3 |
2007-07-04 |
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The simple mail merge dialog is often used to print already present mail merge documents. The new mail merge wizard seems to be overloaded for those existing mail merge documents. The feature to save the mail merge in a single document is not implemented yet for this old dialog. This specification defines how this feature gets integrated into this dialog. |
Preliminary |
2.3 |
2007-07-04 |
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This specification handles all newly introduced compatibility options in an own section. |
Standard |
2.3 |
07-05-07 |
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Predefined character formatting inside tables is unwanted by the user as we have learned in OOo 2.0 usability studies. Furthermore the formatting, used in the paragraph were the table has been inserted, is expected to be used in the table as well. |
Standard |
2.3 |
04-24-07 |
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The block selection feature adds an additional selection mode to Writer. When this selection mode is active, the text inside a rectangular selection gets multi selected by Writer. This is useful i.e. if an OCRed text has to be further edited. |
Standard |
2.4 |
05-15-07 |
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The ODF 1.1 allows the export of soft page breaks. A soft page break is a page break that has been inserted by a page oriented processor like Writer at a position where the document itself does not include a page break (e.g. paragraph attribute page break before/after). The soft page break information is for the purposes of consistent page breaks and for proper conversion to digital talking book formats. |
Preliminary |
2.3 |
07-04-2007 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 2.4 |
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Providing a menu command to ease the interaction flow to insert page numbers for Writer documents. |
Preliminary |
2.4 |
31-Oct-207 |
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In current versions OpenOffice.org Writer never prints hidden text. Therefore a new print option is introduced to allow printing of hidden text. Furthermore text placeholders are always printed out today. Therefore another print option is introduced to suppress printing of those placeholders. |
Standard |
2.4 |
2007-11-21 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 3.0 |
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OpenOffice.org 1.1 does not keep the speed of autoscrolling on a reasonable rate. Users that do drag&drop or extended selections with the mouse easily overshoot the target position. This spec defines the regions where autoscrolling can be initiated and the speed of the scroll action. |
draft |
3.0 |
10/10/2003 |
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Direct cross references for headings and numbered paragraphs |
Direct cross references allow you to set a reference to a heading or any other numbered item, without defining the reference target before. |
Preliminary |
3.0 |
2007-02-16 |
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New position and space attributes for list levels of a list style |
Introduce new position and spacing attributes for the list levels of a list style in order to provide a new possibility to specify the position and spacing of the list label and the text lines of the list item itself. |
Preliminary |
3.0 |
2008-01-29 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 3.1 |
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Makes it possible to accept and reject tracked changes via context menu. |
Preliminary |
3.1 |
2008-11-10 |
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Makes it possible to edit and delete hyperlinks via context menu. |
Preliminary |
3.1 |
2008-11-25 |
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Introduce a new font effect that draws a line above a selected character or group of characters. The line style and colour may be selected by the user, with the same options available as for the underline font effect. |
Preliminary |
3.1 |
2008-11-25 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 3.2 |
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Introduce support for ODF 1.1 title and description attributes of graphical shapes for Writer objects (frames, floating frames, OLE objects and pictures). |
Preliminary |
3.2 |
2009-08-12 |
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Specifications for OpenOffice.org 3.x |
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Introduce a new paragraph style attribute, named List Level, to format a normal paragraph as a numbered paragraph with the indicated list level via its paragraph style's attributes. Import Microsoft Word document accurately that contains the list level value in its paragraph styles. |
Preliminary |
3.x |
2009-10-19 |
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