What can KOffice 2 Beta 2 offer us?
KDE4 isn’t the only application under development rush in the KDE world. KDevelop 4 and KOffice 2 are also being migrated to Qt4 and enriched with new features. This time I’m going to check what KOffice 2 Beta 2 can offer.
Kword
Like other KOffice apps, Kword has a new interface. By default elements responsible for text formatting can be found at the bottom right corner of the Kword window. In the first tab we have the basic formating rules such as bold, italic, underline and lists. In the second, a list of predefined styles for text elements like headers. This interface emphasis the KDE4 paradigm to allow users to use the software in the “right way”. For Kword it means that you can write a document, but you have to style it using standard formatting for plain text, sections, lists etc. It is probably a good way to do this, but people who want some freedom in the way they make documents may be a bit unpleased.
KOffice uses ODF formats, but compared to OpenOffice, the support of ODF isn’t good, or even acceptable at the moment. Kword crashed while attempting to open some of my bigger ODT files. With smaller and simpler files there was no problem, and the formatting look similar to that from OpenOffice.
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