Issue 62817 - WordPerfect alike underwater screen
Summary: WordPerfect alike underwater screen
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 3395
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.2
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2006-03-06 12:02 UTC by wvholst
Modified: 2006-03-06 18:25 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: FEATURE
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Description wvholst 2006-03-06 12:02:58 UTC 
One thing that is missing from modern day wordprocessing software is the
underwaterscreen that used to be available in WordPerfect. Especially in
documents where the layout has become hairy, this is a valuable tool to fix things.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-03-06 16:47:02 UTC 
Could you please explain, what the so-called "underwater screen" is and what it
is capable of doing? I do not have WordPerfect and I couldn't find it on Corel
webPage, so it would be nice to be told about it.
Thanks a lot!
Comment 2 wvholst 2006-03-06 17:38:29 UTC 
In WordPerfect there was a split screen modus available of your current
document. The top part of the screen would show the normal view of the document
(in the pre-WP 6.0 days a crude text-base approximation of the lay-out, in later
versions it would be WYSIWYG). The bottom part would show the mark-up codes
inside the document. It was suprisingly similar to having a html editor showing
a preview of your webpage in the top part of the screen and the raw html in the
bottom part. The fun bit was that the cursor would move in both parts. It was
tremendously useful for removing redundant markup (for example several opening
and closing bold-codes) and markup that was causing trouble.
Comment 3 wvholst 2006-03-06 17:39:08 UTC 
In WordPerfect there was a split screen modus available of your current
document. The top part of the screen would show the normal view of the document
(in the pre-WP 6.0 days a crude text-base approximation of the lay-out, in later
versions it would be WYSIWYG). The bottom part would show the mark-up codes
inside the document. It was suprisingly similar to having a html editor showing
a preview of your webpage in the top part of the screen and the raw html in the
bottom part. The fun bit was that the cursor would move in both parts. It was
tremendously useful for removing redundant markup (for example several opening
and closing bold-codes) and markup that was causing trouble.
Comment 4 ralphie 2006-03-06 17:49:51 UTC 
I think this is a duplicate of Issue #3395.
Comment 5 wvholst 2006-03-06 17:53:49 UTC 
It indeed is, apologies for the duplicate. Didn't know it was called 'reveal
codes' in the English versions of WordPerfect.
Comment 6 ace_dent 2006-03-06 18:24:33 UTC 
Marking duplicate.

Regards,
Andrew

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3395 ***
Comment 7 ace_dent 2006-03-06 18:25:19 UTC 
Closing.