Introduction

Introduction
, is a full featured WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Word-processor/Desktop Publishing Program.
is part of the productivity suite for the K Desktop Environment. Other applications in include:
(A fully functional spreadsheet.)
(A presentation creator.)
(A vector drawing program.)
(A bitmap image editor)
(A flowchart creator)
(A report generation tool.)
and a simple integrated office desktop, to help organize your work.
All applications were designed from the beginning to take advantage of the features of 2.0. Because of this, (like all of ), supports drag and drop, themes, and many other advanced features you expect from todays desktop environment.
is a word-processor which can work either as a traditional word processor, or as a simple but powerful desktop publishing application. This is possible because is a frame oriented word processor, not a page oriented word processor ( Word, Word Perfect and Applixware are all page oriented word processors).
Frame oriented word processors work by creating one or more frames per page. Each frame acts as a boundary (like a frame which surrounds a photograph), which limits the text to the boundaries of the frame. You can move and re-size boundaries to define exactly where on the page the text will be placed. As you re-size frames, the text is reworked to fit within these frames.
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You can easily connect one frame to the next. When you connect two frames, any text which does not fit within the first frame, flows easily and automatically into the next.
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In addition to text, you can include virtually anything inside a frame. A frame can contain a spreadsheet, clip-art, pictures, a database form, or nearly any piece of data. Since each page can have any number of frames, documents can appear quite sophisticated while still remaining easy to edit.
users also benefit from the auto wrap features of . When you place one frame on top of part of another frame, the text from the lowest frame can be automatically wrapped around the newly created frame. This reformatting occurs in a WYSIWYG Graphical User Interface, and happens automatically while you edit.
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simplifies the creation of new pages (at the users option), by automatically creating frames for the next page, using the current page as a blueprint. This eliminates the need for the user to re-define the frame boundaries each page.
As a word-processor, includes the most used options of many other word processors, while maintaining a simple interface. In addition to the features you expect from a modern word-processing package (text entry, bold face, italics, text alignment, text printing, ), can:
Use predefined templates, to generate complex document layout with one click of the mouse. As a user, you can build your own templates, download templates from the web, or use the current document to create a new template.
allows very complicated numbering of lists. You are not limited to numbers or letters, you can define your own series for your special lists.
Define paragraph layout styles, to shorten the editing time of your document, and ensure consistency throughout a long document.
Edit headers and footers for your documents. You can have different headers for even and odd pages, or the same headers throughout.
Search through your document for text. You can further refine your search by specifying font, format, font size and many other features of the text. By adding wild-cards to your search, the search and replace functions can become very powerful.
Complete footnote and end-note support.
Tables. You can either use the table formatting capabilities of , or you can import any spreadsheet from .
has built in support for KParts. KParts allows you to insert any spreadsheet, picture, chart, graph, document, or any other data type from any application. You are free to edit that KPart using the tools designed for that task, without needing to start the application at all.
can zoom in or out to make the editing of your documents easier on any computer, and with any font size.
supports customizable tool bars and menus.
has extensive internationalization support.
You can embed formulas directly into using the integrated formula editor.
The best part about , is the effort that has been placed to make a productive tool for all your needs from the simplest letter, to the most complex document you might need to work on.

What parts of this guide should I read?
Anyone who has looked at the table of contents has surely come to the conclusion that reading this manual from cover to cover, is an unreasonable (and fortunately unnecessary).
Since different users will have different needs, each section of this manual is self-contained. You are not expected to have read all of the previous sections of the manual to find the instructions useful.
This user guide is designed to be helpful to a wide variety of users, from the very experienced, to the novice user. Each user will have different needs from this manual. To help you determine what you should read and what you can wait on, I have prepared a suggested reading list for three levels of user.
If you read each of these sections before you start using , you will find that using is easy.
Experience Level	Previous Experience	What you should read
Novice	No previous computer experience	Fundamentals Step by Step Tutorial The KWord Screen Document Storage and Printing Editing Your Document Introduction to Menu Bars and Tool Bars
Intermediate	Comfortable with other page based word processors ( Word, Word Perfect and Applixware.)	Fundamentals Step by Step Tutorial
Advanced User	Comfortable with other frames based word processors (Frame Maker, ).	The difference between Word processing and DTP templates
Obviously this will not cover everyones needs. What I hope it will do, however, is help you determine which parts of the manual you need to read before you begin using .
These sections will help you get started initially. You can then refer to the other parts of this manual as needed to help you with specific questions or situations.