Atlantis Word Processor

"Ken Springer" wrote in message
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On 2/5/14 2:47 PM, BillW50 wrote:
"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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BillW50 wrote:

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Why are people creating tables on a word processor? Why not use a
spreadsheet?

It depends on what your goal is with the table.

I think people tend to lose sight of the purpose of a spreadsheet.
It's for the purpose manipulating numbers, doing math operations of
some type. It's not for manipulating text.

You're right, but on the other hand, I think some lost sight what tables
are for. And while spreadsheets are manipulating numbers, databases are
for manipulating text and/or numbers. If say you are running a computer
review for example, why are they using tables to just control the left
and right margins of the paragraphs?

In your preferred spreadsheet, can you insert a graphic/image into a
cell? In a Libre Office spreadsheet, you can insert a graphic/image,
but it's free floating, it's not inserted into the cell itself. Which
you might want if you were using LO Writer to create a table for a
basic HTML page.

In Writer and Word, the image is inserted into the table cell. Change
the size, shape, location of the table and/or cell, and the image
moves with it. Doing the same in an LO spreadsheet, the image stays
put. You have to manually reposition that image.

I'm sure there are other differences, but this one comes to mind. And
doing something like this that doesn't require a math component is
simply extra steps you have to do to get that table into the text
document, plus the extra time to edit that table info.

You know, some word processors has features of basic spreadsheet and
database use. Even though these features might be there, I wouldn't call
them very useful except for the lightest of uses.

You know I save lots of computers articles over the years. My most used
format is in plain text. As it is the most transportable format of all.
But when it just isn't practical, I'll use RTF, DOC, HTML, or even
MHTML. And most of the time I see tables used in docs, it was totally
unnecessary.

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