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The KWord Handbook

Information

The manual for KWord 1.5 has been moved to KWord/1.5/Manual The manual for KWord v.2 will replace it here, and is currently under construction.

Welcome to Kword, a full-featured and powerful word processor and desktop publishing application.

Introduction

Kword is the word processing component of the Koffice desktop productivity suite, and also features the functionality necessary to serve as a desktop publishing application. The Koffice suite is designed to take full advantage of the features and functionality of the KDE desktop environment, and to integrate seamlessly with it's native applications.

Frame-Oriented Word Processing

If you've been using Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, or OpenOffice.org you've become accustomed to page-oriented word processing. Kword is a frame-oriented word processor, which means a great deal more flexibility when it comes to modern content-based document creation. Documents rarely consist of just text anymore; they're more likely to consists of a combination of text and objects such as pictures, graphics, charts, and graphs.

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+==Introduction==
+Kword is the word processing component of the Koffice desktop productivity suite, and also features the functionality necessary to serve as a desktop publishing application. The Koffice suite is designed to take full advantage of the features and functionality of the KDE desktop environment, and to integrate seamlessly with it's native applications.
+===Frame-Oriented Word Processing===
+If you've been using Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, or OpenOffice.org you've become accustomed to page-oriented word processing. Kword is a frame-oriented word processor, which means a great deal more flexibility when it comes to modern content-based document creation. Documents rarely consist of just text anymore; they're more likely to consists of a combination of text and objects such as pictures, graphics, charts, and graphs.