I just tried to make a simple document with hierarchical heading and a Table of Contents in Kword 2.3.3.

Trying Alt-1 and Ctrl-1 for first-level headings did not work. The only seemingly-relevant Menu item was Format-> Style Manager but apparently that only lets one configure styles, not style the currently selected text or the current line. I added two buttons both called Style Manager to the Format toolbar, but I could not figure out how to actually add the Format toolbar to Kword. I was expecting to find the option to add / remove toolbars in the View menu but there was no such option.

I don't know how much development is currently going on with KWord. A little more infomation on the type of document you want to create may help people to advise you.

Thank you. The attachment feature is disabled, so this is what I would like to do in Kword:

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Section 1

Chapter 1
This is the text of chapter 1.

Chapter 2
This is the text of chapter 2.

Section 2

Chapter 3
This is the text of chapter 3.

Chapter 4
This is the text of chapter 4.


The text "Section [1|2]" would be in a larger, bolder font than the text "Chapter[1|2|3|4]", which in turn is also larger and bolder than the body text. After I would create the document as such, a function would automatically create a Table of Contents at the head of the document like this:

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Section 1

Chapter 1
Chapter 2

Section 2

Chapter 3
Chapter 4


All modern and ancient word processors support Headings and Table of Contents. I use the feature heavily in Open Office, and I just confirmed its existence in Abiword. MS office also has the feature.

For the sort of thing you want, LyX would be your best choice. This was originally developed by Matthias Ettrick and was part of KDE but interest waned and another group of programmers took it over and have continued to build it on Qt. It uses many KDE components and settings by default.

Thank you. Actually, Open Office seems to be the most mature choice on Linux right now But every year I look at Kwords and now I'll start looking at Calligra as well. Maybe next year it will be suitable!

Thanks.