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title: "Toward a New (QL) World Order"
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published_at: "2026-01-21T16:30:21+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-01-21T16:30:21+00:00"
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excerpt: "I write many documents with text in columns and Quill isn't much help in automatically rearranging text. have found that Abacus is a handy program with some word processing functions unavailable in Quill."
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  - name: "CATS Newsletter"
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model:
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    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
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  - name: "Ed Kingsley"
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  title: "CATS Newsletter"
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pages: "3, 6"
pubdate: "April 1992"
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---

# Toward a New (QL) World Order

I write many documents with text in columns and Quill isn’t much help in automatically rearranging text. have found that Abacus is a handy program with some word processing functions unavailable in Quill.