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Re: WinWord 6 Font list

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From: Rob Goerz
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 05:18
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No problem.  The question wasn't worded very clearly.  In any event, MS 
responded to the original poster directly that MS recognized that their 
'feature' wasn't being well received by users & are in fact working on a 
future update to improve the scheme.  I assume they (meaning Microsoft) 
will notify through this board.  In the meantime we'll have to live with 
it.

John Dix (johndix@netcom.com) wrote:

: : Apparently the responder doesn't understand the original question.  WfW6
: : has some scheme to retain a sub-list of most recently used fonts above the
: : complete font list as seen in the drop-down list.  So I believe the
: : originator is asking if there is any way to clear/maintain this list,
: : either for the current document or for all instances of Word documents.

: : I have the same question!  To me its a highly annoying 'improvement',

: : --
: : Rob Goerz, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada   Internet: goerz@amtsgi.bc.ca

: You're right, Rob, I didn't understand (read) the question properly.

: What I do, is to select a word then change the font to the one(s) I
: want in the upper list.

: John Dix, San Jose  CA
: --

:                                              johndix@netcom.com
:                            "Trying hard to spend less time on a computer"

--
Rob Goerz, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada   Internet: goerz@amtsgi.bc.ca
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From: goerz@island.amtsgi.bc.ca (Rob Goerz)
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Subject: Re: WinWord 6 Font list
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