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Article #17736Bug in Word 3.01!
From: charles s. geiger, esq.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1987 20:48
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1987 20:48
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I just got Word 3.01 today, and believe it or not, I already
have found a bug. To wit:
Did anyone out there use optional hyphens with Word 1.05?
Well, if you didn't, there was a problem there: on the laser
printer, optional hyphens were detached from the word they
were breaking up. For example, at the end of the line would
appear
any -
instead of
any-
I am a stickler for cleaning up the right side of the page as
much as possible, so I manually hyphenate a lot. I couldn't
do this on Word 1.05, because of the above problem. But low
and behold, Word 3.0 fixed this. Hyphens looked right, and
the program would even hyphenate for you. Bliss.
But all is not well. I opened a document typed on 3.0 using
3.01 today, printed it out, and the old 1.05 problem returned,
and with a vengeance! Not only did optional hyphens separate
from their words, but normal hyphens did too. In addition,
these separations weren't just one space, but were two or three
spaces! Example:
any -
or
any -
Strangely, this doesn't appear in "Page Preview" mode. Nor
(luckily) does this happen in new documents (typed on 3.01).
Also luckily, this can be fixed by global changes of all
hyphens to hyphens (- to -) and all optional hyphens to
optional hyphens (^- to ^-). However, this is a pain in the
butt! Will I now have to keep track of which document was
created with 3.0 and which with 3.01, so that I'll know which
ones I'll have to globally change?
GRRRRRRRR! from
charles s. geiger
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!cgeiger From: cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Bug in Word 3.01! Message-ID: <5755@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 16:48:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.5755 Posted: Thu Jul 30 16:48:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:32:15 EDT Distribution: na Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 43 Keywords: Can you believe it?