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In article <933@dinorah.wustl.edu> weinhous@dinorah.wustl.edu (Martin S. Weinhous) writes:
>Two questions about Microsoft Word (4.0 for the Mac) ...
>
>1.  How can one prepare ASCII text for later upload to another computer
>without the following happening?
>
>I select a monospace font such as geneva and "save as" the document as a
>text file with line breaks (olso setting this as the document default).
>After additional editing I do a "save" and the screen font changes to
>something other than geneva!  I've tried to get around the problem by
>redefining the normal style for the document, but that has not worked.
>

When you save the file as plain Ascii, it assigns all defaults to the
document.  The default font is New York.  You can change the defaults
by changing the default Normal style to use whatever. (See p46 of the
reference manual).  Also, Geneva is a proportional spaced font -- did 
you perhaps mean Monaco?  

I do what you are attempting every once in a while, and I have better
luck keeping the file in Word format until the bitter end.  I make the
Normal style 12 pt Courier or Monaco, and scoot the margin out to 7in.
This makes the format look about like it will when it gets up to Unix.
I never edit the Ascii-only file.

>2.  We prepare manuscripts that have several authors.  In the past, we
>have used (under WordPerfect 4.2 on a DEC Rainbow, starting in 1986) the
>common editing tools Redline, Strikeout and automatic "finalizing."
>
>Redline adds in-the-margin marks for proposed additions to the document.
>Strikeout runs a horizontal line through text that is proposed for
>deletion.  Automatic finalizing actually deletes Strikout text and
>removes the margin marks from Redline text.  When several people have to
>look at proposed changes in a document, these tools are very helpful.
>
>Word 4.0 seems to only have Strikeout (Microsoft calls it strikethru).
>Am I missing something?  Do Redline and automatic finalization exist, and
>if so where/how?

One of the reasons we were anxious to upgrade to 4.0 was for the
redlining capabilities.  As it turns out, Word itself has fairly
primitive capabilities (all manual, done via some Automac macros).
The real redlining tools are being provided by a third party product
called "Docucomp".  The Microsoft newsletter implied that this
product is now available and had a coupon with which to buy the
tool for only $10.  The product was supposed going to be available
in May, but latest word from Microsoft is that it will be out
in about 2 weeks (their words, not mine!)

Bill Cramer
IEX Corporation
Plano, Texas
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