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Re: Word 4.0 questions

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 15:42
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>When I first heard about MS Word, it was said it had complete Desktop
>Publishing capabilities.  Cool, I thought, when I graduate, I won't have
>to break down and buy pagemaker (I've been using my own copy of Word, and
>pagemaker on an appleshare server).

>From what I've heard out of previews, MS 4.0 doesn't do nearly as much as it
>had intended to do.  What are the DTP features like?  I realize that it
>can't have nearly the capability of PM, or even Ready, set, go, but is it
>passable?

For simple stuff? probably. It's added some things like locking down the
location of graphics and wrapping around them. Nothing that would even
begin to make me consider giving up my layout program. Writing reports,
formal memos, and that sort of stuff -- but any complex design (things
beyond a single text document, beyond two column with some graphics) is
still going to be beyond it.



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