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Article #41676Re: Word 4.0 questions
From: BMUG
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 17:00
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 17:00
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In article <4986@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
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>Anyway, I'll probably stick with Word for letters, small manuals, etc.
>(I'm using Quark XPress for the book, and it keeps improving by
>leaps and bounds. Try getting colour separations out of Word!)
>Which is unfortunate, because I like the product and it has the
>advantage of having a de facto 'standard' format (e.g., XPress
>understands Word documents and styles. Who knows when it will
>recognize Nisus? Same for Sonar, which I use to generate indices. Etc.)
>4.0 is such a disappointment.
For me, the most attractive feature of Word 4.0 is its Table Editor,
which is easy-to-use, intuitive, and really very elegant. I'm waiting
for someone to come up with a desk accessory (or, since DAs are rumored
to be going the way of the passenger pigeon, some kind of module) which
duplicates the functionality [if not the Look&Feel :-)] of Word's, and
can be used in the Word Processor Of Your Choice (I guess the way it
would work would be to construct your table in it and insert the finished
thing as a graphic or somesuch into your document), until all the
Word Processors of Everyone's Choice provide a similar facility. Leonard?
John Heckendorn
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