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In article <gYK7nty00Uh7Q19X5O@andrew.cmu.edu> ll12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laura Ann Lemay) writes:

>I do not use MS Word occasionally -- I spend 90% of my time in MS Word, and
>the other 10% in Pagemaker.
>
>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?

Well, despite my griping about Word 4.0 here on the net, it is indeed passable.
It is an impressive program. If you were never exposed to PageMaker or
Interleaf or anything else, it would do nicely. If you have been exposed to
real page layout, this won't do. In your case, only you can REALLY judge this
one --- it's that close a call. I personally would continue to use PageMaker,
and I would certainly buy it if I didn't have it.

If you are critical about the quality of typesetting, then Word, even Word 4.0,
does not come close to the quality of PageMaker. Even when fractional width
printing is used, the letterspacing is uneven throughout with Word.

I think that it is important to remember these are two different TYPES of
programs. Page layout programs are weak in interactive word processing, and
word processors do not do top quality page layout.

The thing I griped about with 4.0 wasn't the feature set, though some things
appear to be incompletely implemented. I mainly griped about the BUGS.

Incidentally, until PageMaker 4 comes out, Word 4.0 and PageMaker are not
directly compatible. You need to save Word 4.0 files in Word 3.0 compatibility
format, or else PageMaker won't recognize them. But then, I have read in print
that PageMaker 4.0 will have search and replace. Then you can throw away Word
entirely! ;-) (I'm only half kidding here.)

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