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Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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From: Andy J. Williams
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 16:35
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I got my free upgrade (I bought the full version of 3.02 in mid august)
and it came with all the manuals, superpaint 1.1, coupon for $50 to 
superpain 2.0 and all that.

In the 24 hours I have been playing with it (well, less than that, I 
*did* sleep :-) I have noticed a few quirks.

1) The menus take FOREVER to draw!  What are they doing to the poor
menu manager???  

2) When I first opened the font menu all of my LaserWriter fonts
(Avante Garde, Bookman, and the other 9 that come with the LaserWriter
Plus disks) were all in the menu.  FOUR TIMES EACH!  My menu read
like this:

Avant Garde
Avant Garde
Avant Garde
Avant Garde
Bookman
Bookman
...

You get the idea.

I had to go in with the Commands dialog to nuke all but one copy of each.
Why is this happening?

Scrolling is a bit slow in page view, but not as slow as Fullwrite (not that
this is saying very much).  In three column mode, the text updating is fast!
I typed a retrun in column one at the top of the page and columns two and
three shifted down very quickly.  

All in all, it's pretty good.  I still have my Word Wish list, but it is
getting smaller.

-ajw


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