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I have seen a lot of people posting their complaints of MS Word 4.0 lately.
I guess I'd like to add a couple of pointed questions myself.

Recently, I saw a post where the person was asking about anchoring a graphic
to a page location and then having Word flow text around it.  I don't think
the poster used these types of terms, but that was how I interpreted the
request (I lost the original post).  Unfortunately, I didn't see any replies
posted to the net (or a summary yet).

To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible with Word 4.0.  However,
since this is a real problem for me as I need to insert tables, charts, and
graphs into Word to produce draft chapters of my dissertation.  As it
is, I assume that I have to place <whatever> and then tweak the text around
it myself.  However, I would like to tap the collective knowledge of the
net to make sure that I am not missing something in Word.  Am I?  Is it
possible to do this with Word?  Having to keep readjusting chapter drafts
manually is not a thought I relish at all.  It would almost be simpler to
cut and paste.

If not with Word, then how about another Mac product?  At this point, I am
seriously considering a switch.  On the IBM side, I am aware that WordPerfect
5.0 (5.1) allows you to place a graphic and have text flow automatically
around it.  So please don't post responses that I am asking a word processor
to do the work of DTP package.  Even with Waterloo Script on my IMB mainframe
(OK, so it actually belongs to Penn State) I can kind of do these types of
things by dumping floating blocks.

Also, is there a way to tell Word to automatically number a new document with
the next logical page number from the previously printed document.  Again,
I keep my chapters in separtate files.  I then print the whole thing by
choosing the appropriate file under the Next File selection of Page Setup.
While this works to print all chapters, I have to manually change ahead of
time the starting page number for each chapter.  Again, am I missing
something?  I admit I haven't read the 4.0 documentation as closely as I
csign have, but I have been unable to find a way of doing this.

Oh well, thanks for any information in advance.  If you don't like posting
to the net, send me e-mail and I'll summarize.
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Scott D. Camp
Dept. of Sociology
The Pennsylvania State University
305 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA  16802
814-863-0393