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Re: WordPerfect Development Continues

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From: Thomas Myers
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:44
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In <1992Aug18.173215.16591@deepthought.uucp> deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes:

>I certainly hope WP or some other word processing application for the NeXT will  
>support STYLES and DESCRIPTIONS like those found in Ami Pro for Windows. 

>For those of you that have not used Ami, when saving a file a use may enter a  
>short description.  When opening files, the user may also select to quickly  
>view these descriptions as filenames are selected, displaying the files  
>description.  Very usefull when you have memo1, memo2; boss1, boss2, ...,  
>bossn, etc.

>Does anyone know if this may or may not be supported.  What about Appsoft's  
>Writenow?

Certainly WP supports this with Document Summary, which may be manually
modified at any time or (optionally) requested at document save.  Opening a
file, however, does not give an option to look at this.  

Also WP has Styles available, and they work pretty handily.
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