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Re: WordPerfect Development Continues

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From: Neil Greene
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:54
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In article <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu>  
irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers) writes:
> 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.

I have not seen too many people happy with Word Perfect on the NeXT just yet,  
although I am sure it has to get better.
-- 
Neil Greene 
Director, Computer Information Systems ARCI, Inc.
President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
Email: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTmail]
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From: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene)
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
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