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bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:

> In article <30244@cup.portal.com> spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page) writes:
>
> I use Mac Word at work, WfW at home, and just disposed of my Word for DOS.
> Mac Word, while graphically oriented, has the power of Word for DOS and IMHO
> is well behind WfW.  I suspect an upgrade for Mac Word to incorporate the
> newer features of WfW will be coming soon.
don't be too certain.  when i called to complain about WFW <--> Word 5.0
compatibility i mentioned that word for mac seemed more compatible w/
word 5.0 than WFW did.  responce from several different people
in the WFW group was that they didn't have any idea what the
word for mac people were doing.  "We don't talk to those guys, they
are upstairs" was the typical responce.

as far as i can see, there is no real effort (other than RTF (which is
not the same on the Mac as it is on the PC) (and may not even move
things well between WFW <--> word 5.0)) to make all the Words compatible.
i expected to be able to take my documents from WFW, Word for Mac,
and Word 5.0 w/o a hitch...  balderdash.  they are all different.
Word 5.0 and Word for Mac seem to be the closest cousins.
you might suggest that i'm not using the same printer driver w/ all
the versions and that that might screw me up...  but i'll bet you
that if you take a standard business letter, produced w/ a style
from the microsoft press published book "microsoft word style sheets"
by rinearson & woodcock, and print it w/ word for mac, word for windows,
and word 5.0, all using the apple laserwriter postcript driver, that
you will get different results.  ok, maybe word for mac and word 5.0
will be similar, but word for windows has a 50/50 chance of just
being screwed up, or being completely unrecognizeable.

when i have complained to microsoft about WFW <--> word 5.0
incompatibility, there was first denial re: my claims...  when
i substantiated my claims, i was told that i should be willing
to live w/ the incompatibilities in exchange for the the new
wonderous WFW capabilities...  i don't agree.

as i've said before, i like WFW.  i create all my new stuff in WFW.
but i keep word 5.0 around for viewing/printing older stuff...  or
if i want to use any of the rinearson/woodcock style sheets...  these
were a godsend when i first found them, and i don't recommend using
word 5.0 w/o them.  i'm just dissappointed that i can't use word 5.0
to create documents on my laptop, and then use WFW to do the final
preview/graphics inclusion prior to printing on my deskjet.  the two
programs are just too different.  i haven't tried works yet, but i
bet i'll have an easier time moving documents between works <--> WFW
than i do word 5.0 <--> WFW.

...bob