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Summary:

In <504@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>
>MSWord's spell checker, aside from not having the pheonetic capabilities at
>all, actually takes the words it feels are misspelled in a document and 
>presents them to you in a list TOTALLY OUT OF CONTEXT, for YOU to fix;  it 
>can't fix them.

Completely untrue of version 2.0 (released at least 12 months ago).

>The other thing which kills MSWord is its total lack of any reasonable indent
>function.  Govt. and military documents are filled with the following kind
>of construction:
>
>      a. a tab, followed by a letter or number and a period, and then an indent
>	 beginning on the exact same line, as you are seeing now.  MSWord has 
>	 no rational way of doing this;  you have to type the whole paragraph
>	 sans indents, indent the whole paragraph forward, and then indent the
>	 "tab a." back, like a Polish two-step or something.  A military 
>	 secretary or attache would go ape-**** trying to use MSWord.

Also completely untrue.  Set up a style sheet entry with the first line set
to have a left margin of whatever your tab is, and have the rest use the
proper left margin for the rest of the paragraph.  Also set a tab in this
entry where the left margin is for the majority of the paragraph. Keystrokes
to implement this (once it is a style sheet entry, for example 'hi' for
hanging indent) is <Alt-H> <Alt-I> a. <TAB> <type paragraph here>.

You are either using an old version, or have never read the manual.

>It is interesting to note, by the way, that WordPerfect, which is far and
>away the most serious PC word processor, is not copy-protected.

This is, unfortunately, a true statement.  Word's copy protection is a pain,
but is easily removed.  The spelling checker cannot hold a candle to that of
WordPerfect, although your criticism above is untrue.  WordPerfect 4.1 has
a wonderful thesaurus and can do math, both lacking in MS Word.

However, the style sheets and MS Word's method of displaying attributes is far
better than WP.  REVEAL CODES indeed!

I own copies of both, and use WP solely for documents with math requirements.



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