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Mark D. Freeman writes:

>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).

I'm looking at 2.0;  I don't know what exactly you're looking at.  It presents
its little list of misspelled words to you alphabetically and, typically, can
suggest spellings for about 1/5 of them.  The others, you fix, again out of
context, which is not as easy as fixing the words where they appear (or having
WordPerfect fix them) in the document.  I don't particularly mean to insult
MicroSoft with this comparison;  EVERY other PC class spelling checker, in fact,
every other spelling checker I've ever seen on ANY hardware is a total joke
compared to that which SSI has devised for WordPerfect.

>>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.

You call this reasonable????!!!!  .....  With WordPerfect, you just type 
tab a. f4 (indent) and then the rest of your paragraph.  THAT's reasonable.
Actually, using WordPerfect's automatic outlining feature, you could get
by with just a tab followed by an indent, two keystrokes.