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Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word

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From: Dave Klotzbach
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 19:49
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> In article <129@fritz.UUCP>, zemon@fritz.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
>Does Word:
>Have a thesaurus?
no

>Keep page boundary indicators current?
no

>Handle columns? In a WYSIWYG fashion?
no

>Have math capabilities?
not that I know of

>Have interactive macros?
no

>Have document conversion facilities for DCF, DIF, Wordstar?
Yes - included on the utility disk in both version 1.10 and 2.0

>Have a merge facility?
Yes - As part of the printing facility

>Have automatic table of contents & indexing facilities?
no - or at least none that I have found

>Have redline and strikeout capabilities?
YES -It does have strike-out capability from the format character facility

>Online reference?
yes

>Escape to DOS?
Yes - From LIBRARY this is how spell is invoked from WORD.
>-- 
>Henry M. Halff                                       Halff Resources, Inc.
>halff@utah-cs.ARPA                 4918 33rd Road, N., Arlington, VA 22207
>
>
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From: klotz@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Klotzbach)
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 14:49:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 14:49:07 1986
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