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From: sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: spacing (MS-WORD flame, actually)
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 08:14:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 08:14:16 1985
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> By and large, the things that WORD has problems with (other than slow
> printing on the LaserWriter) seem to be features that don't even exist in
> MacWrite.

I have a few gripes (in addition to the ones already posted) that
are not related to WORD "features":

1)  Changing fonts is awkward. I found this out when using the Princeton font
    for equations in running text. Someone else mentioned this in a recent
    posting.
2)  It doesn't show you running headers and footers. Also it ignores the
    margins when printing them, so that I had to produce several drafts to
    get my headers lined up right.  And it takes several levels of menus (3 ?)
    to set up a header or footer.
3)  The paragraph format is held at the end of the para, and can be deleted
    by the backspace key. I was deleting a bunch of stuff with the backspace
    key and didn't take my finger off fast enough - the preceeding para
    suddenly reformatted itself. Took me a while to work out what had
    happened.

I use MacW most of the time, if only because I can convert from MacW to WORD
but not vice versa.
-- 
Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK
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