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From: weinhous@dinorah.wustl.edu (Martin S. Weinhous)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Microsoft Word Queries
Keywords: ASCII, Strikeout, Redline
Message-ID: <933@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 89 15:03:22 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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Two questions about Microsoft Word (4.0 for the Mac) ...

1.  How can one prepare ASCII text for later upload to another computer
without the following happening?

I select a monospace font such as geneva and "save as" the document as a
text file with line breaks (olso setting this as the document default).
After additional editing I do a "save" and the screen font changes to
something other than geneva!  I've tried to get around the problem by
redefining the normal style for the document, but that has not worked.

2.  We prepare manuscripts that have several authors.  In the past, we
have used (under WordPerfect 4.2 on a DEC Rainbow, starting in 1986) the
common editing tools Redline, Strikeout and automatic "finalizing."

Redline adds in-the-margin marks for proposed additions to the document.
Strikeout runs a horizontal line through text that is proposed for
deletion.  Automatic finalizing actually deletes Strikout text and
removes the margin marks from Redline text.  When several people have to
look at proposed changes in a document, these tools are very helpful.

Word 4.0 seems to only have Strikeout (Microsoft calls it strikethru).
Am I missing something?  Do Redline and automatic finalization exist, and
if so where/how?

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

					Marty Weinhous
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