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From: a468@mindlink.UUCP (Graham Parkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for word processor info
Message-ID: <596@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 89 02:35:55 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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   As for the utility of Excellence!:    Common complaints about it are it's
speed.  This is not a
real problem for most operations considering that it is a WYSIWYG
program handling alot of graphics.  The frustrations that I have
are with handling placing Text accurately whenusing proportional
fonts.  The screen pisplay oftem shows things very differently than what you
get from the printout.  The spell check and the thesauras
work very well within the program although the spell check should
allow the machine to just mark all the mispelled words instead of
your having to sit there while it chugs all through the document.
Speaking of documents the manual although lavish exhibits very little
thought about ease of use.  The user has to wade through all sorts of
supposedly "user friendly" drivel to actually find anything about
the program unlike Superbase 2 which has a truely excellent manual.
Many functions such as the macro facility refered to as a glossary
are inadequately explained and the index is a joke containing all sorts
of contextually incorrect references generated by the progams owm
indexing feature working away mindlessly while the dolt that wrote
the manual dithered.  All in all the program is quite OK.
   Does anyone know how to get good positioned output while using
a proportional fonts.  I've tried using Tabs but they only substitute
in blanks instead of TABing to an absolute position.  The problem
wreaks havok when writing resumes etc with short prefixes to lines.