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From: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss)
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Subject: Re: Word 4.0 crashes under MultiFinder
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Date: 26 Oct 89 18:40:58 GMT
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In article <TJFS.89Oct26095508@tadtec.uucp> tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes:
>... The Microsoft helpline react incredulously with "There are no
>bugs in Word 4.0" (how do they KNOW??!?)

	This is ridiculous. There is a documented bug that has bitten
me repeatedly: copy a large picture from word into the clipboard. Word
messes up the (so I was told) 128th byte. As an example do this with
an equation created by expressionist. Often expressionist will choke
on the mangled picture and  crash. 
	
	This bug makes Word 4.0 pretty difficult for me to use, being
a Mathematician/Physicist!
	
	I believe there are several other bugs. For example type at
the end of a paragraph, just before a paragraph with a different style,
say a style that includes boldface, or outlined text. Now type "
command-shift-+ 2 command-shift-space" and then continue typing. Often the
text now acquires the style of the following paragraph, and no amount
of command-shift-spacing will fix it, unless you select the offending
text and then type command-shift-space. This is extremely aggravating,
and never happened in 3.02. 
	Has anyone else experienced this one? I could go on....but
am not sure of my remaining complaints.

		Jim Meiss	
		jdm@euclid.Colorado.edu