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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Fullwrite dead?
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.220641.15574@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 22:06:41 GMT
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In article <5488@internal.Apple.COM> kessler@applelink.apple.com (Todd Kessler) writes:
>Since there seems to be some FullWrite users watching...
>
>I bought FW1.0 when it came out and upgraded to 1.1.  I then found a bug 
>that the people at Ashton-Tate confirmed that I simply could not live 
>with.  I'm wondering if anyone else out there ran into it as well.
>
>It's called "Creeping Sidebars" in Ashton-Tate lingo.  In other words, for 
>EVERY mouse click or EVERY key stroke, certain "infected" sidebars will 
>actually MOVE (yes, by themselves) ONE pixel down the page.  After long 
>periods of typing I actually had sidebars sitting at the bottom of my 
>pages, when they were originally placed in the middle!!  Ashton-Tate's 
>solution/suggestion:  COPY and PASTE your creeping sidebars back to there 
>original positions before printing...What...WHAT!!!!  You go through 50 
>pages and find creeping sidebars, I'm switching to Word...
>
>Anyway, just curious if anyone else has seen this and found a more 
>suitable fix.
>

  I too have run into this problem.  The sidebars in question are always the
first thing on a page.  My fix was to put a blank line before each of the
sidebars in question, but if they float with the text, and the text moves up or
down, the formatting can get really messy.  :/

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