Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:46576 comp.windows.ms:1711
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven!umd5!oppenhei
From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word for Windows Technical Reference Manual
Message-ID: <6271@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 19:03:08 GMT
References: <2959@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Lines: 47

In article <2959@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>
>	Someone was asking how to get the Word for Windows Technical
>	Reference manual.  I got mine in the mail just this past Tuesday.
>	To get it I mailed in the coupon that came with the software along
>	with my $23 dollars.  If you can't find the coupon lookup WordBasic
>	or Macro in the Reference Manual, it should tell you to order the
>	book and give you the address.  Don't feel bad if you didn't see
>	the coupon.  It took me two weeks to find it.  Then again, I was
>	not using the program during those two weeks.
>
>	Don't get too excited about getting the book because it is not 
>	very helpful.  It just lists the availiable commands and does
>	not give hardly any examples.  It looks like Microsoft is looking
>	to make money off HOW-TO books.  There are two other Word for Windows
>	how-to books listed in the back of the Tecnical Reference manual.

I would add that there is a file included in the Word for Windows distribution
disks that has list of the available commands. I would like to know how much
more info the book gives.

I think that Microsoft really gave us crapy docs in fancy wrapping (the hard
bound cover) Microsoft docs used to be terriffic, but over the last two
years they have become third rate rags. The Word for Windows manual didn't 
even have the usual Reader Response card. Either they knew it stunk or they
have gotten pretty high on themselves. The software is great. Now if we could
just get the good docs back.

Seeing how Dale doesn't even recommend it, I suggest that all WinWord users
boycott the Windows Technical Reference Manual. After all it should have been
included in the package in the first place. Doesn't Word 5.0 have a macro
reference in its doc package. MS needs a lessen here folks.

Signature under construction

       ______
      /     |                   Richard Oppenheimer
      |     \/                  Computer Science Center
      |     Ri                  University of Maryland
    __|__          __           College Park, Maryland ,USA
    |   |  |______|| \          oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (office)
    |   |   OO  OO--0-|         richard@wam.umd.edu (home)
******************************************************************
My employer cares not what I think and knows not what I say. The
opinons expressed herein are my own and are not endorsed by the
Computer Science Center.
******************************************************************