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From: billp@hplsla.HP.COM (Bill Pritchard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word for Windows
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Date: 22 Mar 90 02:09:55 GMT
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*Some cold water for Word for Windows shoppers.
*
*The subscript/superscript functions along with the fixed
*line spacing are broke. At least on the copy we got.
**Needles to say WfW is useless for those of us needing to do
*technical typing, unless you like shoddy looking output.


So true!  My own copy of WfW arrived last week and it was going to be
used for writing a research paper which requires lots of super/subscripts.
When I called Microsoft today (3/21/90), they said, "its supposed to be
that way".  The person also said that there would be no guarantee of it
being "changed" (not "fixed") on future upgrades.  Apparently the
word processor that comes with Windows (Write?) also has the same
defect:  so it's not just that WfW is at Rev 1.0.  My copy is being
returned for a full refund and I'm now looking for an alternative...
any comments?.

By the way, one work-around was to "fix" the line spacing to a specific
point size by using a -number.  This has to be done on just that line so
it has to be made a separate paragraph (no more word-wrap!).  When I tried
it my display went crazy and the keyboard locked up.
							Bill Pritchard