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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Changes in Word 4.0a
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Date: 29 Mar 90 11:00:32 GMT
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> dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) writes:

> There was recently some talk about Word 4.0a.  I'm just curious about
> what changes they made to it besides better handling of Expressionist
> and MacDraw.

Me too.  The BIG bug I want to see fixed is its inability to work in
integral multiples or sane decimal fractions of metric units.  I want
to set my margins to 1.0cm, not 0.937 or whatever it insists I meant.

Anyone at Microsoft care to comment?  Is the thing doomed to think in
gallons and furlongs forever?  WriteNow doesn't have this problem, and
that alone is enough to make me prefer it.

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