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From: reyn@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Word Wrapping in WFW
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Date: 31 May 90 19:51:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!reyn    May 31 13:51:00 1990


With all of the discussion of Word for Windows, I am confident that an
experienced user out there will lend me some of their opinions and
expertise.

I bought the $9.95 WFW demo for my wife to see if it would be a good
replacement for the Apple Writer she's been using on her Apple II since
1983.  Needless to say, she's not going to be that hard to impress, and
it's more my desire to move everything over to WIndows than her needs which
are dictating her choice of a new word processor.

My wife writes fiction for a living, that means that she's in front of the
computer writing voluminous amounts of text all day long, and as a side
note she actually reads the text that she has written on the monitor.

With both the WFW demo and the Microsoft Write which comes with Windows 3.0
the text that is displayed on the screen is, to put it mildly, attrocious
to read.  Let me interject that I have tried various combinations of font
style and sizes, but htey either are hard on the eyes, or much more
disturbedly cause the screen to scroll rather than word-wrap at the right
margin (as indicated by the ruler).  Contrast this to the extremely
readable font which the notepad uses, and the result is a rather confused
person ( me ) who is sure I must be missing something.

The WFW demo doesn't mention this behaivior ( other than to say that
Windows will use the most similar font ) and the manual for Write shows
illustrations which correspond correctly between the ruler and the display.

I dis find a "Draft" mode in WFW, but if that is the mode she'll have to
stay in while composing, why do I need a GUI?

As I stated earlier, I've probably missed something.  Help would be
appreciated.

			      John Reynolds, husband of the soon to be
			      famous Katharine Eliska Kimbriel