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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: merge quotes in Word 4 -- Try Nisus' Mail Merge
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Date: 28 Nov 90 19:40:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: cckweiss@pollux's message of 28 Nov 90 17:18:59 GMT

In article <9355@aggie.ucdavis.edu> cckweiss@pollux writes:

>Rich Holmes responds to Jon Matousek's continual plugs for Nisus with
>the following musical question:
>
>Is anyone else as sick and tired as I am of seeing this BLATANT
>ADVERTISING
>for Nisus any time someone asks a question about MS Word??
>
>Well, Rich, I can't give you a definitive answer to that question, since
>I don't know exactly how sick and tired you are. However, I am really
>goddam sick and tired of it myself. I find it particularly irritating
>when there may be a way to solve the problem in Word. Nisus may be the
>greatest thing since sliced bread, but when someone asks for help with
>Word, it seems like they deserve the courtesy of getting some help with
>Word, not an unsolicited piece of electronic junk mail.
>
>Now, just so this post isn't pure noise, here's a handy trick I found
>last night. I needed to print a legal size page out of PageMaker to my
>Laserwriter IINTX. Alas, I have no legal size paper tray, and PM
>refused to print the entire document even if I hand fed a sheet of legal
>paper. Solution: dump the file to disk as pure PostScript (NOT EPS), and
>send it to the printer using Font Downloader or equivilent. Worked like
>a charm.
>
>Ken Weiss
>krweiss@ucdavis.edu
>.

This is just plain silly.  Whenever someone posts a question about how
to do something, if you can't do it in the program, people COMMONLY
recommend a program that can do it, or deos it better/easier/faster.
If Jon has irritated anyone, perhaps he should more blatantly point
out the standard disclaimer:

I *DO* work for Paragon.  Take my recommendations with that in mind.

So far, he has not lied or given wrong feedback (that I've seen), so
you really have no room to complain.

If he's the only one giving feedback, you should be goddamn happy
there's someone, ANYONE, who cares enough to even answer your
questions.

Some people have no sense of reality.  What do you expect, for chrissakes?

jas
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