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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing Windows Help Files
Message-ID: <70050@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:58:47 GMT
References: <1991PMWed.09.8666@dircon.uucp>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1991PMWed.09.8666@dircon.uucp> uad1031@dircon.uucp (Julian Templeman) writes:
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|Catching up with news after Christmas, I find that....
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|John R. Burgoyne <burgoyne@eng.umd.edu> writes:
|> Has anyone successfully created other than trivial .RTF
|> files using something other than one of the Word family
|> of word processors?
|
|tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
|>
|>Indeed, the RTF format is ASCII, but there it's RIDICULOUS to think of
|>writing real help documents (100-200K) in RTF by hand!  Right now, I 
|think
|>WfW is the best bet.

After suggesting MSWorks as one option, I realized there is an even 
cheaper way for people to get their feet wet making small RTF documents:
namely get a copy of TryWord -- the "working model" of WfW.  The major
restriction of the working model seems to be to restrict document
sizes as typed in or printed to 7K characters [the RTF expansions can be bigger]
This limits one to a typical 3-4 page document.  Other than that, the
working model seems to be quite close in functionality and appearance to 
"the real thing."

$10 from MS
$30 included with the "Learn Word for Windows Now" text.

Disclaimer:  obviously, this offer is made by MS in the hopes that one
will decide to spend the money to get the unrestricted "full" version of WfW.
In posting this suggestion, I am also hoping most people will come to this 
decision.