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From: cctr120@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Brendon Wyber, C.S.C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Mac's Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.031444.5@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 14 Jan 91 14:29:12 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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I have not got, nor do I ever intend to get a word processor for my Amiga.
However I am an extensive user of the Mac's MS Word and I have to say it is a
very good program.

Someone wanted a list of specifics, so here are some on them. I do not know how
many of these exist in amiga WPs, and I don't really care.

Note most of these feature are only useful for larger documents. Lets face it,
letters can be done on a line editor, or even written by hand (if anyone still
remembers how :-) ). Some of them are also hard to explain without showing you.

1. Style Sheets. Very useful. A style sheet consists of a set of text
formatting commands. Thus if you want to change the font or style of a
particular type of text (for example headings would be seperate style, or the
writting that goes under picture, or even quotes) you just need to change the
style sheet and all occurances of that text style are changed.

I cannot express the usefulness of Style sheets enough. They are just very very
very VERY VERY useful. Ok so I can express it. :-)

2. Dictionary spelling support. Useful. Word also comes with an add on 
Thesaurus but it isn't built it.

3. Outlining. Allows you to define heading, sub headings, sub-sub-headings
and text. Ties in with style sheets very well. Allows you to move large chuck
of the document about.

4. Built in mathematical type setting.

5. Does lines and boxes.

6. Built in table support. Sort of works like a spread sheet.

7. Allows you to put in postscript commands. (If you know any Potscript)

8. Lots of text formatting option, subscript, super script, various types of
underlining, lots of tabbing controls, etc, etc, etc.

9. Section support so you can break the document up into seperate sections with
different page numbering styles, footers, headers, etc.

10. You can have columns. Also you can have paragraphs of text appeaing in odd
places with the other text flowing around it.

I could go on forever but I won't bore you. However if I did get an amiga WP
are there any with Style Sheets?

Be seeing you,

Brendon Wyber                     Computer Services Centre,
b.wyber@csc.canterbury.ac.nz      University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

"Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."