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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Excel and Word on pcs and macs
Keywords: Stupid argument
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Date: 21 Mar 91 02:33:37 GMT
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In article <3016@beguine.UUCP> mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) writes:
|I am stunned at Phil Ngai's assertion that Word for Windows is
|much better than the Macintosh version. How so? There are a

I just started using the tiny Mac and so far I see that Mac Word
doesn't have the ribbon (it does have a ruler) and doesn't have fields.
The mail merge stuff feels like I've gone back to Word for DOS.

As for speed, comparing an SE/30 (with a 512 pixel line) to a 20 MHz
386 (with an 800 pixel line) I will grant the Mac seems perhaps a tiny
bit faster, but not by much and it's doing a lot less work.

|This entire matter is way out of hand. Everyone knows better
|than the hardware and software people how it all should be
|done. My feeling is, if you are such a *&^%$ know-it-all, why
|don't you design, produce, and market this be-all and end-all

I didn't say I know better than MS. I am saying WinWord seems to
be a later and more advanced Word than Mac Word. No doubt Mac
Word will catch up eventually. But I believe Windows will receive
preferential treatment.

|Take the C:\> prompt. To what does that refer? A disk, a command
|line, what? A new user cannot possibly deduce from it to what it
|refers.
|Now take the disk icon that actually looks like a floppy. It may

Go ahead and bash DOS. What a waste of time. Do you think there
is a single PC user on the planet that doesn't know about Windows?

|The trash can is a clear and meaningful
|icon to ***any*** of the beginners I have taught. The C:\>

Trash can sucks when there's no alternative. Why doesn't
the delete key work?

How come page up and page down are so inconsistent?
Sometimes they work.
Sometimes they don't.

Very confusing.

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Help! I just got a Macintosh. Anyone got a magnifying glass?