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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Subject: Re: Windows Apps questions!!!
Summary: minor functional differences between W4W 1.0 and 1.1
Keywords: windows, driver, vga, trident, oak
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.030053.21920@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 03:00:53 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.002659.27783@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Chris Landers) writes:
>In article <1991Mar20.074604.14958@wam.umd.edu> bjahn@wam.umd.edu (Byung-Joon Ahn) writes:
>>I have run Win 3.0 for a while, but I am still not as comfortable
>>with it and I have a few questions for those Windows experts out there:
>>1) What is the difference between Word for Windows v1.0 and v1.1? Are they
>>	both fully compatible with Win3.0 in all 3 modes? How about the same
>>	qquestion with Excel2.1c and 3.0?
>
>A: WinWord 1.1 is mainly an upgrade to the display graphics, buttons look 
>   more 3-D, window borders are prettier, etc.  Both are fully compatiable 
>   with Windows 3.0 and there is no major functionally difference.

The functional differences are for the most part in the number of file
formats that 1.1 can import over 1.0. 1.1 is *supposed* to be able to
read and write Word for the Mac 4.00c files, but I haven't got this to
work. (Partly because RTF works, and so I couldn't be bothered.)

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Anant Kartik Mithal                                     akm@cs.uoregon.edu
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