Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!rex!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!cmhgate!p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Adam.Frix From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Global subscript change in Word 4? Message-ID: <255852.282EBFA2@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 12 May 91 21:53:07 GMT Sender: ufgate@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH Lines: 28 stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: > > It is strange that on the PC, Word has characters styles > > (has had for years). > > That's because the PC version has generally been about 2 > versions ahead of the Mac version (mutter mutter). Aren't > they up to version 6 for the PC? We've been stuck with 4.0 > (or minor permutations thereof) for nearly three years if I > remember correctly. PC Word is up to 5.5 for DOS and 1.something for Windows. (And the version 5.5/DOS did nothing but offer better document conversion to/from Windows and Mac, and otherwise piss people off **big** time by changing the way features are accessed from the keyboard. Hey, sure, might not be a quickly intuitable way to do things, but to users of Word 5.0 and before, it was a known quantity and therefore quick and easy to do. Word 5.5 changed that completely around, which amounted to learn ing a brand new program. Dumb, Microsoft, really dumb.) But please notice: Word 4/Mac has been out for 2 years now, and has had tables all along. And tables, while not yet perfect, are a _major_ improvement over side-by-side paragraphs. And yet, where is Word 5.x/DOS? Still at side-by-side paragraphs. And how about moving around positioned paragraphs in preview mode? Word 4/Mac, no problem. Word 5.x/DOS, not possible. The list goes on. There are some things that I find indispensable that are available only in Word 4/Mac and not in Word 5.x/DOS. So, to say that "the PC versions have always been 2 versions ahead" just tells me that you only look at the version numbers, not the contents of the programs. In some ways Word 4/Mac is well advanced of Word 5.x/DOS. Just because 5 is a higher number than 4 doesn't mean it's a more advanced version. (PS: if anyone at Microsoft is listening in on this, here's an idea for tables: I would like to use tables to do parallel columns. To be a completely useful feature, these "parallel columns" (table columns) must be able to be mirrored when mirrored margins are set up. I need two columns, an inside wide column and an outside narrow column. I could set up a table in Word 4/Mac with a wide and a narrow column, but I need the wide/narrow to go inside/outside, not just left/right as it would do normally in Word 4/Mac.) --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!20.18!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG