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From: perley@trub (Donald P Perley)
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Subject: Re: WP -> Excellence 2.0 converter?  WP Replacement suggestions?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 19:22:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.141048.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jun10.141048.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>, aden@vf writes:
>I currently have Wordperfect on my A500, primarily for my wife, as she is
>writing a book with it, and doing work for classes in it.

>I like the look of Excellence v2.0, but are there other WP packages out there
>that can handle large (>50 page) files reliably?  Yes, I realize memory addition
>certainly aids in this.

WordPerfect is a little clumsy with very large documents because it has to 
basically scan the whole document prior to a point to figure out what all the
format attributes will be at that point.  You spend some time snoozing if
you like to randomly jump around.  I suspect this will be a problem with
most word processors.  There are some that store format information at the 
start of each page, but I don't know any for the amiga off hand.

-don perley





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