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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Word Quick Review (long)
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 00:38:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 00:38:30 1985
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> First, Copy Protection:
> ...
> Of course, the possibility of a "worm" (as in Mac Pascal) always exists, so
> that my attempt to copy the master disk may eventually come to naught.

I dislike copy protection, but to Microsoft's credit they have not adopted
a vile scheme like that used by MacPascal.  The copy protection on all Mac
products from Microsoft is only sufficient to discourage naive users from
copying the programs.  Anyone with access to a few simple utilities will have
no trouble using Multiplan, Chart or Word from a hard disk without inserting a
"master" disk (I have not yet tried File so I cannot comment on it).

> Disk Space Requirements:  Word is a very large program (about 124K). The
> master disk shipped by Microsoft only has 29K free. After deleting all
> unneeded printer drivers, the sample memo, and the help file, I had about
> 48K free on my resulting Word disk.  Thus it is not possible to keep
> a copy of Macpaint and Word for example, on the same disk.  This is very
> bad for those of us  who put lots of illustrations (again, the technical
> writing problem) in our documents.  A hard disk may be a solution, but then
> you will have to reinsert the word master disk when you first boot word
> from the hard disk.

Your comments assume that it is necessary to keep a copy of the System and
Finder on the Word disk.  I make it a practice to keep applications on disks
which do not contain the System or Finder.  Even if you are not especially
expert on the Mac it is easy to run applications off a disk that does not have
a system.

>...
> w.p.  Documentation does not explain how to replace Microsoft supplied
> fonts with your own!!! Absolutely no reference is made to Resource Mover or
> Resource Editor.

Why should Microsoft do Apple's documentation?

I do not want people to get the impression that Word is perfect, but I feel
that this "review" was a little more negative than the points made justified.
I have not yet used Word long enough to make substantive comments other than
the obvious fact that it is much more powerful than MacWrite.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl

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