Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!mdf From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: MS Word vs. WordPerfect Message-ID: <1230@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 22:07:17 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1230 Posted: Sat Feb 1 22:07:17 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 14:12:40 EST References: <504@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.) Lines: 57 Summary: In <504@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: > >MSWord's spell checker, aside from not having the pheonetic capabilities at >all, actually takes the words it feels are misspelled in a document and >presents them to you in a list TOTALLY OUT OF CONTEXT, for YOU to fix; it >can't fix them. Completely untrue of version 2.0 (released at least 12 months ago). >The other thing which kills MSWord is its total lack of any reasonable indent >function. Govt. and military documents are filled with the following kind >of construction: > > a. a tab, followed by a letter or number and a period, and then an indent > beginning on the exact same line, as you are seeing now. MSWord has > no rational way of doing this; you have to type the whole paragraph > sans indents, indent the whole paragraph forward, and then indent the > "tab a." back, like a Polish two-step or something. A military > secretary or attache would go ape-**** trying to use MSWord. Also completely untrue. Set up a style sheet entry with the first line set to have a left margin of whatever your tab is, and have the rest use the proper left margin for the rest of the paragraph. Also set a tab in this entry where the left margin is for the majority of the paragraph. Keystrokes to implement this (once it is a style sheet entry, for example 'hi' for hanging indent) is a. . You are either using an old version, or have never read the manual. >It is interesting to note, by the way, that WordPerfect, which is far and >away the most serious PC word processor, is not copy-protected. This is, unfortunately, a true statement. Word's copy protection is a pain, but is easily removed. The spelling checker cannot hold a candle to that of WordPerfect, although your criticism above is untrue. WordPerfect 4.1 has a wonderful thesaurus and can do math, both lacking in MS Word. However, the style sheets and MS Word's method of displaying attributes is far better than WP. REVEAL CODES indeed! I own copies of both, and use WP solely for documents with math requirements. -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark D. Freeman Guest account at The Ohio State University StrongPoint Systems, Inc. mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP 209 Olentangy Street Mdf@Ohio-State.CSNET Columbus, OH 43202-2340 Mdf%Ohio-State@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA !cbosgd!osu-eddie!mdf I disclaim even my very existance. Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. -- Gary Zukav from "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>