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From: maxg@tekig4.UUCP (Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS Word vs. WordPerfect
Message-ID: <502@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 00:56:58 EST
Article-I.D.: tekig4.502
Posted: Wed Feb 12 00:56:58 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:57:11 EST
References: <504@imsvax.UUCP> <86@fritz.UUCP>
Reply-To: maxg@tekig4ernsey.UUCP (Max Guernsey)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <86@fritz.UUCP> zemon@fritz.UUCP (Art zemon) writes:
>Ted,
>
>I'm afraid you have simply exhibited an ignorance of the way
>Word is used.  I would have replied directly but you have badly
>misrepresented Word publicly and that's unfair to those who have
>never seen the program.
>
>
>In article <504@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>>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.
>
>This is also simply wrong.  I would define a paragraph type which
>has a left indent of (for example) 1 inch but with the first
>line indented -0.5 inches.  A tab is automatically created at
>the 1 inch point.  I would simply type "a.<TAB>a tab,
>followed..." to get the paragraph you have described.
>
>One of the nicest features of Word is style sheets.  I can
>collect all of the various paragraph definitions into a style
>sheet which I can attach to various documents.  I might, for
>example, define the above indented paragraph as type "IP".  To
>begin writing indented paragraphs I would simply type <ALT-i><p>
>and forget about any messy reformatting or margin adjusting.

Also IP can be defined differently in different style sheets
so you can have one style for the draft copies and another
for the final version simply by changing the style sheets.

>-- 
>	-- Art Zemon
>	   FileNet Corp.
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Max Guernsey
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