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From: kautz@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: word 3.0
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Date: Sat, 14-Mar-87 19:18:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 14 19:18:34 1987
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To reiterate the comments of some previous posters:  Word 3.0 is NOT
a finished product.  Certainly no body should pay full price for the
state it is in now.  Word 1.05 crashed my mac about twice in as many
years of heavy use.  3.0 crashes several times a day.  The latest
bug:  if it gets low on memory, it puts up a warning box, telling you
to save and quit.  But if this happens when you are opening a file,
it doesn't abort the open -- as soon as you click ok, the file starts to
be read again, and the alert box comes up again!  The only way out is
to reboot!  (Certainly NEVER use word under switcher on 512e-- you'll be
sorry!)

Word is definitely a camel (as in a horse designed by...).  Glossaries
(two kinds!)  work differently from styles work differently from
formulas work differently from indexes, etc.  The basic idea of
toggling between a view where some formatting commands are explicit
(like Tex) and where they are WYSIWYG is good.  But they didn't adopt
a uniform macro language, and don't let the user define his/her own macros.

Style sheets are another good idea that comes up short.  You can define
styles for entire paragraphs but NOT for arbitrary text.  Therefore you
cannot, e.g., create a style called EMPHASIZE, apply it to certain words, and 
later decide if you want italics or underline.

For all my griping, I'm still using it (but carefully!).  One nice
out: I can always save my files in 1.05 format (Microsoft should get a
prize for providing downward compatibility) and go back to using the
workhorse.
-- 
---- Henry Kautz
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