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From: rowley@ORVILLE.NAS.NASA.GOV (Karl Rowley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Microsoft Word for the ST
Message-ID: <8802072043.AA15363@orville.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Feb 88 20:43:44 GMT
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I saw Microsoft Word for sale yesterday at HT Electronics in Sunnyvale.

The advantages of the program are that it seems to be a decent 
word-processor, it can use multiple fonts, and it produces output with
GEM metafiles.  However it does not include a spelling checker.

The package comes with GDOS, and a device driver and fonts for the Atari
dot matrix printer.  Included is a set-up program for GDOS.  It appeared
that Epson-compatible and 24 pin printers are not supported for output
of GEM metafiles in this package.  They were using device drivers and fonts
from Easydraw on an FX-80 compatible in the store, and the output looked good.

The GDOS document and utility programs look good.  Atari should consider
selling the GDOS programs and documents separately from the Microsoft Word
package.  

At the store they had a copy of a utility program that could convert 
Mac and Amiga fonts to GDOS fonts.  


				Karl Rowley
				...ucbvax!ames!orville.nas.nasa.gov!rowley
				rowley@orville.nas.nasa.gov

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