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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word Perfect for the Mac
Message-ID: <2845@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 17:07:53 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Well, I have been using Word Perfect on my Mac II for a short time now, and
I have come to the conclusing that it is just one or two versions away from
being a very excellent program.  It still has some problems right now.  It 
seems to have some problems when the spelling checker is active; double-spaced
text doesn't always appear double spaced.  Also, when editing a header,
sometimes lines will disappear from the screen (even though Word Perfect still
knows that they are there).  Anyone from Word Perfect out there?

There is one feature that I think every Mac program should implement for we
hard disk owners: the ability to set a default folder for all file saves and
retrieves.  This is definitely prevents hard disk clutter when more than one
person uses the same machine.  (I tend to forget to specify what folder, so
I will let the program do it for me.)

With a hard disk, the automatic timed backup feature is so fast that it is
not noticeable.  However, I don't know how well it would do for a 3.5" drive.
That could end up being annoying.

The spelling checker works very well, especially compared with the beta 
version.  I haven't tried the thesaurus yet.

So what does everyone else think of the package?  We probably will adopt this
software as a standard here at Ball State University, mainly because we
have 200 copies of the IBM version and the VAX version.

Michael Niehaus
UUCP: ..!{uunet,pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas