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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Really solution to Word 3.01 problem)
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Date: 17 May 88 14:57:45 GMT
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In article <7821@drutx.ATT.COM> clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:
>From article <3694@fluke.COM>, by moriarty@fluke.UUCP:
>> Customs styles, why they look adequate for my purposes, are still missing
>> two features 
>
>I understand a third very substantial missing feature is inheritance -- 
>FullWrite styles can't inherit from other styles as Word's can.

That's an excellent point, one I'll have to add to the checklist between FW
and Word.  However, I'd again have to point out how difficult it is to use
the Style Sheets in Word, and inheritance; however, MS is supposed to be
working very hard on making Style Sheets easier to use.

>The solution is to select the whole paragraph, and from Format menu, select 
>Plain Text, which clears any formatting above the basic style.  If you like 
>keyboard shortcuts, you could instead type clover-shift-spacebar against the
>selection.

That does work, but it's not very intuitive.  The trouble with Word is, I
run into problems with Word just often enough that I've forgotten the
solution to the problem.  However, it's rumored that Word 4.0 will have
intelligent style sheets which eliminate this problem (among other good
things), so MS isn't ignoring the problem.

>Have fun -- I'd like to try FullWrite, being just as interested as
>anyone else.  It does unfortunately sound a lot less powerful than
>Word, so far, and the notes about bombs on large selections, etc.,

As power goes, I side with Chuq; there are a ton of things that I can do
with FW that I can't with Word, and only a few that I can't do with FW.
More importantly, the things I *want* to do with a word processor are
supported in FullWrite, and are extremely easy to understand to boot.
However, Microsoft is certainly not sitting on their laurels, so we will
hopefully have two good high-level word processing programs by the end of
the year.  At this point, I'm not experiencing any bombs with FW, and have
no reason left to use Word.  We'll see when 4.0 comes out...

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