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From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fullwrite Professional Question...
Message-ID: <2285@spray.CalComp.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 14:46:23 GMT
References: <6022@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <53074@sun.uucp> <2279@spray.CalComp.COM> <53272@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson)
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In article <53272@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
 [a rather nice description of sidebars omitted]

>>On the other
>>hand, it appears to lack some features I use every day in Word.
>
>Like what? I've found two: functionality is lacking in styles (especially
>"Based on" styles; and paragraph formatting and text leading is primitive.
  
  Exactly! I use these things more than anything else, almost. Especially
  the "Based on" styles. I really need these, because I use a lot of 
  related styles and change them as I experiment to format a document. So
  I can just change the base style and all the others follow. Losing that
  would really hurt my productivity.
>
>Neither of these are major problems. You can get around them fairly easily.
  Tell me how, and I'm a likely convert. Now that I know what they're
  about, sidebars sound like the one major thing I miss in Word. But they're
  not as important to me as the power of styles.

  Perhaps FullWrite will correct these few (but critical, to me) shortcomings 
  in the next release. I may have to wait. :-(
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