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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
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Date: 21 May 88 19:13:43 GMT
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   Well, I've been using FW for almost 20 minutes know and I've discovered a
few things.

      1.  This is the first WP for the mac to make FULL use of the mac interface
      2.  BUG: If you have a sidebar icon selected, then choose a command from
          the sidebar menu, when you return to the document the icon will still
          be selected but the menu will be gone.
      3.  FEATURE: You have to know the dimensions of your sidebar to begin with
          in order to place it. Your can't size it to fit your text or picture
          or whatever. I was converting my resume to FW from MSWORD. My resume
          had two side-by-side paragrams (not supported as such in FW) for
          my school and home addresses. These were a little less then a half
          an inch thick, which is the lower limit for sidebar height.
          Getting the paragraphs into the sidebar was easy, the hard part was
          getting it to fit properly in my document. See, what I really want is
          a little drag handle in the sidebar panel which changes the stuff
          defined by the place command. I also want to be able to drag the 
          sidebar around in the page view.
          Note that for most things, this isn't a problem as you can flow the
          text around strangely shaped objects easily, its just in this case that
          I have the problem because I have a long, thin, sidebar which I didn't
          know the dimensions of.
     4.   I love it.

Pierce

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