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From: long@rainbo.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite Professional Question
Message-ID: <8807251715.AA21808@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 25 Jul 88 20:15:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hi,

	I don't want to start the FullWrite flame wars again, so let's keep it
down, please :-), but I do have a couple of questions.

	This weekend, I finally got around to playing with the *demo* version
semi-seriously.  Impressive!  I want it!  Unfortunately, I found that a one
column, page-and-a-half document (about 12K), with 5 sidebars of drop caps,
made the response time unlivable.  I have an SE with 2.5 MB, and am running
System 6.0 Uni-Finder.  Clicking the mouse pointer engendered a SEVERAL SECOND
wait before the insertion point appeared!!  Double clicking, to select a word,
also took about 2 seconds.  Other actions, like finding and replacing, were
also interminably slow!  Now, this is not a big document, and obviously, I had
plaenty of free memory, so I'm at a loss to explain this.  Does anyone actually
use the real version for serious stuff on an SE, and is it usable?  I really
want FW, but there is a difference between being slow and being unusable!

	(Sadly, I haven't been able to find a dealer around here (Eastern
Mass.) that will put the program up for me, so I can't try the real thing!)

Assuming the release version is usable, can anyone tell me how to make
	it do a hanging indent paragraph (like this one)?

	Finally, how good (or bad) are the spell checker and thesaurus, and how
well integrated are they?

Thanks much...
Rich