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From: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
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Subject: Re: Application not present
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Date: 3 Aug 88 12:28:08 GMT
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One of the many bugs still existing in Word 3.0x is that occasionally and
without warning it messes up the desktop file. Double clicking a document
gives you an error box. To fix the problem rebuild the disk that word is
on and the disk the documents are on.

I would like to offer a warning about Word 3.0x. We have had many weird
printing problems with it. It will do things like leave 3/4 of a page 
blank. The fix is to delete and replace a "return" in the missing junk.
Another far more serious problem is it will ignore some paragraphs when
printing to the laser. The paragraph is not "invisible", it shows up in the
document and in page preview. When printed it leaves the paragraph out and
reformats the rest of the document. This isn't so bad if you are doing short
documents but with a 400 page thesis this can easily go undetected. We will
probably drop Word as an acceptable word processor because of these printing
problems.

Richard Crispin
Dept. of Psychology             Bitnet: psych@watdcs 
University of Waterloo          Unix  : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1
(519)885-1211 ext 2879