Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!gssc!jimd
From: jimd@gssc.UUCP (James DePorter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Processing.  Why the silence?
Message-ID: <5797@gssc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 23:56:31 GMT
References: <1988Nov4.221606.20356@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <430058@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jimd@gssc.UUCP (James DePorter)
Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Beaverton Or
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In article <430058@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes:
>
>WriteNow: Same as MacWrite but has more capabilities and is a little harder
>to learn. It would appeal to the same users as MacWrite plus people who
>feel they need a little more control over the appearance of their documents.
>

One other comment about WriteNow is that you can't move the insertion point
without using the mouse. I tried QuickKeys to be able to use the arrow keys,
page keys etc in WriteNow. I could move up and down the doc, but found no
way to move the insertion point (start typing and the screen would return
to the previous location). QK's has a mouse click under the menu, but sure
wouldn't do anything in WriteNow. MS Word may be harder, but at least Word
allows me to use either the keyboard or the mouse.

jimd

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