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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Processor (and Mac) statistics....
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Date: 12 Dec 88 19:42:23 GMT
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In article <81009@sun.uucp> chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>	o For all the bitching and moaning, when people have work to get
>	done, they turn to word. It's not just dominant, it's overwhelming.

I often wonder if this isn't so much Word's abilities as Word's popularity.
When writing articles for various magazines, I would prefer writing them in
FullWrite; however, the editors and publishers don't have FWP, they have
Word.  I could always save the copy I send to them in MacWrite format, but
often there are formats I've used (two columns, imbedded graphics, etc.)
which cannot be ported into MacWrite.  So I have to use Word.  Gag.

However, I don't know if that is a common complaint.  When Ashton-Tate
talked about FullWrite, I asked if there were any plans to have FWP save in
Word 3.0 format.  I was told later that Microsoft was very proprietary about
other word processors using the Word 3.0 format.  I've heard other stories
from Microsoft, though (but I think they were talking about freeing up the
format for *non*-word processors, like PageMaker, spelling checking
utilities and other things that would either be utilities to Word, or not
compete directly with Word).  Anyone had experience with getting Word 3.0
format -- or using it in your program?

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