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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
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Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
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Date: 7 Apr 89 03:37:32 GMT
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In article <22684@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:
>
>But it *can* read MS Word files which aren't quick-saved (both directly
>and through RTF).  As a test, I converted an 80-page Word doc to see
>how well it worked, and what blew me away was the incredible speed at
>which it opened the file.  Needless to say, the formatting was perfectly
>intact.

I have had problems with it when the original word document had multiple 
columns, although the problem was not in reading the document, it did that 
just (although it took a longer period of time than usual).  The problem, 
however, manifests itself when the Nisus copy is instructed to use multiple
columns (Nisus did not keep the Word columns, which I believe the manual says
it wont keep).  Once the number of columns was selected the program never came
back after it began to reformat the document.

I do like this program; I use it now for my word processing chores instead of
Word, in fact after receiving Nisus I took Word off my hard disk.  However,
I also believe this program is more of a final beta than it is a final release.
Take the page preview as an example:  This part of the program just doesn't 
seem finished, and on a Mac+ with a 9" screen, the preview page is not all
that useful except to set margins, etc.. 




Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331          Tele: (503) 754-4631