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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Message-ID: <9605@claris.com>
Date: 7 Apr 89 14:09:59 GMT
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Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <9828@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> sagen@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Milt Sagen) writes:
>...
>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.
>

There was a bug discovered that Paragon claims to have fixed for the next rev
concerning imported Word files.  The workaround is to read it in and then
save it immediately as a Nisus file and close it.  Reopen the Nisus file and
proceed from there.  That has worked for me in all the previously dying
situations.


-- 
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!