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From: s160041@castor.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0
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Date: 25 Apr 89 16:55:52 GMT
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In article <29473@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>Does anyone OTHER than a beta-tester, reviewer, etc., actually have ver. 4.0
>>in hand yet?  I am especially curious about users at universities--do your
>>microcomputer stores have it yet?  
>
>Nope. Duplication/packaging is likely to take a little longer than that, and
>Microsoft has committed that initial packages will go to people who are
>upgrading, so retail distribution won't start until the initial units for
>the upgrade are done. I think a few reviewers have gotten early copies, but
>they weren't shrink-wrapped and I believe the disks were hand-generated.
>
>I wouldn't expect Word 4 to be commercially available for a few weeks. There
>is a large pent up demand for upgrades, and until they have those shipping I
>doubt they'll start shipping to retailers. Which only makes sense.


Actually, I do have a release copy.  Our University Computer Shop recieved
a few of the upgrade packages (Academic Edtition).  The Academic upgrade
does include SuperPaint 1.1MS and AutoMac III (bleccch...).  I had played
with a beta version for a couple of weeks and have used the release version
to write a couple of papers.  So far, I like the automatic tabling very much,
but I'm not very impressed with anything else.  When in PageView mode (where
you can see page breaks, headers, footers a la WriteNow) the program becomes
incredibly slow, particularly if you have tables.  The interface is clumsy,
but the customization helps quite a bit.  The only thing about customization
that I don't like is that if I go to a public access lab or a friends machine
I have to take my Word Settings file with me and tell the program to use my
settings.  Otherwise I would be looking at somebody elses menu arrangements and
command keys.

Overall, I'm not throwing away WriteNow 2.0 yet.  I will still use either
WriteNow or MacWrite II for 90% of my writing, and use Word 4.0 only when
I need tables.

Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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