Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!john From: john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 --- First (and Last) Impressions Message-ID: <453@trigraph.UUCP> Date: 4 May 89 15:29:39 GMT References: <3914@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM> <29495@apple.Apple.COM> <3939@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM> <29844@apple.Apple.COM> <8842@polya.Stanford.EDU> <3950@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM> Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.utcs.UToronto.CA (John Chew) Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 41 In an unattributed article someone wrote: # One of the things I have wanted in Word is to be able to define a # style that affected only the selected text rather than just the # paragraph. For example, it would be useful to have a "Figure # Reference" style that could be used within a normal text paragraph, # and be able to change all figure reference formatting by just changing # the style. To which Brian Diehm replied in article <3950@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM>: >Word 4.0 appears to have no such facility either. The ONLY publishing system >that I know of that has this is Interleaf TPS 4.0. This is the one version >beyond the Interleaf that runs on the Mac. Small comfort, I know. As much as I hate to promote the use of IBM PCs, I feel obligated to point out that MS Word for the PC has had this feature since version 4 (the last version I had to use -- I've no idea what the current version is). Its style sheets supported Character, Paragraph and Section styles, and many are the times when I have gnashed my teeth sitting at my mac, manually re-applying Section formatting changes to large numbers of similarly formatted documents, or threatened grave bodily harm against someone who happened to change their mind about how some bullet was incorrectly styled. Yes I know there are work-arounds (mostly having to do with saving in RTF format and mucking around in it before returning to normalcy), but for some reason I had hoped that a new version of MS Word for the Mac would include all the nifty features that MS Word for the PC had. Guess I'll just wait for MS Word (Mac) 5.0... [ Just in case you think I'm anti-MS Word, let me point out that my text tools of preference are, in order of document complexity, vi, Word, and hand-tooled PostScript ] John -- john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329 trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}