Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ack From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Message-ID: <13368@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 5 May 89 16:35:15 GMT References: <1860@aucs.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Organization: Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 45 [] I got my free upgrade (I bought the full version of 3.02 in mid august) and it came with all the manuals, superpaint 1.1, coupon for $50 to superpain 2.0 and all that. In the 24 hours I have been playing with it (well, less than that, I *did* sleep :-) I have noticed a few quirks. 1) The menus take FOREVER to draw! What are they doing to the poor menu manager??? 2) When I first opened the font menu all of my LaserWriter fonts (Avante Garde, Bookman, and the other 9 that come with the LaserWriter Plus disks) were all in the menu. FOUR TIMES EACH! My menu read like this: Avant Garde Avant Garde Avant Garde Avant Garde Bookman Bookman ... You get the idea. I had to go in with the Commands dialog to nuke all but one copy of each. Why is this happening? Scrolling is a bit slow in page view, but not as slow as Fullwrite (not that this is saying very much). In three column mode, the text updating is fast! I typed a retrun in column one at the top of the page and columns two and three shifted down very quickly. All in all, it's pretty good. I still have my Word Wish list, but it is getting smaller. -ajw Andy J. Williams '90 | | ack@dartvax.dartmouth.edu 31 North Main Street | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | Systems Programmer Hanover NH, 03755 | You kill -9 my ppid | Kiewit Computation Center 603-643-2177 | prepare to vi | Dartmouth College