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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: What's in Word 4.0?
Message-ID: <8400103@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 03:45:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    May  4 22:45:00 1989


Question: What is the big deal with Word 4.0?  I haven't heard anyone
praising any new features in this word processor.  I get the
impression that without Superpaint, NOTHING IS NEW.  Right now, here
are the only features I'm really looking for:

0.  A magnification mode for entering 11-point times font.
1.  Better equation handling / rendering
2.  The ability to set default sub/super scripts
3.  Bug fixes
4.  Faster file saves
5.  Fast text searching
6.  Styles that can be applied to individual characters
7.  Some advanced graphics / postscript support.  In other words,
    if sophisticated figures are pasted into MS-Word like some MacDraw-II
    figures, information is lost and the rendering is ugly.


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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