Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL!gaspar From: gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Al Gaspar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Word-processing recommendations Message-ID: <9001021458.AA21703@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Jan 90 14:57:21 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 26 Jack, I own Excelence! (I got it a year ago; I don't know of any updates). I wish I didn't. For some things it is adequate; however, for a number of others it is not. It is a little slow (though I could live with that). What I had real trouble with was printing. I had a short paper that required some ordinary footnotes. I could never get the footnotes to come out properly at the bottom of the page. Part of it was solved by switching to a different size font, but I never resolved its mangling the horizontal line that should appear at the bottom of the page above footnotes. I was trying to print on a relatively simple Epson compatible. I understand that if I had postscript facilities, I wouldn't have had these problems. I have heard good things about WordPerfect and ProWrite. Good luck. Cheers-- Al -- Al Gaspar (used to be ) USAMC SIMA, ATTN: AMXSI-TTC, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 263-5646 AUTOVON: 693-5646 uunet.uu.net!stl-08sima.army.mil!gaspar