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From: tmb@davinci.acc.Virginia.EDU (Thomas M. Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wordprocessing problems?  Eg flicker, software glitches?
Keywords: word processing
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Date: 4 Jan 90 13:51:58 GMT
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In article <416@dsoft.UUCP> dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
> ....  If you want 
> something with a lot of power and no fiddling around, get WordPerfect.  True,
> it's not 5.0, but as I understand it the only really major improvements made
> in 5.0 involved incorporating graphics into your document, and that's not 
> really a job for WordPerfect anyway.

The addition of user created, named, and stored "styles"
which can be used almost identically to the wp native ones is a another
big improvement introduced in 5.0.

These make it much easier to integrate the appearance of sets of documents that
may be developed by different people and at separate times (after it may
have been forgotten how it was decided that chapter headings should
look).

Also, these style are applied at "run-time" rather then being translated
on entry into the document, which makes it possible to apply a global change
to a document set simply by changed the definition of the style itself.

ie, even without graphics, WP v5.0 would be much nicer to have than v4.2.


			Tom Breeden
			tmb@virginia.EDU