Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!portia!thewho From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: More Word gripes Message-ID: <9436@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 Feb 90 18:37:07 GMT References: <90052.210048Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: Derek Fong Reply-To: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 56 In article <90052.210048Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp) writes: >I have seen a lot of people posting their complaints of MS Word 4.0 lately. >I guess I'd like to add a couple of pointed questions myself. > >Recently, I saw a post where the person was asking about anchoring a graphic >to a page location and then having Word flow text around it. I don't think >the poster used these types of terms, but that was how I interpreted the >request (I lost the original post). Unfortunately, I didn't see any replies >posted to the net (or a summary yet). > >To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible with Word 4.0. However, >since this is a real problem for me as I need to insert tables, charts, and >graphs into Word to produce draft chapters of my dissertation. As it >is, I assume that I have to place and then tweak the text around >it myself. However, I would like to tap the collective knowledge of the >net to make sure that I am not missing something in Word. Am I? Is it >possible to do this with Word? Having to keep readjusting chapter drafts >manually is not a thought I relish at all. It would almost be simpler to >cut and paste. > I am almost poitive that you can do this withh Word 4 although I have never actually used this feature. I know for a fact that you can accomplish this need by creating separate columns, but I guess that could get quite nasty.... Ah, I just found it. I've been flipping through my manual as I type along. It's on page 244-245 of the Reference manual. I hope that this manual is the same as yours. (I bought the Academic Version which came with a number of manuals. This one is a spiral bound and is titled "Reference to Microsoft Word") Looking at this description briefly, it appears that you allocated a box for you graphic/table/etc. Actually, Looking at it now, it is from page 240 on. To quote p.240 (I hope this satisfies your needs): "The text of the normal paragraphs flows areound the boundaries of the positioned objects, filling the available space..." So you if set aside a region, the text supposedly flows around the box. How to actually do this and how hard it is, you'll have to find out, it doesn't look too bad though. >If not with Word, then how about another Mac product? Well, I think I've shown that Word can do what you want. From what I've heard, FullWrite does it too. But, Fullwrite, I think would solve you chapter problems. From what I have heard, FullWrite works in chapters. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not too familiar with FullWrite except that it has some features like that and you need a megamachine to run it (020/030 with at least 4 MB of RAM) or the program is awefully slow. Then again, Word might be able to solve you chapter problem too, but I don't know enought about word to figure if that is possible. Maybe if I have time later, I'll sit down with the manual and try to find that out for you. Anyways, hope this has been helpful. Good luck. I have a lot of gripes about Word too, but most have already been put in that "bug list" which came out shortly after Word's release. All in all, I've been pretty pleased with the program though. Not bad, but could be better... ---Derek Fong fong@cive.stanford.edu thewho@portia.stanford.edu