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From: Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: More Word gripes (SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <90053.210038Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 02:00:38 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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I would like to thank all of those who respondend to my requests about
positioning graphics and tying them to a particular page location.  Somehow,
I had overlooked the appropriate sections in the manual.  I especially want
to thank those who responded to me in a polite manner.  More of that later.

To position graphics in a document, everyone pointed out that you need to
use the position command.

To have page numbers in the next file start with the next logical page number,
you tell word to begin page numbering with 0.

I also thank the responders who pointed out that FullWrite can do the
positioning.  I think I will stay with Word, however.  I have an SE, and even
with 2.5 meg of ram, I have heard that FullWrite is kind of slow.  Even if it
wasn't, I have been generally very satisfied with using Word 4.0.

This is the end of the summary, and I would now like to raise a new issue.
While I admit I was remiss in not finding these answers in the manual
myself, I would like to ask if my question violated in some sense the spirit
of this newsgroup?  I received several fairly nasty replies insinuating that
either 1) I was not a registered owner of Word; 2) I should carefully
read and memorize manuals more carefully (and when I can't find a topic in an
index because all software manufacturers use slightly different terminology
that I should repeat step 2 until I get it right); or 3) I was somehow
flaming Microsoft Word by questioning whether it had certain features or
not.

In response to 1), yes indeed I am a legal owner of Word 4.0.  In response to
2), I plead guilty.  I would rather use a good index that read software
documentation from front to back.  And as for 3), geez, some of you people are
so touchy.  I spent two years in the College of Liberal Arts as a consultant
prosletizing the Mac GUI interface and the superiority of Mac software.  Does
this mean that one is never supposed to question Mac software?  For example,
I find the macro capability of Word for the PC both more elegant and practical
than the approach taken in Word for the Mac where  you have to kludge around
in RTF and use an external macro program that doesn't allow for doing some of
the tasks I need.  At least, I assume that it won't since Microsoft staff
never informed me to the contrary when I sent a letter to them.

To those touchy individuals out there that think I somehow flamed Microsoft,
as if my opinion amounts to much, I want to assure you that I have found
Word a very good product for most of my uses.  I was simply asking for
help from the net about several problems that I had not found solutions to
on my own, and which I assumed I could then tap into the collective wisdom
of the net.  By doing so, I got both of my problems solved.  Thanks again to
those who helped me out on that.

If I did something wrong, let me know.

I'll continue to read this newsgroup because it usually contains useful
information, despite the occasional few who always seem ready to flame someone
or something.  So, flame away.

Scott  q8n@psuvm.edu