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- From: rwilliam@darwin.helios.nd.edu (richard williams)
- Subject: Re: Upgrade to WpWin 5.2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.060930.7851@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
- References: <WPWIN-L%93010619193620@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:09:30 GMT
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- In article <WPWIN-L%93010619193620@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> Steven Yoon <BP255002@BROWNVM.BITNET> writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Is it worth the price to
- >upgrade from 5.1? If so, what additional things does the upgrade provide?
- >The only thing I can see of value is the print capability.
-
-
- Here is a suggestion: If you have ever encountered a bug in WpWin 5.1,
- call up WP and report it. I did that, and was pleasantly surprised when I
- got a free upgrade to WpWin 5.2. (In fact, I have gotten 3 of them, each to
- a slightly different spelling of my address!) I've always said WP has a
- classy organization, and this is further proof of it.
-
- But, even if you have to pay, I think the upgrade is worth it. New features
- include
- -- Grammatik grammar checker
- -- Easy switching between button bars
- -- Print portrait and landscape modes in the same document
- -- Ole support
-
- This is just the stuff I have found time to use in the past week. It also
- has Adobe Type manager, several new or improved macros and button bars,
- a feature for indexing files, improved file conversions, some sort of
- network email feature... all in all, pretty good stuff. My guess is that
- WinWord will still score higher in the evaluations, but 5.2 narrows the
- gap, and I'm hoping that by 6.0 Wp has its lead again. WP has earned
- a lot of loyalty from me because of its tech support and customer policies,
- and I'm glad to see that my patience with its troubled Windows product is
- starting to pay off.
-
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