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- From: qwa@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ned Bedinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: MS Word upgrade worth it?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:39:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1i6n4rINN373@shelley.u.washington.edu> qwa@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ned Bedinger) writes:
- >>The benefits of the upgrade are debatable. I personally
- >>find this drag-and-drop business to be a royal pain in the
- >>rear. I simply hate spending time trying to click-and-drag
- >>to highlight text (as we have always done in Word) and getting
- >>one character dragged around the screen instead of a highlight.
- >>It is really an inconsequential feature for anyone who has
- >>become accustomed and adept at word processing without it.
-
- <>If you don't like it, turn the feature off!
- <>
- <>Sheesh, what a prat...
-
-
- So I may as well, since Microsoft has never seen
- seen the utility of making mouse buttons config-
- urable. I'd be happy if I could set drag-n-drop
- to left+right buttons, and leave select functions
- to the left button. Alas, the only mouse programming
- capability provided under box-stock Windows is switch-
- ing L <--> R button functionality.
-
- Does the macro language add-on offer enhanced mouse
- functions?
-
-
-
- >>On the other hand, things that used to require glossaries and
- >>macros are now available on the tooolbar. You can simply
- >>click a button to place a bullet, format as two columns, zoom
- >>in (aw fer cryin' out loud, is this really necessary?), and
- >>a rash of other common and not-so-common tasks.
-
- <>If you don't like the options offered on the toolbar, add you own
- <>options there and stop whinging.
- <>
- <>Sheesh, what a prat...
-
- It would behoove you to keep the topic in sight. MY point
- was that the upgrade does not necessarily help with pro-
- ductivity. I'm sure there are plenty of people who will
- pay $129 dollars for anything in shrinkwrap and then spend
- dozens of hours fwobbling through the manual and help screens,
- just to figure out how to do things they used to know how to
- do. It is going to take a lot of new toolbar functions to
- make up for even one hour lost to studying the new interface.
-
-
-
- <>In my arrogant opinion, Word for Windows 2.0 is a lot better than Word
- ^^^^^^^^
- knee jerk is a closer fit....
-
- <>for Windows 1.1 I upgraded as soon as it came out and found it fixed
- <>many annoying little things. The only thing I missed was being able to
- <>enter AUTO for a table width measurement - but that's not much of a
- <>problem.
- <>
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