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- From: larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo)
- Subject: Re: (Summary) Word/W4W/WP: Which is best?
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:01:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan08.074928.20161@eng.umd.edu> lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson) writes:
- >>booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes:
- >>
- >>Word for Windows? The people in my department are not technical
- >>people, so I am concerned that learning a new interface maybe
- >>too much. Has anyone made this switch?
- >
- >Before you jump on the Word bandwagon, I thought I'd throw in my
- >two cents. Yes, WP has had (is having) a few growing pains
- >migrating to the Windows environment, but in my opinion WP is
- >definitely the most powerful and **flexible** of the three
- >mentioned wordprocessors. Thus far, I've found that WP5.2 for Win
- >seems to be working pretty well (just my opinion though).
- >
- >An example of WP's flexibility/power: I do a lot of technical
- >writing, so I need to do lots of equations and use lots of special
- >characters. To my knowledge, AmiPro doesn't even have an equation
- >editor, and in Word you are more or less forced to pick all equation
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- I use AmiPro and it does have an equation editor. It had one before Word for
- Windows did.
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