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- From: tau@ee.ubc.ca (AU TRI BANG)
- Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.060722.25549@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Aug14.163929.21455@dsd.es.com> <1992Aug17.080928.1@bigez> <cchapman.115.714074768@matd.gatech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:07:22 GMT
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- In article <cchapman.115.714074768@matd.gatech.edu> cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.080928.1@bigez> dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix) writes:
- >
- >Stuff deleted...
- >
- >>... My kingdom for reveal codes!!
- >
- >
- >Exactly! *All* word processors have hidden codes, even Word. In Word
- >the codes are totally hidden. Formatting is much easier when you have
- >the option to *see* the codes and control exactly where they are placed.
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- That's what I thought, too. But when I saw someone format a document
- in WORD with such ease, I got to thinking that maybe it's my own incompetence.
- Could it be that we find formatting without seeing the codes hard because
- we learned it that way? I once asked a Word user to use WP, and he said
- that formatting is "weird" in WP (he didn't use reveal codes).
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- I find that new users prefer WordWin to WPWin. Only WPDos users
- like WPWin. Maybe the next version of WP will change all that.
-