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- From: irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:44:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Aug19.114425.28150
- References: <1992Aug18.153911.4652@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug18.173215.16591@deepthought.uucp>
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- In <1992Aug18.173215.16591@deepthought.uucp> deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes:
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- >I certainly hope WP or some other word processing application for the NeXT will
- >support STYLES and DESCRIPTIONS like those found in Ami Pro for Windows.
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- >For those of you that have not used Ami, when saving a file a use may enter a
- >short description. When opening files, the user may also select to quickly
- >view these descriptions as filenames are selected, displaying the files
- >description. Very usefull when you have memo1, memo2; boss1, boss2, ...,
- >bossn, etc.
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- >Does anyone know if this may or may not be supported. What about Appsoft's
- >Writenow?
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- Certainly WP supports this with Document Summary, which may be manually
- modified at any time or (optionally) requested at document save. Opening a
- file, however, does not give an option to look at this.
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- Also WP has Styles available, and they work pretty handily.
-