gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (08/19/89)
I seem to be having some problems with Word 4.0
(1) In color, the selection cursor is often *way off*. I select
between two characters, and the blinking cursor ends up almost an inch
to the right. I start typing, and the characters insert where I
selected, not where the cursor is blinking. This happens all the
time.
At one time, the last half of a line was shifted 1 inch right, past the
margin. Luckily, things still kept working, so I assume word was just
having trouble keeping the screen accurate.
(2) A scarier problem just happened a moment ago. I pasted something
into my document, and noticed I had two copies of the same paragraph.
Naturally, I deleted the extra copy, but this destroyed *both* copies
(perhaps the second copy was a phantom image on the screen). Now
*THIS* caused me to loose two minutes' work, which is worrisome.
I have been working on the same file in both Word 3.01 AND Word 4.0.
I recently learned to use styles extensively (My 10 previous papers in
Word 3.01 didn't use styles).
Is there a bug-fixed version of Word 4.0 yet?
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
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