jeff@felix.UUCP (02/19/87)
Would someone post the 800 number used to contact
Microsoft concerning Word 3.0 questions.
Thankyou.
--
Jeff Wallace
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FileNet Corp. Costa Mesa, CAsuhler@im4u.UUCP (02/20/87)
In article <2305@felix.UUCP> jeff@felix.UUCP (Jeff Wallace) writes: > Would someone post the 800 number used to contact >Microsoft concerning Word 3.0 questions. That's the number on the Word 1.05 box that you're supposed to call for the $50 upgrade to 3.0. That's where I was told that 3.0 won't be shipped until March 1st, despite what dealers think has happened. -- Paul Suhler suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU 512-474-9517
clive@druhi.UUCP (02/22/87)
in article <2305@felix.UUCP>, jeff@felix.UUCP (Jeff Wallace) says: > > > Would someone post the 800 number used to contact > Microsoft concerning Word 3.0 questions. > > Thankyou. On my box, it says: 1-800-323-3577 You're welcome!
jmb@sgi.UUCP (02/25/87)
My copy arrived yesterday (2/24) in the mail. Came with two manuals. The
first is a nice reference manual in a three ring binder, while the
second claims to be a tutorial (it's 3/4 inch thick!). From the manuals,
it would appear that Word3.0 can do everything except put the baby to bed,
and could probably be coerced into that, too.
I haven't tried to build a document yet, I'm still trying to assimilate
the differences with my original copy of Word.
-- Jim Barton
From the UNIX asylum at SiliconGraphics, Inc.
jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmbkautz@allegra.UUCP (03/15/87)
Replace this line with your message To reiterate the comments of some previous posters: Word 3.0 is NOT a finished product. Certainly no body should pay full price for the state it is in now. Word 1.05 crashed my mac about twice in as many years of heavy use. 3.0 crashes several times a day. The latest bug: if it gets low on memory, it puts up a warning box, telling you to save and quit. But if this happens when you are opening a file, it doesn't abort the open -- as soon as you click ok, the file starts to be read again, and the alert box comes up again! The only way out is to reboot! (Certainly NEVER use word under switcher on 512e-- you'll be sorry!) Word is definitely a camel (as in a horse designed by...). Glossaries (two kinds!) work differently from styles work differently from formulas work differently from indexes, etc. The basic idea of toggling between a view where some formatting commands are explicit (like Tex) and where they are WYSIWYG is good. But they didn't adopt a uniform macro language, and don't let the user define his/her own macros. Style sheets are another good idea that comes up short. You can define styles for entire paragraphs but NOT for arbitrary text. Therefore you cannot, e.g., create a style called EMPHASIZE, apply it to certain words, and later decide if you want italics or underline. For all my griping, I'm still using it (but carefully!). One nice out: I can always save my files in 1.05 format (Microsoft should get a prize for providing downward compatibility) and go back to using the workhorse. -- ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: allegra!kautz :mail: AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 3C-433 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 :office phone: (201) 582-2815 :home address: 155 Woodland Ave. Summit, N.J. 07901 :home phone: (201) 277-2737
radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) (03/16/87)
In article <6547@allegra.UUCP>, kautz@allegra.UUCP (Henry Kautz) writes: > For all my griping, I'm still using it (but carefully!). One nice > out: I can always save my files in 1.05 format (Microsoft should get a > prize for providing downward compatibility) and go back to using the > workhorse. Don't be so sure. I haven't tried this, but I have tried the reverse. Reading a file in Word 1.5 format into Word 3.0 seems to through away the font size info. Radford Neal
kautz@allegra.UUCP (03/31/87)
Replace this line with your message I sent in the "bug report" sheet that comes with the Word 3.0 documentation, and was pleasantly suprised when a few days later somebody from Microsoft technical support called, and was very concerned to hear about any problems. He told me that Word was shipped with a new version of Chooser installed in the system (sure enough, it is!), and use of older versions could lead to wierd problems. And it sounds like the folks at Microsoft are hard at work, fixing gliches... They would really like to hear from anybody who can track down reproducible situations which causes errors. -- ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: allegra!kautz :csnet: kautz%allegra@btl.csnet :arpa: kautz%allegra%btl.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa :mail: AT&T Bell Laboratories |:home address: Room 3C-433 | 155 Woodland Ave. 600 Mountain Ave. | Summit, N.J. 07901 Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 | :office phone: (201) 582-2815
rcbaem@eutrc3.UUCP (Ernst Mulder) (06/09/89)
Just finished a large essay using Word 3.01 and MacDraw. Just thought I
had to post this little article. :)
People (including myself) can say what they like about Word, but when
it really comes to it (Hmm, is this a literal Dutch -> English translation?)
Word is really the nicest Wordprocessor I know.
Word may have bugs, but working around them knowing them Word does all
the things I want. I have made some 'stationeries', and writing an essay
using those is really nice, having all the styles I want and the body of
an essay in _my_ style on line.
Word is nice for another reason too. When I didn't have much memory a
long time ago, it worked fine in about 400K. Now I give Word 600K (Switcher)
and give Draw about 300K, and still have memory available. (I have 2M)
I believe to have heard FullWrite needs 1M at least, MW II itself is
immensely huge, well, think I'll keep using Word 3.01 for a long
time, 'cause I like it!! :) [Never thought I'd say those words :)]
Ernst.
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Disclaimer: Maybe I'll wait for Word 4.01 to arrive ;)