moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (08/01/87)
This has been taken from the "Read Me" document that has been delivered
with the MS Word 3.01 disks:
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NOTE TO WORD 3.0 USERS: YOU'LL NOTICE THESE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN
WORD 3.01
* You should now personalize your master disk; for details,
see "Getting Started" in the Learning Microsoft Word manual. If
you will be installing Word on a file server, be sure to
personalize Word before you copy it to the server. [Jeff's Note:
Your name and company pop up every time the program starts up].
* The first time you use Word 3.01, the menus will revert to
their original state. You will need to add or delete fonts,
sizes, formats, or Work menu items again. However, Word does
retain the changes you made by clicking any "Set Default" button.
* To ensure that all your Word 3.0 documents print correctly,
you should perform the following procedure for each document: open
the document in Word 3.01, hold down the Shift key while selecting
Repaginate from the Document menu, and immediately save the
document. [Jeff's Note: Swell.]
* When you are printing multiple copies on the LaserWriter,
Word now prints faster by creating only one print job.
* When you print using Page Setup's "Next File" option, the
documents are opened and closed as needed instead of all being
opened at the beginning.
* In the Print command (for LaserWriter), Reduce/Enlarge
scales only the text and not the margins. To fit more text on the
page, you must increase the paper size in Page Setup and set the
reduction percentage in Print.
* When you choose Page Preview, you cannot change page breaks
or margins unless Reduce/Enlarge is set to 100%. However, Page
Preview does show the effects of the reduction or enlargement.
* In the Print dialog box for LaserWriter, the "Fractional
Widths" checkbox replaces the Quality options. This checkbox lets
you use the LaserWriter's fractional character widths feature,
which produces better output for some documents. Specifically,
spacing between characters and words may look better when printed
with "Fractional Widths" checked.
* When you print a document using the "Fractional Widths"
option, you will notice that for small fonts, text displayed on
the screen overflows the right margin. This is normal and does
not affect printing.
* When you choose Quit, Word will prompt you to save changes
for each document.
* Word lets you use all fonts in the System, except those with
names starting with a period (.) or percent sign (%). Fonts are
arranged alphabetically on the Font menu and in the Character
dialog box. There is no limit to the number of fonts you can use.
However, the Font menu has room for only 31 fonts and sizes.
* The "Word Underline" character format will not underline
tabs or nonbreaking spaces.
* Press -Shift-Z to remove character formats from text; the
font and size, position, and spacing are not affected. (This was
the function of the Plain Text command in Word 1.0.) You use the
Plain Text command to restore selected characters to the character
format defined for the style of that paragraph.
* In Spelling, if you click "No Change" when Word presents a
word, Word will ignore that word for the rest of the session.
However, Word will continue to display these words as it scans the
document.
* When you choose Find, Spelling, or Hyphenate, Word scans the
entire document only once.
* When typing measurements in text boxes, you can now type a
quote mark (") to indicate inches.
* When you format text in multiple columns (using the Section
command), you can force a column break by inserting a page break
character with Shift-Enter. The "Page Break Before" paragraph
option will always insert a page break before the selected
paragraph.
* NumLock now appears in the lower left corner instead of
showing as "N" in the upper right corner of the menu bar.
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"Nice shooting, son. What's
your name?"
"MURPHY."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm) (08/03/87)
>* You should now personalize your master disk; for details, >see "Getting Started" in the Learning Microsoft Word manual. If >you will be installing Word on a file server, be sure to >personalize Word before you copy it to the server. [Jeff's Note: >Your name and company pop up every time the program starts up]. You can preserve the virgin state by clicking OK without entering anything. Or, if you enter a single Option-Space for each, the program won't display anything on startup but won't ask you for ID each time either. Personally, I think they should've dropped this silliness like they did in 3.00. >* When you are printing multiple copies on the LaserWriter, >Word now prints faster by creating only one print job. Well, uh huh, sort of. If you print multiple copies, it's fixed. If you select several files in the finder and use it's PRINT command, you get one print job for each original file, with other appletalk users able to get jobs in the queue between yours.] >* In the Print command (for LaserWriter), Reduce/Enlarge >scales only the text and not the margins. To fit more text on the >page, you must increase the paper size in Page Setup and set the >reduction percentage in Print. Yeah, but they still don't use the standard setup dialog box, so the new laserwriter options aren't there. >* In the Print dialog box for LaserWriter, the "Fractional >Widths" checkbox replaces the Quality options. This checkbox lets >you use the LaserWriter's fractional character widths feature, >which produces better output for some documents. Specifically, >spacing between characters and words may look better when printed >with "Fractional Widths" checked. Yet another feature that has been partially and confusingly implemented. If you ever wonder why "Font Substitution" either a) allows you to check it but doesn't do the substitution (thereby filling up your LW memory with copies of Chicago and Geneva, etc.) or b) simply disables checking, you have just discovered that "Font Substitution" and "Fractional Widths" are mutually exclusive. Also, simply printing a file marks it as modified, a bug holdover (in my opinion) from 3.00. However, they let you in on what they really are doing by asking if you want to save the repagination of that file. You still have to click "no" to saving changes of a file where all you did was print. -- -Brian Diehm (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply) Tektronix, Inc. briand@tekig4.TEK.COM or {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand