[alt.hypertext] Hypertext on MS WORD????

lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) (06/27/90)

Looking through the reference manual for WordForWindows I see
that there are some nice hypertext-ish features (bookmarks and gotobuttons).
In practically no time I have converted part of the text of a scientific
dictionary into a "hypertext network" (and automatically, thanks to the
power of generic markup and Word's macro language).

Now I didn't expect this at all (coming from a sheltered Mac environment
Windows 3 applications are generally blowing my mind!) but perhaps someone
`out there' can tell me how Word For Windows is likely to fare if I try this
sort of thing in earnest. What are the performance considerations for storing
LARGE numbers of bookmarks? How quickly can Word `goto' an arbitrary bookmark?
(I have been using Guide-3 but it has a 64K limit on the size of text objects,
which is a little inhibiting.)

Thanks in advance for any revelations.
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L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
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