cavalier@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (Scott Mandell) (04/09/91)
I agree. I bought Nisus recently after using MS Word for years, and I love it. The graphics capabilties are wonderful, as are the unlimited undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 (just receive upgrade to 3.05 in the mail) for $99 as a student (full version, full manual) and I'm very happy with it. MS Word ain't bad, but as a person who works with graphics and page layouta lot, Nisus wins. -Scott -[ Scott E. Mandell ]------------------------------------------------ -[ (607) 256 - 4217 ] Voice, 9AM-11PM EST 7 Days a Week -[ (607) 256 - 0200 ] BBS, 24 Hrs, 14.4k V.32/32bis/42/42bis/FAX -[ Ithaca, New York ]------------------------------------------------
rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) (04/10/91)
cavalier@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (Scott Mandell) writes: >undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its >SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 If I understand you correctly, MS Word has the same feature. By holding down the option key while dragging over a rectangle, you can select such things as the third column of numbers (which you can then sort on, or whatever). -- Rolf Wilson Illinois State Geological Survey rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu
long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) (04/10/91)
In article <PXJ6Z2w162w@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us>, cavalier@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (Scott Mandell) writes... >undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its >SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 Word will do rectangle select with option-drag. Nothing new under the sun there. :-) Richard C. Long | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com | Selfware: If you like --------------- | ...!decwrl!mcntsh.enet.dec.com!long | this program, send A First Edition | long%mcntsh.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com | yourself five bucks!
hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr10.132920.18999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes: >>undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its >>SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 > If I understand you correctly, MS Word has the same feature. By > holding down the option key while dragging over a rectangle, you can > select such things as the third column of numbers (which you can then > sort on, or whatever). No RTFM flames, please; I sold my copy of Word so I can't look this up. I'm curious, is this vertical selection a documented feature in Word? I don't recall seeing it when I read the Word manuals a couple of years ago. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Brad Hedstrom Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Internet: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (a.k.a. Brazil North) UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-visions,ubc-cs}!sirius.UVic.CA!hedstrom "A no smoking section in a restaurant is as effective as a no chlorine section in a swimming pool."
ae219fl@prism.gatech.EDU (TSUNG,FU-LIN) (04/11/91)
In article <HEDSTROM.91Apr10133749@jacob.UVic.CA> hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) writes: > >No RTFM flames, please; I sold my copy of Word so I can't look this >up. I'm curious, is this vertical selection a documented feature in >Word? I don't recall seeing it when I read the Word manuals a couple >of years ago. >-- Yes. there might be other ways, but if you click the lower RH corner, than shift-click the upper LF corner, it will select that block of column. One thing Word 4.0 can NOT do is non contiguous selection, which I find very very useful. -- Fu-Lin Tsung Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!ae219fl Internet: ae219fl@prism.gatech.edu
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (04/12/91)
In article <HEDSTROM.91Apr10133749@jacob.UVic.CA> hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) writes: >In article <1991Apr10.132920.18999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes: >>>undos and such. The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its >>>SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. I got Nisus 3.04 > >> If I understand you correctly, MS Word has the same feature. By >> holding down the option key while dragging over a rectangle, you can >> select such things as the third column of numbers (which you can then >> sort on, or whatever). > >No RTFM flames, please; I sold my copy of Word so I can't look this >up. I'm curious, is this vertical selection a documented feature in >Word? I don't recall seeing it when I read the Word manuals a couple >of years ago. It's in version 4.0 docs. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
mo@well.sf.ca.us (Maurice Weitman) (04/12/91)
cavalier@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (Scott Mandell) writes: ;I agree. I bought Nisus recently after using MS Word for years, and I ;love it. [...] The best thing is the option-drag rectangle select...its ;SUCH a great thing that I've never seen in a WP before. That's funny. Option-drag rectangle select has been a Word feature for years, since at least 3.0, maybe earlier. -- Maurice Weitman mo@well.sf.ca.us ..!{hplabs,pacbell,apple,ucbvax}!well!mo | <- this is not a pipe 1634 Walnut Berkeley, CA 94709 (415)549-0280 Quote: "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Wilson Reagan, New Orleans, 1988 Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors.
dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) (04/15/91)
I posted the original Word vs. Nisus article, and noted that Nisus has option-drag to select a rectangle of text. In context, a reasonable implication was that Word does not. So I guess I started this thread. It turns out that both word processors DO have this feature. I just happened to stumble across it in Nisus, and I had not previously come across it in Word. It appears to work the same in both. A little experimentation suggests that this feature is not powerful enough to build tables; at least, not without additional formatting (inserting tabs, etc.). Probably some good macros could help. In any event, I've sold Word and ordered Nisus (it hasn't arrived yet :-( ), so I won't be in a position to make any further comparisions. However, if working with Nisus changes or augments any of my opinions, I'll certainly post. -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com) I don't speak for my employer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who | | were poorer, had only a black-and-white set. They bought a piece of | | cellophane, red on top, yellow in the middle, and blue on the bottom, | | and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a | | color TV, too. | | Now there's Windows 3.0. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------