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Subject:RE: Any suggestions for replacing Word From:Stuart Burnfield <sburnf -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:31:55 +0800
Tom wrote:
> Word 2.0 on the Mac was pretty good!
> It's declined since then (circa 1989)
I'm with you, Tom. If I'd had Word 2.0 (Windows) plus the new features of
Word 6.0 but none of the new bugs, I'd have been a much happier TW around
1994.
Mark L. Levinson wrote:
> Word 2.0 on the Mac couldn't handle a page number
> greater than 4096. That would have ruled it out for
> any serious work, my memoirs for example...
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