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Dianne's comment displays the difficulty in "improving" a product.
My work style and preferences make the task bar switching anathema to me,
and this isn't something you can turn on and off in Word 2k. The way the
feature works is that each document is a seperate icon in the task bar.
Since I'll have multiple applications and documents open at once, it's a
HUGE negative.
Oh well, just one of those reminders that improvements to one person, can be
negatives to others...
-----Original Message-----
From: Dianne Blake [mailto:write-it -at- home -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:18 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Word 2k question
scott -at- soffront -dot- com wrote:
> I don't think there are any improvements. To me, the functionality is
> the same in W2K than previous editions (e.g., Word 97).
You are right as far as long documents go, but Word has added these
improvements:
* It has improved web editing support
* Better support for international users
* Collect and Paste (allows more clipboards to paste items to)
* Table formatting (including diagonal lines)
* Click and Type (similar to WP, but harder to turn off and on)
* You can now switch between documents using the task bar instead
of having to go to the Windows menu (WP has had this for a while)
* Themes feature for changing the entire look for a web or other
document
IMHO, just the task bar switching for documents is worth the upgrade.
