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Subject:RE: Any suggestions for replacing Word From:Peter Lewicke <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Stuart Burnfield <sburnf -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:03:16 -0800 (PST)
I still use Word 2.0 (Windows) and like it. That
version had enough features to do most things, but
they hadn't packed in all of the garbage that they
dreamed up later. I'm doing my memoirs in several
files, broken up by year, so if there is a limit on
page numbers, I won't run into it.
--- Stuart Burnfield <sburnf -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com> wrote:
> 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...
>
> Multiple volumes, Mark!
> "The Life and Works of Mark Levinson, Vol III: The
> Years of Triumph"
>
> Stuart
>
>
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