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Subject:Re: A Good Word for Word 6 From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 28 Apr 1995 10:25:10 -0600
On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Sue Heim wrote:
> John Rennish wrote
> > You must have *very* simple formatting. We routinely have major problems
> > with documents less than half that long. Besides frequent crashes. . .
> If you have memory problems, maybe
> you should have someone look at your system. If you have printing
> problems, maybe you should evaluate other printers. But blaming all
> your woes on a word processing package is not the answer. BTW, for
I agree. I use Word 6 regularly, and like Sue, I am familiar with Frame,
Pagemaker, and WordPerfect 6, among others. Word is my tool of
preference for word processing. It is not adequate for all DTP
needs--nor should one expect it to be. But it does what it is designed
to do very well.
When I wound up with major crashing problems, I did a check on my system
and discovered that someone had reconfigured my videocard setup.
Resetting it fixed the problem quickly. Memory problems do occur--but
this is usually because I forget at times to save regularly.
