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Subject:Re: TOOLS: Problems with Word/WordPerfect? From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:13:16 -0600
In our previous episode, SARAH SCHLOSSER said:
>
> Geoff,
> Will you be duplexing or binding your documents? Will you be using page
> numbers in the corners?
> MSWord does not allow for this, so if you use a wider binding margin or
> numbers in the corner, they will both be on the wrong side of the page
> for every other page. I believe WordPerfect supports duplexing.
Uh, neither of these statements is true. Word for Windows 97 supports
a binding margin for portrait documents (I used ClickBook when I
needed one for a landscape document), and supports right, left,
center, inside, or outside page numbers. Word also supports different
first page and odd and even page headers and footers.
I haven't used WordPerfect since version 5.1 (which I loved), so I
can't compare the virtues and faults of the products.
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