word settings

[Janina Sajka]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Kirk Wood wrote:

> It doesn't show every character, but does reveal most.

So, it doesn't do the same thing WordPerfect does. Or emacs. Or html ...
So, are you now retracting your categorical claim of equivalence between 
Word and WordPerfect in this regard?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Kirk Wood wrote:

> If you need to see formating characters in Word, click on Tools, options
> and go to the View tab. There you have have a host of non-printing
> characters shown to you. It doesn't show every character, but does reveal
> most. There is a good chance that the charcaters won't read with a screen
> reader though.
> 
> I don't believe that Word deserves its place in society. I personally
> think that it will eventually falter as it gets more and more
> bloated. There are some people who notice that a file from word 2000 is
> 25% larger then the same file in word 97. One day people will notice that
> there are virtually no viruses written for non windows platforms. Until
> then, I will continue to upkeep my macroslop skill set.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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