Steve Hayes is replying to Auke Reitsma, who wrote to Deon Strydom on 04 Sep 
96  15:52:01:
 AR>> To convince my boss that I should continue to use WP I _NEED_
 AR>> a good, honest and detailed list of what WP is capable of
 AR>> doing and Word is not.
 
 SH>> Well I can give the reverse...
 
 SH>> WP is not capable of doing on-the-fly redlining.
 
 DS> Hi Steve,
 DS> Is Word capable?
 
 DS> BTW, what do you mean by "0n-the-fly redlining"?  In WP 6.0 for
 AR> Hm. I guess Steve meant: "on the fly spell checking". And yes Word 7
 AR> is capable of that -- and so is WP7 (as rumored loudly). 
No, I meant on-the-fly redlining
Sorry, Deon... didn't get your message, so I couldn't see what you said or 
asked - Fidonet mail seems  to have dropped out for the last 3-4 days. I 
don't know if it was just on my BBS, or for the whole of Gauteng. 
Word and AmiPro both do on-the-fly redlining, though both have an identical 
defect - if you delete "deleted" text it doesn't undelete.
If I hold down the Del key, it will mark the text the cursor passes over as 
"deleted", but if I press the Backspace (rubout) key, the cursor will go back 
over the text marked deleted, but it will not "undelete" it.
So XyWrite/NotaBene is still the only program that does proper redlining! 
After 10 years, none of the other word processing packages have managed to 
get it right :-(
Keep well,
Steve Hayes
E-mail: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za
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