MM> A good thesaurus should do a partial search, and single out
MM> "emplacement" as an adequate response for "emplace."  :(  sigh
MM> Hmmmm....   I have never used the SPELLER....  It probably wouldn't
MM> hurt, but friends have used Word Perfect SPELLER programs that have
MM> mangled their text:  removing multiple spaces, for instance.  I
MM> would  hate to have a program "second guessing" how many spaces I
MM> wanted in  the document.  For instance, a colon requires two spaces
MM> following.  With my friends' documents, it is maddening having to
MM> "correct" a  thousand and one "double-space" conversions.   Oh, and
MM> not to mention  the general requirement that a period be followed by
MM> two spaces, not  one.
MM> Tell me, did Word Perfect ever fix that particular bug?  I wouldn't
MM> want to use their SPELLER program if they hadn't.
     First of all, it is no longer considered good
practice to use double spaces following periods, etc.
I see you still do, as do I.  It's such a habit with me
- and I don't care that much.  If I am going to print a
text with full justification, I may search for and
delete the second space.
     Second, (I'm talking WordPerfect dos 6.1 here)
It's probably QuickCorrect that's giving them trouble.
It can be configured as you please, or turned off
completely.  It can even make one space into two at the
end of a sentence.
     Third, The SPELLER has a setup menu that gives you
some choices on what it does.  You can have it prompt
on auto-replace.  You do not have to accept SPELLER or
GRAMMATIK's suggestions.  Set them up so YOU make all
the decisions
     The point is: WordPerfect can be used for many
things in many ways.  Different styles of writing,
different kinds of text, different moods you are in may
dictate what features you want to use.  You can use
Macros to turn on and off features according to your
desire at the moment.  As an example: I sometimes am
working with a large graphic.  The automatic backup
feature is a pain there - it takes too long.  I have it
set to back up every 5 minutes, and with a large
graphic it may spend more time backing up than it does
letting me work.  My solution is a Macro I named Bk_Off
which disables this feature.  And, since I'm apt to
forget I did that, WordPerfect is loaded with the Bk_On
Macro run to re-enable it.
     WordPerfect and it's appendages are excellent
writing tools, IMO.  Yes, it has some faults.  But a
lot of those faults are the user's: it can do so much
that we don't understand everything and maybe don't
realize we can configure it to eliminate the problem.
If you just want pure typing and absolutely no help of
suggestions, i.e., a typewriter, use EDIT!
     Here's an item I think WordPerfect fails in - tho
it's probably because I don't understand why it does
it.  Suppose I enter a large document, with tables and
graphics, color, stuff that is going to make printing
slow at best.  Then I want a dozen copies.  First it
must Image Graphics Text, etc., then it must send the
data to the printer.  Ready for copy #2, it does it all
over again.  Why can't it save the Image from one copy
for the next?  That's what I would do.... I think.
There must be a reason why it doesn't or can't, but I
don't know what it is.  It seems to me like a bug, but
it's probably a feature! *:o)
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