On 4 Jan 98, 11:00am, Phil Heberer wrote to David Chessler
on the subject of "Re: WP/WORD":
 DC>> incompatibilities. We had a problem with tables in a large
 DC>> document. It was crashing 7.0 regularly--you could work on only a
 DC>> page at a time, then save, because it would crash again. I had it
 DC>> sent to me to load into 8.0, and had the same problem, at about
 DC>> the same place. So I saved it in 5.1 and then reimported it. That
 DC>> worked. 5.1 supported all the codes we were actually using, and
 DC>> the saving got rid of the bad code.
>     I used to have a macro in WP6.0b for DOS that I would need to use
>     occasionally to clean up a file. It wasn't mine, but one that one of
>     the gurus here posted quite some time back. I'll see if I still have 
>     it and run it through here again for general info. Perhaps something 
>     in that might be some code you could use to deal with the WP 7/8 
>     problems as well.
I suspect corruption of some sort. Maybe a bad code. Saving to
5.1 fixed the problem. The alternative would be Seidman's
utilities, but I don't think he updated them for the windows
versions.
>     Actually, one of the things that I liked in WP6.0b for DOS was the
>     ability to use TrueType fonts. I don't use a great many fonts, but
>     could add or delete fonts as the need arose.
It is convenient to be able to use the windows drivers. They are
almost as good as the WP Corp drivers used to be. I normally use
the Adobe postscript driver for windows, except when I have to
match something designed to be printed with a PCL printer.
 DC>> And if you were using the DOS version, it would be the equivalent
 DC>> of a 23 inch monitor under windows. :-)
>     That's true, but at least now I can do a full page preview and be 
>     able to read it!  That's how I usually proofread my documents 
>     now. ;) 
A friend has a monitor with a non-standard aspect ratio. It can
show a full page when it is in vertical mode, or he can rotate
it, hit a hot-key, and show two pages in landscape mode. It works
very well because the aspect ratio of the monitor is that of a
piece of paper. It takes a special video card and driver, too.
I've forgotten what it is called, but I've seen such monitors off
and on for 15 years or more. They are very good for desktop
publishers, where that is the primary use of the machine.
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