[P1] Word formatting in Mac, PC

Eric B. Richardson lbyron at comcast.net
Wed Jul 30 05:53:31 PDT 2003


At 6:48 PM -0600 7/29/03, Harry D.  Corsover wrote:
>----- On 7/29/03 6:23 PM MDT (-0600), Charles Martin <chasm at mac.com>
>wrote, in part:
>
>>ThinkFree Office can handle the "track changes" feature of Word. Just a
>>datapoint.
>
>Charles,
>
>When you say "handle," do you mean read, or also write? I've found it
>quite useful (and a big time-saver) when several people were
>collaborating on a document. We were able to do in three days what
>otherwise might have taken weeks. Each person's changes or comments were
>indicated with the date and author, all in a single document, with the
>comments popping up when the cursor was moved over a marked area.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Harry Corsover
>(far from a fan of Word in general)

This sounds useful.

But for me, ThinkFree Office was so unbearably slow that it was 
unusable. I last checked it out about three months ago. Have there 
been any changes that warrant checking it out again?

BTW, I saw your name on a list as winning a printer or something a 
while back. Congrats.

Eric



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