[Am-info] Word Processing Features

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In a message dated 2002 February 07 (Thursday), timestamp 08:16 PM, 
   on the topic [Am-info] Word Processing Features,
   Sujal Shah <sujal@sujal.net> wrote:


"|Tier 1:
"|---------------

"|Stability
"|Fonts (sizes & faces)
"|Basic Formatting (justification, line spacing)
"|WYSIWYG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   MOVE TO TIER 2
"|Tables
"|Bullets, Special Characters
"|Footnotes/Endnotes

Add:  Multiple documents open at once 
Macros, macros, macros 
Spell-checking 
Macros, macros, macros 
Auto-hyphenation 
Macros, macros, macros 

"|Tier 2:
"|---------------

"|Outlines
"|TOC generation
"|Styles
"|Grammar checking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MOVE TO TIER 3 (or lower) 

Add: Basic formatting infinitely variable 
    (allow line spacing = 1.62, or font = 11.6 point, for instance) 
Redlining (most important feature of "versioning") 
Elementary math (ability to total columns in tables, for instance) 

"|Tier 3:
"|---------------

"|Colors >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MOVE TO Tier 77 (or lower) 
"|Versioning/Workgroup features >>>>> MOVE TO Tier 2 
"|internet features


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