RE: XyWrite to Word

[Eberle, Jim]

A general comment: Why try to figure out how to make Word act like XyWrite when XyWrite is so fast and versatile, and files can easily be converted to Word.

Jim Eberle

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From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Patricia M. Godfrey on Friday, March 24, 2006
1:10 PM
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Subject Re: XyWrite to Word


Thomas J Hawley wrote:
> (Let me add in closing that learning XyWrite was not so simple either, but
> we've all mercifully forgotten those days.)

Actually, I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with Xy. I
was working in-house part-time for a computer magazine. They used Xy
(vers. III; forget the release no.), but had every known word processor
on their PCs, and let me keep using (blush) the Leading Edge Word
Processor I was used to (it came on my first PC). Had some down time,
pulled down the Xy manual (that superb Xy III looseleaf), read for maybe
an hour, took a few notes, and the next article I edited, I did in Xy.
Mind, I'm still learning things about it, but the basics were a piece of
cake.

Patricia M. Godfrey
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