Re: Virtues of Xy

[Nicholas Browse nbrowse@xxxxxxxx]

Sure, I do this all the time. Lets me develop a cost estimate more heavily
formatted than I could do in a spreadsheet, and I work my way down through
the document copying bits of stuff into a summary paragraph at the head.
I'd get lost if I had to skip back and forth through the file all the time.
 Easier than bookmarks.

At 05:50 PM 10/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Just incidentally, does anyone besides me value the ability to have a file
>in a window and call up the same file under the same name? (I have to do
>this so often that I've written a macro called CALLSAME.PM (based on
>Tyson's RUNSAME) and I've even put it on a key. That's because I have a
>brain like a gerbil, and when XyWrite stops me from closing a file without
>saving it, I can't remember whether what I've done to the file is
>significant or not. So I call it up again and do a quick and simple
>comparison between them (and if _that_ is possible in MS Word, I don't know
>how).
>
>Cheers
>Eric Van Tassel
>
>


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