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From: bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WinWord 2.0 - applying styles to single words within paragraphs?
Date: 25 Sep 92 20:09:54 GMT
Organization: Augustana University College, Camrose, aAlberta

In article <1992Sep24.115710.20028@ugle.unit.no>, mariusk@idt.unit.no (Marius Kjeldahl) writes:
> I wonder if anybody know how to apply styles to single words within a
> paragraph in Word for Window 2.0. I can easily apply styles to whole
> paragraphs, but can not find a way to do this with a single word
> withing the paragraph. 
> 

 ...

As a satisfied Word for DOS 5.5 user who recently moved to Word for
Windows, I found this lack to be completly astonishing.  Character/word
styles was a feature of Word for DOS that I used frequently.  Finally after
contacter two different people at Microsoft tech. support (the first person
didn't have a clue what I was talking about) I got the answer: Word for
Windows does not support character/word styles and there are no plans right
now to implement it.

I wrote a nice letter (on letterhead) to Microsoft asking for this feature
to be given serious consideration, and gave some examples where I would
find it useful (my documents often contain words and sentences in 4 or 5
different languages, including using fonts like Greek and Hebrew),
indicating that using styles is much more reasonable for combinations of
font + size + proofing language than multiple keystrokes.  Yes, I know
about macros, but that is conceptually inferior and causes complications
when trying to make global changes (changing a style is easier than global
search and replace on a style).  Microsoft replied politely to my letter
and said, in essence, that they would throw the idea into the hopper for
future consideration.

I suggest that anyone else who would find character styles to be useful
write a respectful letter to Microsoft making such a request.  Microsoft
has in the past been gratifyingly sensitive to user response, so I do have
some hope that this will be (re-)implemented in some future version.

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From: IMER400@indyvax.iupui.edu (Martha Rapp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: excel to fixed format
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:30:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: indyvax.IMER400.5.718378233
Distribution: world
Organization: Integrated Technologies IUPUI

We have some excel version 3 files which we need to convert to fixed file 
format for SAS. Unfortunately the files have missing values. Any ideas would 
be appreciated. Thanks

Martha Rapp
imer400@indyvax.iupui.edu
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: gmadden@guitar.oit.unc.edu (Greg Madden)
Subject: MS Word; MS Excel; Truetype; HP LJ IIP; Landscape; Problem
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:11:12 GMT

We have the following problem.  Using any Microsoft application (we believe;
definitely with Word and Excel) within Windows 3.1, if we use any Truetype
font and attempt to print Landscape, we are unable to make it work.  The
symptom is that the light flashes on the printer, and then we get the error
message "Print Monitor cannot print" or some such.  We can print in portrait,
we can print landscape with non-Truetype fonts, we can print from outside
of Windows.  We have now replicated this problem in two situations:
1) running applications over the network, Windows local, printer on the
network; 2) running everything local in a non-networked office.  
The printer is an HP Laserjet IIP.  If anyone has seen this problem or can
replicate it, please email me.  I will summarize to the net if it seems to
be warranted.
Thank You,
Greg Madden; greg_madden@unc.edu; Microcomputer User Service; OIT; UNC-CH

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rharmon@triton.srg (Robert Harmon)
Subject: Re: Windows & Telnet/News/FTP from remote
Organization: Arinc Research Corporation, Annapolis MD
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:35:52
	<mccashin.718321398@unixg.ubc.ca>

In article <mccashin.718321398@unixg.ubc.ca> mccashin@unixg.ubc.ca (Brian McCashin) writes:
   >are dial-in connections.  Is there an application (or a way to use
   >qvtnet) for a remotely connected Windows terminal?

   There's no easy way. The host has to be dialed first (with an asychronous
   emulator) outside of windows. Then the host has to be put into slip mode
   (if your host supports it) and qvtnet has to be reconfigured to use the IP 
   address that your dialin port has been assigned before your SLIP driver and 
   windows is loaded.Basically its a major pain.

There is a public domain PPP for UNIX.  PPP is a light-weight TCP/IP
protocol that supports dialup connections and telnet/ftp/smtp/r*
protocols.  PPP replaces SLIP and has less overhead, its
usually faster than SLIP.

PPP is probably fairly portable.
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From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: CD Player for Windows
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:01:27 GMT
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <mR96RB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> gerry@bluemoon.rn.com (Gerard M. Foley) writes:
>goldsborough@brandonu.ca (Gordon Goldsborough) writes:
>
>> 
>> I'm using a shareware utility called Win CD that works great and it's
>> cheap: the registration is only $9.95. It available at cica as
>> CDPLAY10.ZIP (I think).
>> 
>
>What's cica? Is this a driver, or does it include one?
>
>gerry@bluemoon.rn  My amateur radio callsign is K8EF, and my
>packet radio address is K8EF@W8CQK.OH.USA.NA

cica is the FTP site ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I found both CDPLAY10.ZIP
and WCD130.ZIP there in pub/pc/win3/sounds directory.  Still I feel
the CDAUDIO (don't know the zip name) is better (finally got it working
when I replaced the CD ROM driver) since it allows you to type in the
names of the tracks for retrieval later. Looks prettier too!

Laurence Chiu
From: raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: WfW 2.0, Truetype
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:15:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: moe.1asojlINNan6
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu

I am having a weird problem with WfW 2.0 (no - it is not 2.0a or 2.0b).
I have ATM and TT fonts coexisting just fine. I converted a particula
ATM font to TT and it shows up fine in Windows - installable under Control
Panel. The font shows up correctly in Windows Write but *not* in WfW!!

I have tried pretty much everything I could think of...


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From: gordy@das.harvard.edu (Robert Gordy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: ATIDRV
Keywords: ATI ULTRA drivers
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:44:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Oct1.134423.24780
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1992Sep30.135337.19839@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, gfini@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gianluca Fini) writes:
|> 
|> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
|> Subject: ATIdrv
|> Summary: ATIdrv
|> Keywords: ATIdrv
|> 
|> I own an ati graphic ULTRA. I received the drivers for Win3.1 dated
|> 22/4/92. I also have cristalfonts drivers.
|> But... this drivers are not complete....I do not have the driver for
|> 1280x1024 res. and the cristal fonts for 800x600.
|> Thi8s drivers are also quite slow.The ati ULTRA should be very fast!
|> 
|> If someone has new drivers please mail to
|>  tbra380@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (131.175.6.2) 
|> 
|> 
|> tHANKS IN ADVANCE

I would also like to get the latest drivers.

Thanks,

Rob Gordy
gordy@das.harvard.edu
gordy@world.std.com
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WinQVT: Any success stories?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 21:31:35 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

|>****Winqvt IS NOT FREEWARE******
|>From readme.wri in archive:
|>Registration Information
|>
|>WinQVT is a shareware product. Should you find it useful and suitable for 
|>your requirements, we ask that you remit $50 to:
|>                   ------
|>
|>QPC Software
|>P.O. Box 226
|>Penfield, NY  14526
|>-- 
|> Brian McCashin                            Internet: mccashin@unixg.ubc.ca
|> Senior Programmer/Analyst                 Phone: 604-822-5502
|> Centre For Health Services and Policy Research
|> University of British Columbia, Vancouver CANADA

	Yes, winqvt is a shareware, not a freeware.
	-Anis.
From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WinQVT: Any success stories?
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:13:25 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <00961717.2ACD9080@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>I have not followed this group recently, but I can share my experience.
>I have ftp'd and using winqvt478 from cica without any trouble. I like
>this program (thanks to the person who recommended, sorry can't recall
>his name off hand). 

QVT needs lots of things; the script language is very minimal; the program
is VERY slow in things like scrolling text; setup could be better; and it
does not support ascii uploads, forcing you to use the windows clipboard
instead.

>The best part is true background operation while
>one can the foreground for something else!!

Almost. Any windows application will do this. QVT has been giving me 
trouble in causing windows to ignore certain events; many times while
downloading it will not let me click right (i.e. ignores it).

Spiros



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
Subject: Hidden apps at startup?
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 17:24:58 EDT

How can I start apps hidden at startup, if at all? I'm thinking specifically
of the kind that display an icon on the desktop, but don't really need to be
seen during the session. I'm running Win 3.1 and NDW 2.0; the options I see
for startup are Normal, Maximized, and Minimized. Can I hide them somehow?
 
Thanks for your help.
 
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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: 386MAX and Windows 3.1?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:30:58 GMT

jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard) writes:

>Has anyone installed the 386MAX that comes with the C/C++ 7.0 on top of
>Windows 3.1?  After installing it (in place of himem.sys and emm386.sys)
>windows will display the startup logo, then exit immediately, with no
>error message or any other useful information.

Sounds like a memory conflict somewhere; I've had no problems with 
the combination.  (I don't think it matters, but I'm running 386^max
version 6.02: the MSC 7 box includes version 6.01, to which I added
the patch file you can download from Qualitas' BBS.)

Try starting your Windows session with the /B switch, then when it fails
look at the file BOOTLOG.TXT to see where it was when it aborted.

You might also try the /D:F /D:S /D:V and /D:X switches to turn off
some of the more esoteric options in case they are bombing.

The options are explained if you enter the command   WIN /?  (which will
just print the help info; Windows will not start from this command).

Check your adapter cards. Some cards -- I particularly suspect Ethernet
and SCSI flavors -- are designed in a way which makes Windows miscalculate
just what parts of the adapter address space are available; it's possible
that 386^max has the same problem.

Joe Morris / MITRE

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: charlesk@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Hak Kim)
Subject: NDW2.0 Changing Icon Fonts
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:52:38 GMT

Salutations and Greetings.

I'm having a problem trying to get NDW to use a different
icon font for its desktop.  If anyone can tell me how
to do it, or tell me where in the manual it tells me, I
would be most gratified.

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Charles H. Kim

charlesk@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung)
Subject: Ami Pro 3.0 and Spanish dictionary....
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:20:33 GMT

Hello all!  I currently use Ami Pro 3.0 and have been generally
satisfied with it.  But I am unable to use the Spanish dictionary
that I used with Ami Pro 2.0.  The software seems to install fine but
when I go to the language option in the spell check section, I don't have
Spanish as an option; all I get is American and British.  Does anyone 
using Ami Pro know what could be the problem?  I would hate to think that
I have to upgrade the dictionary version for Ami Pro 3.0.

Thank you.

-F.
From: weiss@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: ATIDRV
Keywords: ATI ULTRA drivers
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:30:39 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

I'm using the ATI Ultra drivers with an ATI Vantage with 1MB of RAM on two
different computers.  Both are ALR BusinessVEISAs with 486-33s, and 5MB RAM.

The drivers for Win31 work beautifully, except for one thing.  When doing the
CTRL-ALT-DEL thing under Windows, the text on the "Are you sure you want to
terminate this program" screen is completely garbled.  The colors are correct,
but all of the characters are the "checkerboard" character.

Anyone know why this is?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: Trouble with Word4Windows 2.0's Equation editor
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 12:04:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.091858.4510@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, pniemi@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Pekka Niemi) writes:
|> 
|> Hi, Netland!
|> 
|>   I have a problem with MS-Word for Windows 2.0's equation editor.  It
|>   claims that both MT-Extra and Fences fonts are missing for the
|>   default printer, no matter what printer I'm using.  Some of the
|>   characters used within equations (parentheses, for example) print
|>   out as b's and g's.  I had a look at my ~windows\system and found
|>   both the .ttf and .fot files for those fonts.  The control panel's
|>   font manager regognizes the patricular fonts but can't show any
|>   example text for them (well, this possibly isn't a bug  -  I don't
|>   know, what characters can be found from those fonts).
|> 
|>   I have tried reinstallation several times with no luck.  (If this
|>   helps, I do the custom installation  -  don't need all that stuff
|>   for the WP users etc.)
|> 
|>   ANY ideas?
|> 
|>       pen
|> 
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|> 01480 VANTAA		
|> tel. home +358-0-851 1236 work +358-0-160 3988

This is a bug in the installation program. To fix it, go into the font control panel, and
remove these two fonts from the active list, but not from disk. Then use the control panel
to install the two fonts "Fences Plain" and "MT-Extra Plain" into the active font list.
Samples of the fonts should appear in the font box, and the fonts should be active in the
equation editor.


Daniel Silevitch                       dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ddavis@highlite.uucp (Darrel L. Davis)
Subject: PC/MAC MS-PRoject questions
Summary: NEED PC/MAC to share project management data
Keywords: pc, mac, project
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:01:36 GMT






I'm a PC'er with a need to interact with a MAC using a project package.  The 
need is for fairly seamless project data between Mac's & PC's.

Has anyone had much experience importing PC Microsoft Project for Windows files into the Mac version of Microsoft Project.  Is it painless? Are there any 
inherent problems?  Any guidance would be appreciated.

I would also appreciate any info I could get on other Mac project software that has capability to trade data with a PC.

-Darrel-




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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mcguirk@appliedmicro.ns.ca (Ken McGuirk)
Subject: Re: 386 Matlab & MS Windows Problem
Organization: Burchill Communications Research Group
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:15:54 GMT

In article <2-cz8!h@rpi.edu> hughes@yingyang.ral.rpi.edu (Declan Hughes) writes:

>  I am trying to run 386 Matlab on a 486 machine through MS
> Windows 3.1. It works fine if Windows is not loaded (.e.,
> directly form DOS5 or 4DOS+DOS5) however when run as an application
> or through DOS5 accessed through Windows I get the following error,

>  Phar Lap err 35: The 386 chip is currently executing in virtual 8086 mode
>  under the control of another program. You must turn off this other program
>  in order to use 386|DOS-Extender to run in protected mode .

I run Version 386-Matlab 3.5l and must use the following statement in my 
config.sys to run matalab from windows:

  (with dos 5.0)
     device=himem.sys
     device=emm386.exe frame=none

try it out!  This does cause some problems with a few other programs!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: Importing Excel Spreadsheets Into Word Tables
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:53:14 GMT

In <1992Oct1.061125.16420@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:

>In article <7139@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren Bala) 
>writes:
>>Does anyone know of an easy way of importing an Excel (Version 4.0 worksheet 
>>into a Word for Windows (version 2.0a) table ?

>I ran into that problem last week.  I solved it by saving the worksheet in
>Excel 3 format.

>I didn't try pulling it in through OLE.  That might work, but I doubt it.

>Perhaps 2.0b, which Microsoft is sending to anyone who has a need for it,
>will have the fix.  Does anyone know?  (My copy is back-ordered -- maybe
>I'll get it by the end of October.) 


You can get the following from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
mirrors3/win3/winword directory. It is

xl2word.zip     920626  Update WinWord Converter to Accept Excel 4 Files

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu (James Reed)
Subject: Running DOS graphics apps in windows.
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:06:49 GMT

My roommate finally got his 50Mhz 486 computer up here (YEAH!) with all kinds
of neat things.  One of which is a nice monitor/card (Paradise), that supports
Super VGA resolutions (suprise, suprise).  However, even after installing the
3.1 Paradise drivers (receive from wuarchive), it won't allow you to run DOS
graphics programs in windows -- but it will if you use the standard VGA 
driver that comes with windows.  When a DOS application in a window enters a
graphic mode, Windows pops up a box saying something like: '...only one 
program can be using high graphics at one time...this application will be 
paused until the other applications stop or this application is made full 
screen...'.  Obviously, windows is the 'other application' it is refering to,
but why???  If anyone knows a fix for this we would both be eternally 
grateful...

jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: FAXit? Or WinFAX?
Keywords: FAX
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:29:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: tc.1992Sep29.172930.10771
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Distribution: na
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/

In <1992Sep29.042340.140@shawn.uucp> root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor) writes:
>My advise: look beyond both WinFAX and FAXit -- there's GOT to
>be something better...

I've had very good reliability, and been very impressed, with Intel's
Faxability Plus software (the fully-functional package, not the send-only
package that comes with the Intel SatisFAXtion boards.)  The design is
very Windows-like, as well, and I've found it extremely easy to use.  (It's
reviewed in the October 13th, 1992 PC Magazine, BTW.)  I haven't tried the
built-in OCR version of the software -- I don't need the capability, and
I've heard that if you're going to OCR faxes, you might as well get
a program that specializes in it.

HOWEVER, I should point out that I'm using an Intel SatisFAXtion 400 modem
with it.  The software works with other Fax modems, I understand; but I have
no experience with those.  My only complaint with the SatisFAXtion 400 is
the large DOS TSR program it requires to be loaded, even when you're just
using the board in Windows.

PS There's a new version of the send-only FAXability Plus software that
   works with the SatisFAXtion modems on the Intel download board.

                           "If we really wanted to be Machiavellian jerks,
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From: my@berlioz.nsc.com (Mike Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: FAXit?  Or WinFAX?
Summary: Which FAX software to use?
Keywords: FAX
Date: 27 Sep 92 05:03:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Distribution: na
Organization: National Semiconductor Corp.
Originator: my@laverde


Hello,
	I would like to know which Window FAX software people like.
I am planning to purchase a FAX/modem card for a 386 PC and I would
like to run that card in MS Windows.  One card (NUVOTEL 96424IFX) 
that I looked at includes the FAXit software, but I would like to
know what people think about the FAXit software.  How does it compare
to WinFAX (or WinFAX Pro)?  Should I pick a card (althought higher
price) which includes the WinFAX software?



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