12/28/2022 0 Comments Early mac word processorIf you opened the same document from Word’s file menu, it worked fine. I also discovered and reported an honest-to-god plain old bug in the software that would do the following: If you used the Make an index feature on a document and saved it, when launching Word by double-clicking on that document icon, it would crash and burn instantaneously. It had it’s quirky problems, and chief among them was an independent-minded numbering feature that would sometimes get out of control and change your numbering scheme in long documents without warning. That was probably the most-loved Mac word processor ever from Microsoft, and believe it or not there are still organizations that use it. Microsoft Word 5.1 was long beloved by Mac users.Īnyway, I remember having to use Word 5.1 on early Power Macs and ‘040 Macs. Like ending sentences with prepositions and having fragments. It underlines run-on sentences and sentences with split infinitives, which is borderline annoying but probably something I should pay more attention to. It caught and corrected some errors on the fly, which is nice. I discovered several nice things: It has the smartest spelling checker I’ve ever used, suggesting a previous spelling I’d used in the same document for specialized terminology (even though I never added the word to the user dictionary!). While working on this grant, I became more familiar with Word 2001, which in general I tend to avoid unless some student needs to translate a document. This mode of word processing became so commonplace that the older code-style word processing died out, and today my students don’t know what WSIWYG means, because that’s all they ever see. Later on, when WSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processors were popularized by the early Macs, these codes became hidden – you could see what the page was going to look like on the screen before you printed it. That’s when I got Micro$hafted and evil things began to happen. I asked the grant office via email if I could delete the question prompts, and they said yes. There were strict limitations on spacing, format, font size, and page counts, but at first I simply typed the document without regard to length, intending to edit it later.Īs regular readers of this column know, I tend to be a bit long-winded in print, and sure enough my 20-page submission turned into 35 pages. I saved a spare copy of the original and began filling out the questions. The grant instructions were written as a series of numbered questions, each requiring a response. Templates were provided, using Microsoft Word, of course. It absorbed my time not just because it was a lengthy proposal (approximately 20 pages of text and charts) but because it was supposed to be submitted in a particular format. 2001 – This is the first Mac Lab Report I’ve submitted for a while, primarily because I was working on a grant proposal for my school, and it absorbed all of my time.
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