The instances I'm thinking of actually involve formatting. I use the bns for most of my word processing, and I find myself using it's extensive formatting features a lot. Greg On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:56:05AM -0500, Amanda Lee wrote: > Word Files, as is the case with anything in Windows, are unnecessarily > full of overhead just to convey text. I like to use Notepad a lot for > various tasks and it is much faster than Word or even Wordpad which will > read Word6 format. So why create extra unnecessary overhead in the first > place. If you need to enhance a document with special fonts, formatting, > etc., then fine but most times, Word is a huge hog. > > Amanda Lee > Alexandria, VA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup