"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" writes:

You probably had a Corel version. Corel added needed features, but also
eliminated the modular document format, which is unbelievable.

That's probably the case -- I don't recall seeing a "modular doc format"
item.

There was no such "item". The earlier versions of Ventura kept /everything/ in
separate files -- text, graphics, file locations, style sheets, etc. And all
the files were plain-text readable! (Thank you, Xerox!) One of the nice things
about this is that you could change the document's style just by substituting
a different style sheet -- a particularly useful feature if you wanted to
publish both paper and Web documents.

Unfortunately, Corel started wadding up everything into a single file. This
meant you had to create completely separate documents (rather than just style
sheets). And heaven help you if the file became corrupted -- you could lose
everything.


From the sound of it, perhaps this was something like FM's "book" feature".

It isn't. In Ventura, a book is a collection of chapters.


I worked around most of the VP bugs, but the killer was the placement of
tables and
figures. Settings for "place here" or "float to next page" did not work. At
random,
those items wound up at the end of the file, many pages away, sometimes in
random
order. Maddening.

It sounds as if you had the first Corel edition, v5. It had disastrous bugs,
including the one you describe. Corel had to issue a corrected version. Didn't
they tell you?