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title: "Toward a New (QL) World Order"
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excerpt: "1 write many documents with text in columns and QUILL isn't much help in automatically rearranging text. I have found that ABACUS is a handy program with some word processing functions unavailable in QUILL."
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# Toward a New (QL) World Order

1 write many documents with text in columns and QUILL isn’t much help in automatically rearranging text. I have found that ABACUS is a handy program with some word processing functions unavailable in QUILL.