In WP you have the “reveal code” feature. You can see the coding and fix the formatting. In Word that function doesn’t exist. That’s what drove me crazy trying to go from WP to Word.
]]>My second encounter was with an early version of WordPerfect for Windows, again in the context of attempting to help someone. The s/w was so buggy that it locked up twice in the few minutes I was using it. Twice. At least we didn’t lose an existing document, because WordPerfect would not run for long enough to create one.
There was no third encounter. And there will not be.
Whatever its purported virtues from a feature standpoint, WordPerfect is, or at least was, simply faulty. MS Word may suck, but it rarely if ever quits on me.
]]>But I dealt with documents in two steps: first I typed the text, then I formatted it. I started in the big iron world and that’s how it was done. WYSIWYG was not a big motivator for me, because it didn’t work all that well until the screens became 1023 X 768 for the printers used as output.
]]>Rook, profound is better that prolost. Give me a break, you do chess matches at your place. I do admit I’m a bit put off that I’ve never attracted a long-term troll, even though I will allow anyone to rant within reason.
MS never showed any respect for the company most responsible for their cash flow. For years their biggest seller was a CPM card for Apple IIs to enable people to run WordStar. MicroPro rested on their laurels and cash cow too long. WordStar/DataStar was the power user solution for mail merging for years.
]]>Like many other producers of successful DOS applications, WordStar International delayed before deciding to make a version for the commercially successful Windows 3.0. The company purchased Legacy, an existing Windows-based word processor, which was altered and released as WordStar for Windows in 1991. It was a well-reviewed product and included many features normally only found in more expensive desktop publishing packages. However, its delayed launch meant that Microsoft Word had already firmly established itself as the corporate standard during the two previous years.
There is a Wiki for everything! 😉
I was the Aus distro for MicroPro in the 80’s. I still have the CPM disks somewhere in archive. 🙂 Had CalcStar and DataStar… and the other little Star’s too! LOL
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]]>I’ve been reading a lot of mysteries lately, and I just wondered whether, say, Hercule Poirot would look the other way while I murdered Clippy. The only thing worse than Clippy is that damned cat, so of course Stella has substituted it for Clippy… a fact which one of her live kitties actually noticed one time.
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