My employer of 14 years used WP for years. Every new version came to my desk first; I'd install it, sweat and struggle with its bugs, work with their support people, and after a while tell my boss "Ok, it's ready for distribution" and we'd put the new version out on the users' desks.
One year I was busy with something else and just couldn't find the time to sweat and struggle with the latest version - 5.1 or 5.2, I forget which. We eventually gave up and switched to MS Word, and it's my fault. My own evaluation is that Word is easier to use for the easy stuff, like bold and italic. If you're doing anything complicated, like a ToC, WP is easier. And I have to admit that most users don't ever have a use for the hard stuff. Still, I think WP was the better product overall - and, like you and every other WP user in the world, Reveal-Codes is the feature I think of first when comparing it favorably with Word. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -Fred Allen */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 19:24 Wordperfect is still alive and well, I have the 2021 Standard version installed on all my home machines. My wife won't use anything else because of that most excellent "reveal codes" feature. https://www.wordperfect.com/en/ IMHO TOC in Wordperfect is a piece of cake, and it makes "newspaper mode" two-column document writing easy too. And it is still the only mass-market word processor that does something that AFAIK only lawyers need - Tables of Authority for collecting references to existing case law in a brief into a consolidated list. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:58 PM I really miss WordPerfect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
