Mike -
I'm aware that in Word you can put the cursor somewhere in a
document, look up at the tool bar, and see what the current font, etc, are.
I quite often need to see the whole picture, not just a little smidgen of
it. From a human performance perspective Word is a creator of mistakes and
minor disasters. It simply cannot provide the user with the information
needed to create new complex documents easily and quickly. The user can't
see what is happening in the document infrastructure. People with eidetic
memory won't be affected much; however, that's about one in a million.
Several of my clients with major word processing departments tried
to go to Word from WordPerfect and found that productivity dropped about 25%
after the staff had become used to Word. They all went back to WordPerfect.
I should note that these people were all doing either legal or medical
wordprocessing.
Bernie
At 01:03 PM 7/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>The reason Reveal Codes were a necessity in WP was because when you
inserted them, IIRC, the only
>clue that there was a code was block highlighting/underlining on the
affected text. In the instance
>of FontSize, Reveal Codes was the ONLY way to determine this.
>
> In Word, these things are Visible to the naked eye, and there is no reason
to have a separate
>screen environment to display the cryptic representation of them. OTTOMH,
I can think of nothing in
>Word that I can do with formatting or Font that isn't Patently visible to
the casual observer.
>
> Remember, wherever your cursor is focusing in the document, the
appropriate toolbar control [if
>currently displayed] shows the status of the format at that location,
notwithstanding the former,
>that it is Visible. Did I say Visible. Yup. Visible. ;-)
>
>Bernie, I started with EasyWriter in 1983, then WordStar, then to
WP4-WP6.1, then Word97. I
>actually could do pretty much everything I needed to do to write a letter
in EasyWriter, but
>sometimes I need something more, and what suits me today is Word. It just
doesn't suit everyone
>and that is great in my view.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bernie Corrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:33 PM
>Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic
>
>
>> What in the heck are you talking about? TTBOMK THERE ARE NO REVEAL CODES IN
>> WORD that are the equivalent of what is available in WP. Through an
>> extremely lengthy and tedious process you can look at what MicroBloat
>> inserts in the huge doc files BUT YOU CAN'T MANIPULATE THOSE CODES OR DELETE
>> THEM. You can't even see them. You can guess as to where they are, then
>> click on Help > WordPerfect Help > (Scroll down) Reveal. After all that
>> Word will tell you what secret codes are right exactly where you have
>> clicked on the document and nowhere else. You have to go hunting around to
>> find them. In WP you simply hit Alt-F3 and there they are. Right where
>> they occur in the document. You can see all of them. ALL OF THEM. AT THE
>> SAME TIME. You can move them. You can delete them.
>>
>> Perhaps you can tell me how to do this in the same way in Word? I'd love to
>> know.
>>
>>
>> At 11:04 AM 7/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> >"Reveal Codes". Check Words' Help>WordPerfect Help>Reveal Codes. You will
>> find there is no
>> >difference between the two. Word just does it differently. I too was a
>> "Wordperfect holdout" up
>> >to ver 6.1, but when it came to using its macro language, I switched
>> quickly to the friendly VBA
>> >environment (current WP uses VBA, not the old macro lang). In Word, I can
>> launch a template
>> >document that includes VBA Code that connects to my RBase database, select
>> one or a list of
>> >recipients that the doc goes to and let'er rip. No Merge list, etc. I
>> also was a DOS holdout,
>> >dragged kicking and screaming to windows. I don't look back(although I
>> frequently open a command
>> >window for some things that I can still do handily from there, but that is
>> not typical of todays'
>> >users).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:47 PM
>> >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic
>> >
>> >
>> >That's like say you prefer to break bread with your hands rather than
>> >using a knife.
>> >
>> >
>> >Eric Peterson
>> >IT Manager
>> >QMI Security Solutions
>> >
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Bernie Corrigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:41 PM
>> >To: RBASE-L Mailing List
>> >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic
>> >
>> >>And WordPerfect still has "reveal codes", the best feature ever in a
>> >word
>> >>processor. Too bad Novell has no clue how to market itself.....
>> >
>> >WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS (circa 1990) is in many ways a better
>> >wordprocessing
>> >program than any version of M$ Word.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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