Medical/Legal was a niche that WP Dominated. WP corp wrote many, many macros to suit the needs of those industries. Both Lawfirms I still service, use WP for this reason. The main point I was trying to expose was there is nothing hidden in word that needs revealing that I can think of at the moment. I will agree that after using WP for several years, it was not an immediate or easy transition to Word, as I had a great dependence on "reveal codes". At this point, I get along without them and don't see how it would change the operation of Word as it is currently structured.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie Corrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic > 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. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > >
