I tried the suggestion also and got the same tedious process. They must have hired someone at MS to be the director of smoke and mirrors - it looks like it starts OK then takes you to this black hole...... This is exactly what I'm talking about. Those of us dinosaurs have seen what is possible and don't always follow the MS bandwagon as being the "advanced Microsoft software" as it says in the IE television ad. Like I said, not to take away from some of their achievements, but many other products are simply better, but have been squashed by the MS juggernaught.
Bernie Corrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/24/2003 01:33:58 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RBASE-L Mailing List) cc: (bcc: Bob Castanaro/BCH) 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. > >
