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Re: Does anyone still use WordPerfect? -- Former WP Instructor
Subject:Re: Does anyone still use WordPerfect? -- Former WP Instructor From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:mariposa <mariposa625 -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:30:27 -0400
mariposa wrote:
>
> I did not like WordPerfect and Corel should be ashamed
> of themselves for such a buggy version of WP 9. I
> actually liked the earlier versions of WP better.
>
You certainly are correct in stating that the early version of
WordPerfect nine was buggy. I certainly hope you are not saying that
Microsoft Word was less buggy in the initial release. You will find that
WordPerfect 9 with the latest service pack applied it is an extremely
functional and stable product. Reveal codes is not the only benefit to
using WordPerfect, if you a document is longer than four pages and you
have any amount of cross-referencing and/or paragraph numbering schemes.
While you may feel that WordPerfect is counterintuitive, most users find
just the opposite. Moreover, it is a simple matter to remap the keyboard
in WordPerfect to exactly mimic the keyboard in Microsoft Word.
--
Peter
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved
promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories)
