![]() ![]() Those changes are "revealed" constantly, and are easily found and edited when necessary. WP allows the user to insert formatting and other changes and additions ("codes") to his or her work while retaining the ability to view those changes in a separate window below the main text. Any writer, legal secretary, or other user familiar with both programs despairs using Word to make changes in the course of preparing a document. Feature, for feature, Word is usually a distant second, notwithstanding that it has had over 25 years to match the achievements of WordPerfect.Īs one example, Microsoft has never been able to implement anything comparable to WP's "reveal codes," despite a few anemic attempts to do so. Still, despite being numero uno in sales and distribution, Word does not compare favorably with WordPerfect where it matters - in productivity, usability, versatility and sheer power. In no time, Word's user base overtook WordPerfect's, and for more than 20 years, Microsoft has dominated the word processing universe. In no time, Microsoft also recognized that installing its office suites on most PC's (at no cost to buyers) would give them a huge competitive advantage over the folks at Borland (later Novell, and later still, Corel), who had no such access to PC consumers - and who were struggling through those crucial years financially to remain afloat with necessary sales of their companies' products. It's a real shame that the folks at Microsoft were able to capitalize on the fact that their operating system, installed on virtually all PC's, was a product that, almost from the beginning, completely monopolized the marketplace. I have never found any substitute as powerful or as versatile - or as easy to customize in so many ways to my own personal needs and idiosyncrasies as WordPerfect. I have tried several other software programs, including Word 97, Word 2003, and Word 2010, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and IBM Lotus Word Pro (among others). In 1989, I switched to WordPerfect 5.1 for MS-DOS, and three or four years later to WordPerfect 6.0, a wonderful MS-DOS product with a graphical interface.īy 1996 I graduated to WordPerfect's superb 6.1 for Windows 95, and in the years that followed, to WP 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and X6. It came with WordStar on a 5.25-inch floppy disk. My first PC was an IBM-compatible Sanyo, purchased in 1983 for my solo law practice. In another lifetime, I was able to persuade the local government agency that then employed me to lease or purchase an IBM MC/ST ("Magnetic Card/Selectric Typewriter"), a truly marvelous and genuine, albeit primitive, dedicated word processor. I have a long history using word processors from as long ago as 1969, before the advent of PCs. Without a doubt, this was the easiest installation I've ever experienced with this venerable (and much loved) program. ![]() The macros, templates, address book, keyboards, toolbars and other features which I have so carefully crafted and modified over the years in various iterations of WordPerfect were merged into WP17 with nary a hiccup. It was surprisingly easy and painless to upgrade to WPX7 from two earlier versions (WP12 and WPX6).
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