• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    WordPerfect’s “Reveal Codes” mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It’s like viewing the HTML of a web page.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t have a copy of Word handy, but I don’t think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.

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          4 months ago

          Correct. Word’s was page and whitespace only, Wordperfect was nearer to markup, like HTML/XML, you could see bold, italic, font size changes, etc.

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    Is there anything ms word can do that word perfect couldn’t do back then? Ms word is so clunky

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      4 months ago

      Well yes, there are a lot more features in MS Word >!(that nobody actually needs and asked for)!<.

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    My school had WordPerfect on every computer in like, 2013. I had to install AbiWord Portable on a USB disk just so I could work on .doc files without the formatting being royally fucked up.

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      4 months ago

      Ironically, WP for Macintosh was probably the best WYSIWYG word processor in existence, especially since the great Word 5.1->6.0 regression.

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    I wrote documentation at Ford for a while and when we switched from WordPerfect to Word I got a waver for 2 years to continue using WordPerfect because it was so much more efficient because of the ability to see all formatting. When they forced me to Word I quit writing documents for the most part