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Old 07-30-2020, 08:34 AM   #102
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
Why would anyone use WordPerfect in 2020? It seems so obsolete.
Ironically, I actually have it, but, the reality is, that's solely because I need to. (That being said, somewhere in time, my particular version refuses to export to docx, so...I probably won't bother to upgrade it [so to speak] anytime soon.) I loved it, way back. Once you saw the codes, man, there was no going back.

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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Because it's familiar and they like it. Choice is good. Fortunately we don't live in a homogenized world.

That said, I (personally) never really liked WordPerfect either. I liked WordStar for DOS. I used it the entire time I used DR-DOS/MSDOS/OS/2 and Windows. When I went to Linux (13 years ago) I moved to its work-alike, Jstar (WordStar flavor of the JOE editor), because my fingers are hard-wired for WordStar keystrokes and it's faster for me.
Various word-processors still have and support those keyboard commands, but...we all get used to what we get used to.

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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Back in the day I liked WordPerfect, especially the "reveal codes" feature. It made it easy to see what was really going on with the internal coding of documents.

Once it became clear that MS Word was becoming the new standard for businesses I switched and never looked back.
All my then-customers had Word. As I mentioned earlier, God, I fought against it and hated and loathed it for...hell, IDK how many years. But, when I had to create a very, very large document for development I was getting ready to build, I was at wits' end and bothered to go to the then-available tutorials on MSFT's website, for outline view, headings, styles...and Moses on a Pony, that was eye-opening for me. I mean, sure, Word still does stuff that I don't love; but once I realized that MS had made it viable and the things I hated were due to my own stupidity in not learning it, well...yup, never looked back. That was in the 90's...how time flies when you're aging!

To be fair, though, that early grounding in Wordperfect made it easy-peasy for me to swing into HTML, though. :-) Conceptually, I mean.

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