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- From: spagiola@amy5.stanford.edu (Stefano P. Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect (YES!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.181757.16784@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
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- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul31.164425.6048@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 18:17:57 GMT
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- Ivan Vesely writes
- > Come on, somebody out there besides me must like WordPerfect?
-
-
- Well, I like it for all its features, the same reason that I liked
- the PC version. And of course, its just about the standard so having
- the file-compatibility is great.
- Having said that, many things are really crummy (its handling of tabs
- has 'pride' of place here, IMHO) and some things are very annoying
- (there is no way to save graphics box defaults, eg, and the styles
- menu is very badly organized). Also it slows down tremendously as
- soon as you have a significant number of font/formatting changes.
-
- The bottom line is that yes, it does what I need it to do, and other
- available programs don't. So I keep using it. But I doubt WP will
- survive very long if their strategy remains one of 'people have
- nowhere else to go, so it doesn't matter what we ship.'
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@leland.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-