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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 01:31:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.054233.13324@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
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- >It is obvious that your divison head did not do his/her homework on
- >Word for Windows and WP for Windows before rendering judgement. If
- >the reasons were actually the command sequences and the file
- >formats, then they were excuses more than reasons. Microsoft took
- >great pains to write W4W such that you could use the WP command
- >keystrokes and provided a tutorial to ease the transition into W4W
- >command sets. Also, they read and write WP format as well, so I
- >fail to see where the justification was to stay with it.
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- Problem is that even with the WP help turned on using the same
- keystrokes in wordperfect causes a slow tutorial to come up, rather
- than a quick doing of whatever it was you needed to do. A good
- case in point was indenting a paragraph. In Wordperfect you simply
- hit F4. In Word F4 starts this long process whereby a menu item,
- then a dialog box pops out, some numbers change, and 5-6 seconds
- later the paragraph indents. Then supposing you want to put a bul-
- let in. In WP you point to before the indent code, then add the
- bullet character. Doing that in Word causes the bullet character
- to be indented as well.
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- In fact, bullets and indenting in Word are very good and easy to
- use.. The proper way to do indented paragraphs is to use the ruler,
- not the dialog box. The proper way to do bullets is to use the bullet
- tool. The problem isn't that they are better or worse, it is that
- they are very different. The consideration is basically one of re-
- training. Retraining costs _can_ be significant and can outweigh
- the advantages of a better word processor of you have a huge instal-
- led base of users and documents.
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