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From: emerrill@pro-carolina.UUCP (Eric Merrill)
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Subject: Re: A visit to WordPerfect Corp.
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Date: 1 Jul 89 04:46:33 GMT
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>One of the support people showed me WordPerfect on the GS, talk about
>slow to come up.  It took almost as long to boot it as it does to boot
>AppleworksGS, and it isn't near the program that Appleworks is.

I'd say it the other way around.  I have WordPerfect for my GS, and I love it.

I've used AppleWorks (both classic and GS) but am not especially fond of
either.  The features of WP that I use most are its _built-in_ spell checker,
_built-in_ macros, and powerful formatting commands, including automatic
creation of footers and headers.  It is much faster than AW/GS, but not as
fast
as AW/classic simply because of the screen display.

>This leads to what I thought most disappointing.  The program is just a word
>processor and nothing more.  It does not use what the GS is known for -
>graphics and sound - at all.

That's one of the features I find most disappointing--not being able to
incorporate sound into my documents!  :-)  It does not use GS fonts--at least
not yet.  According to WP Corp, the vapor-version they are working on now is
comparable to WP 5.0 for the IBM (includes graphics and page layout
capabilities).  For serious word processing, how many fancy fonts and graphics
do you need?  If you want to layout a newsletter or something similar,
obviously WP before the upcoming release is certainly not for you.

>I looked through the menus a little and to be honest, I don't know why anyone
>would ever buy and use WordPerfect instead of Appleworks.

I just am not that fond of AppleWorks.  AppleWorks GS is just a glorified
MacWrite!

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