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From: tamara@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A visit to WordPerfect Corp.
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Date: 27 Jul 89 22:55:51 GMT
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Reply-To: tamara@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Tamara Fischell)
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>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.  This leads to what I thought most
>disappointing.  The program is just a word processor and nothing more.  It does
The program is designed to be just a word processor. It has more
than Appleworks GS as far as a word processor though:  To name
just two (1) a spelling checker (including a word counter--useful
to writers) and (2) a Thesaurus.
>not use what the GS is known for - graphics and sound - at all.  I looked
I don't see why a word processor has to use graphics and sound
necessarily. It _does_ have pull down easy to use menus which
seem to take pretty good advantage of the IIgs system. 
  
>through the menus a little and to be honest, I don't know why anyone would ever
>buy and use WordPerfect instead of Appleworks.  The one big advantage all WP
Well I would. For one thing I can use the numeric key pad as if
it were on a PC. (Don't groan folks.) When you do a lot of
writing at work you get used to function keys--especially ones
which take you to the beginning of your document, line, etc.
>products have, however, is that the data files can be transfered between
>machines (apple to ibm) with great ease.
This is just one of the advantages--and I might mention it is
a really good one when you have different people using several
different machines. Any other programs would lose formatting
(e.g., sub and super scripts) but Word Perfect retains all
this. There are also much more options in formatting a document.
I must admit I haven't used Apple Works that much. Let me ask you
Does it have headers/footers that can be opened and edited and
automatically placed on each page?
  
Does it create footnotes?
Does it have pull down menus as well as function key equivalents?
  
Does it have WYSIWYG?
  
Does it show you hidden commands which turn on bolding, underlining,
margin changes, font changes, etc?
   
Does it have a built in thesaurus?
  
Does it have a built-in spelling checker?
  
Can it do hanging indents?
Does it have hanging indents?
  
Can you start page numbering with any page number automatically?
I don't think you use a word processor to it's fullest capabilities.
I think one of the problems with Apple Works is it does a lot
of things and therefore the power in a word processing stand alone
program is lost.
  
These are just a few I can think of off the top of my head.
  
Bottom line:  I really like it. So there :-)
  
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