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From: bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Word Processor
Message-ID: <89Oct6.102747edt.10878@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 14:28:36 GMT
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I'd like to add my voice to that of a previous poster who was happy with
Microsoft Word.  I used to be a Word Perfect fan, but switched to Word
because I found it much more intuitive and easier to use.  It's very 
different than most other PC word processors in that it's very object-
oriented (you select some text and then do something with it) but you
get used to that very quickly.  I think I'm in a good position to compare
the "big two" (MS Word and Word Perfect) because I used both extensively
and I still help my father a lot with Word Perfect.

The bottom line is that they are almost identical (MS Word 5.0 and WP 5.5
or whatever the latest version is) if you look at the features sheets, but
I find that I am producing much more advanced documents than people I know
who have Word Perfect simply because it's so much easier to do in Word.  I
always had to fight with Word Perfect to get it to do a lot of fancy things.

Besides, the educational price on MS Word is really great -- I bought it
in version 4.0, and they let me upgrade to a full version 5.0 when it
became available.  I can assure you that the educational version of Word
is *exactly* the same program as the full version.  (I assume from your 
89$ price that you are considering the educational version.)

Of course, I'm just a satisfied customer :-)

					(-:  Brad Brown  :-)
					bradb@ai.utoronto.ca