Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsj!jwi From: jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.1: Questions Summary: WP51 is better, thank you. Keywords: WordPerfect, features, tables Message-ID: <2822@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Date: 13 Dec 89 14:31:10 GMT References: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 37 A.j. Fried writes: > > Does anyone out there have any experience with WordPerfect version 5.1? > Specifically, the so called "table editor". How does this table editor work, > and how is the output compared to the kinds of things you can create with Lotus 123 and Allways. Does WordPerfect offer the same sort of formatting > flexibility? It works very well. It is easy to use and reasonably intuitive. I haven't used 123 or Always, so I can't compare. > Also, I understand that, unlike V. 5.0 which would only print special > characters supported by your printer, V5.1 will treat all special characters > as graphics thus allowing them to be printed on any printer. Is this true? Yes > Well, thanks. Any other WordPerfect V5.1 comments will be appreciated. The documentation is much better -- almost twice as thick and more readable and complete. The new macro/merge facilities offer some really interesting possibilities of executable text. A significant imporvement. The mouse support is very nice for those things that you don't use often enough to have memorized. For the everyday functions, keystrokes are much faster than moving your hand to the mouse. There are hundreds of improvements and new features, but the major stuff is tables, macros, merge and mouse. Absolutely worth the $85 upgrade cost. Jim Winer -- Post, don't email, I usually can't reply. ----------------------------------------------------------------- opinions not necessarily | "And remember, rebooting your brain and do not represent | can be tricky." -- Chris Miller any other sane person | especially not employer. |