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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.0 & 5.1 VS Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <6992@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 May 90 07:28:47 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <90123.173417LAIH@QUCDN.BITNET> LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Hubert Lai) writes:
>You ask about how Microsoft Word for Windows and WordPerfect 5.x compare,
>and whether Word for Windows has all of the features and capabilities of
>WordPerfect.  In short, the answer is yes.  Word and WordPerfect are each
>approximately equal in terms of their feature sets.

WordPerfect 5.1 introduces a VERY useful feature for which there is no
parallel in WFW:  the Equation Editor.  Many people may have no use for
this, but I am an undergrad at a science/engineering school, and thus use it
very frequently.  On the other hand, I know there is a dedicated equation
generator for the Mac (the name escapes me at the moment); is there one for
Windows?

In article <1990May4.041614.7089@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>Well, I find that ability to jump between tasks (mainly communication
>and word processing for me) the main reason I went for WinWord. I also
>think that WinWord is a really inutuitive program (I am gung ho for
>icons/graphics objects, mice etc). I've been working on a complicated
>manual with graphics, and other such things, and I can work on it and
>then log into my Univ's machines to get stuff (because of Windows, and
>WinQVT or Telix running in a Window.

With DESQview (or Windows, for that matter), I can get WP running in one
window, Kermit in another, Telix in another, and DOS in one more.  What's
your point? :)

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu