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From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard)
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.0 & 5.1 VS Microsoft Word
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Date: 7 May 90 13:54:28 GMT
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In article <1990May3.231155.18625@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> eric@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
* Friendly, opposing viewpoint:  I am currently using both WordPerfect 5.0
* and WinWord on separate, identical computers.  There are some differences
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I'm in a similar situation, except I'm using Word 5.0
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* which should be noted:
* 
* WinWord has a problem with importing graphics (even from other Microsoft
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Word 5.0 also has some problems (which the MS folk _absolutely_ refuse to
acknowledge.)  But sinec my application is limited (mostly) to using
Postscript drawing files, I've worked up a Word macro to do the fixup I need.
Since doing the fix (over a year ago,) It works just fine.
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* products) -- see recent appends for more information.  WP 5.0, on the 
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Interrogative "recent appends."  What do you mean?
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* other hand, comes not only with a screen cap util which manufactures
* disk files it can import, it also has a format converter which will
* import *many* other formats -- even MS formats ;) -- into .WPG
* (WordPerfect Graphics format).
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But I find it _very_ cumbersome to use.
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* The nifty WYSIWYG interface that WinWord boasts means processing
* overhead -- I'm a fast worker and I find myself being slowed down
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How much WYSIWYG do you have turned on?  Or is that a non-question with
WFW?  With my Word 5.0, The WYSIWYGness is selectable--I don't need
to turn it on until I'm ready to very final version of my document.
And I find Word much more predictable in what it will do with certain
things in the document, so I actually need WYSIWYG less often than with
WordPerfect.
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* when I use WinWord.  Windows is continuously paging memory from the
* hard disk, which only exacerbates the condition.  WP, OTOH, fairly
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Is your system just a little bit short on memory?  If you want the
full WYSIWYG, you've got to allow room for it to be done.
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* zips along with me.
* 
* I have a 1.2M disk with a functional WP environment (if you don't
* need the speller or thesaurus, it's really not very big).  I carry
* it around campus and use it on any machine I encounter.  This is
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Word 5 could live in the same environment--don't forget that WFW _does_
effectively carry full WIN around with it.
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* *very* handy for me -- your actual mileage may vary.  
* 
* When printing from WinWord, you better not be in a hurry.  You can
* still work at your console while the print queue is cranking, but
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Are you using WIN printdrivers?  They _are_ notoriously slow.  Try
running WPerf under windows with output via the spooler and it will
be just as slow.
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* doing so creates a visible slowdown in printing (even worse than 
* normal).  WP -- no sweat.  You initiate the print sequence, and 
* drop back into the editor.  Almost transparent.
* 
* Disclaimer: I don't hate WinWord, in fact I'm rapidly getting used
* to it.  If you have a fast system and a *really* fast hard disk,
* the GUI is a nice way to go.  (There, I damned it with faint
* praise....heheheheheh) ;)
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And I'm getting accustomed to Wperf, but still _hate_ the functionkey
interface and the way the tabular menus work.
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regardz,
Ken