Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!pro-nbs.cts.com!lhaider From: lhaider@pro-nbs.cts.com (Laer Haider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Re^2: Term Progs Message-ID: <3305.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> Date: 24 May 91 04:40:10 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 54 In-Reply-To: message from WAXMONRW@SNYBUFVA.BITNET [stuff clipped] >I know better than this but I cannot resist! I have not used WordPerfect >for the GS but I do use WordPerfect 5.1 (the current msdos version). It >is a powerful wordprocessor but I have never heard it described as >"the easiest, powerful word process I have seen in a while", unless >of course, you have not seen many wordprocessors! It has been my >experience that "WordPerfect" and "ease of use" are a contradiction >in terms! > >MHO! > >Ray Waxmonsky (waxmonrw@snybufva) Wait 'til you see WordPerfect for Windows. All I can say is... OOoooh! It still may not be the easiest WP there is, but you can't get much easier for basic word processing. And if you need POWER, it's there. You have to dig a little deeper into the program to get to it though. As far as WordPerfect V5.1 is concerned, it isn't any harder to use than AppleWorks V3.0 in order to do equivalent tasks. Again, advanced features may send you looking through the manual; though you can usually find whatever help you need in the online help system. Some features I like MUCH better than AppleWorks V3.0; like a menu bar and pull down menus (which can be set up to be permanently displayed). Word processing is still a sore point in the Apple II environment to me. There is still nothing available that provides the advanced word processing features I need to do my work. I have to rely on WordPerfect for MS-DOS, though it crawls through some things on my PCTransporter. MicroSoft-Word is another power program I like too, but I don't need to buy two programs for one task (and can't afford it either). I also prefer WordPerfect (MS-DOS version) because it can directly drive my ImageWriter II, and even CONVERT THE IBM CHARACTER SET to print on it (printed as graphics). It also does and outstanding job with mixing graphics with straight IWII text. I could go on for pages about the features WordPerfect offers, but I'll not bore you any further. If there is, or will be, anything close made for the Apple II(e,c,gs), I'll probably buy it. For now I can't think of anything better. / _______________________________________________ \ / / ProLine: pro-nbs!lhaider \\\' , / // INET: lhaider@pro-nbs.cts.com \\\//, _/ //, UUCP: crash!pro-nbs!lhaider \_-//' / //<, ARPA: crash!pro-nbs!lhaider@nosc.mil \ /// > \\\`__/_ /,)-^>>\` , \\\ The opinions express here are just opinions. (/ \\ /\\\ Don't have a cow man! // _//\\\\ ----------------------------------------------- ((` ((