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From: halff@utah-cs.UUCP (Henry M. Halff)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word
Message-ID: <3682@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 08:14:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 08:14:43 1986
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Summary: Wordperfect does it.

In article <129@fritz.UUCP>, zemon@fritz.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
> The real point of comparison is not what both program do but
> what one does that the other does not.  Here is a little list to
> start things off, things that Microsoft Word does that I don't
> think WordPerfect does:
> 
> Word...
>     ...works with a mouse
WordPerfect does not support a mouse--a drawback.
>     ...lets you split the screen into multiple windows
Wordperfect supports 2 windows.
>     ...lets you view different parts of the same document
>        simultaneously in the different windows
I don't think so (but I'm not sure).
>     ...lets you edit different documents simultaneously in the
>        different windows
Yup
>     ...automatically does footnotes (in a different window)
Yes--footnotes are embedded in the file at the place of their 
mention.  They're easier to edit that way.
>     ...shows character attributes (such as italics and
>        superscripts and underlining) on the screen
Subscripts, superscripts, font and pitch changes are not shown,
but underling and boldface are.
>     ...allows a dictionary per document (handy for proper nouns
>        which exist only in that document)
No.
>     ...allows a user dictionary in addition to the main
>        dictionary (handy for the proper nouns and abbreviations
>        used by that particular typist)
Yes
> 
> Does WordPerfect do these things?

Does Word:
Have a thesaurus?
Keep page boundary indicators current?
Handle columns? In a WYSIWYG fashion?
Have math capabilities?
Have interactive macros?
Have document conversion facilities for DCF, DIF, Wordstar?
Have a merge facility?
Have automatic table of contents & indexing facilities?
Have redline and strikeout capabilities?
Online reference?
Escape to DOS?



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Henry M. Halff                                       Halff Resources, Inc.
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