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From: lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word
Message-ID: <566@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 08:42:26 EST
Article-I.D.: talcott.566
Posted: Fri Feb 14 08:42:26 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Feb-86 06:09:33 EST
References: <506@imsvax.UUCP> <1270@osu-eddie.UUCP> <3670@utah-cs.UUCP> <129@fritz.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Univ. Chem. Dept.
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Summary: Word vs WP - fact list

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:
> Does WordPerfect do these things?
> 
> Word...
> 
>     ...works with a mouse
WP - Yes, but more important - it works well without one too!
> 
>     ...lets you split the screen into multiple windows
WP - limited to two
> 
>     ...lets you view different parts of the same document
>        simultaneously in the different windows
WP - Yes
> 
>     ...lets you edit different documents simultaneously in the
>        different windows
WP - Yes
> 
>     ...automatically does footnotes (in a different window)
WP - Yes
>
>     ...shows character attributes (such as italics and
>        superscripts and underlining) on the screen
WP - Yes. It does not use the color monitor or EGA as well as Word,
	but other monitors work the same way.  Attributes may be
	represented by user selected colors and intensities.
> 
>     ...allows a dictionary per document (handy for proper nouns
>        which exist only in that document)
WP - No, but see next
> 
>     ...allows a user dictionary in addition to the main
>        dictionary (handy for the proper nouns and abbreviations
>        used by that particular typist)
WP - Yes

Now the reverse...
WP -

	... Macros with nesting

	... Thesaurus on line, wildcard and phonetic speller options

	... Buffer sorting (record, line, etc...)

	... Changable defaults

	... Prefix (arg) key

	... Columnar and math (spreadsheet like) formatting options

	... Directory independent - WP finds ancillary files in a
		directory structure of your own choice

	... Index, table of contents and endnotes as well as footnotes

	... Line drawing

	... Advanced file handling utilities
		 dir of files containing string in text!

	... Outline mode (auto prefix and indent)

	... Print spooler WITH job queue manager

	... Many more options for document translation from other programs

	... Less expensive with very low update prices

	... Superb toll free support
-- 

Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.

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