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From: lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word
Message-ID: <569@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 08:47:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 08:47:28 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 06:07:02 EST
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Organization: Harvard Univ. Chem. Dept.
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Keywords: Microsoft Word SSI WordPerfect comparison features
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In article <328@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>, csaron@ucbopal.BERKELEY.EDU (Aron Roberts) writes:
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> In article <3682@utah-cs.UUCP> halff@utah-cs.UUCP (Henry M. Halff) writes:
> >
> >Keep page boundary indicators current?
>   No, and one of the most frustrating features of Word for
>   users who are used to WordStar, WordPerfect, etc.  Word
>   uses a gallery format, which allows it to rapidly load
>   and edit LARGE files (I've worked with a 2MB Word file on

WordPerfect does not choke on big files either, but does keep page
breaks.  Older versions did not have the algorithm quite right
and messed up in the middle, but 4.x appears to have solved the
problem.

I recommend WordPerfect to everyone except those who must turn out
repetitive business correspondence. Style sheets are of particular
value to this audience.

BTW... someone mentioned the "ease" with which printer defs may be
built in Word. Well... I wanted to fix a bug in the Apple laser
driver they provide. The PRD conversion program choked on the thing
(allocated insuff memory) and passed away quietly. This may be a
feature if uSoft does not want people to nose about their laser
drivers. If so, I consider it yet another example of COPY PROTECTION,
the reason I tried WordPerfect in the first place. To be fair,
it may 'just' be a bug. If they had a TOLL FREE support number like
SSI I would know for sure...
-- 

Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.

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