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From: dmimi@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Miriam Clifford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is WordPerfect 5.0 any good?
Summary: But with a color monitor ---
Message-ID: <6206@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 89 08:58:55 GMT
References: <1213@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1213@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 16016_1127@uwovax.uwo.ca (John Palmer) writes:
>  
> In article <11110@ihlpa.ATT.COM> smann@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Mann) writes:
> >

> >Not a flame, but a request for more opinions on Word Perfect.
> pleased with it, but it's ok. I agreee that the keystrokes don't make much
> sense, but with a little exploration, you can switch them easily in the setup
> program. I don't like not being able to see the various codes inserted for
> bold, italics, and different fonts, so I always work with the "reveal codes"
> screen on. That's fine on a 43-line display, with the codes window taking up 12
If you have a color monitor, you can set WP to show virtually all of the
various codes in different color combinations on the regular screen.  For
example, if you need super script to be visible, you set it to show in a
different color combination from the regular text.  Even on a CGA screen
without color you get a fairly large selection of shades available.  On an
EGA screen, you have much less available but can mark some codes by reverse
video, underline, bold, etc.  Look at your setup, display, colors/fonts/
attributes.  With a 16 color monitor you can spend hours picking and choosing,
if you want to.  I don't know what it does with vga--haven't seen wp on one
yet.