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From: leif@ambush.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's Best Word Processor?
Summary: You can't get it all!
Message-ID: <1094@ambush.dk>
Date: 12 May 89 10:33:48 GMT
References: <1989May10.221510.20511@utpsych.toronto.edu>
Organization: AmbraSoft, Holte, Denmark
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Do I need to say more (than the summary)? I use WordPerfect 5 (I'm
thinking of moving back to 4.2 because of _ALL_ the bugs but I still
want to use WordPerfect) - why?

In article <1989May10.221510.20511@utpsych.toronto.edu>, lewan@utpsych.toronto.edu (Stephan Lewandowsky) writes:
>           o  Multiple Windows
You get two - OK - I would like to have more and simutaneous update
>           o  Multiple files, cut & paste between files
No problem - but still only two files
>           o  Multiple Undo
I know it's bad - Brief's undo would be _PERFECT_!!!
>           o  LIGHTNING FAST!
It is fast
>           o  VGA support (>25 lines if desired)
No problem (as far as I know)
>           o  Small (<1MB)
Hey hey - first your wan't it to be perfect and then ...!!!
>           o  Programmable macros
Got it!
>           o  Intelligent search & replace
It could be much better
>           o  Key redefinition (to give me those ^Fs and ^As :-)
No problem
>           o  On-line spellchecker and synonym finder or dictionary
The best you can ever get and I mean it!
>           o  Some arithmetic
Total, subtotal, ...
>           o  Escape to DOS shell
Ctrl+F1
>           o  *GOOD* outlining capabilities
Like Word's? (ups!)
>           o  File conversion utilities (import ASCII, WordStar, etc.)
Your got it- but does it work?
>           o  Footnote/bibliography management
No problem in 5.0
>           o  *GOOD* WYSIWYG (no ^PS^PB aberrations)
Not while you are writing, you have to press 3 keys.
>           o  Dynamic reformatting of paragraphs (no ^B^QP cludges)
Default!
>           o  Postscript support (HP LaserJet goes without saying...)
Works like a dream!
            o  Context sensitive help
You can't use the help key when you are in a menu
            o  Menu driven _AND_ functionkeys
You must use a functionkey to get into the first menulevel
            o  _BUG FREE_
WordPerfect 5.0 _ISN'T_!!! (More informations to come on a news server
in your galaxy)

  Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Roejelskaer 15, DK-2840 Holte, Denmark
 UUCP: leif@ambra.dk, phone: +45 42424 111, touch phone: +45 42422 817+313

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