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From: wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's Best Word Processor?
Message-ID: <1475@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 15:21:13 GMT
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Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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> I understand that WordPerfect is fully featured and widely used, but
> does that make it the BEST?  I must be missing something.  I have seen
> people fighting with WP's less than intuitive user interface time and
> time again.  Excuse me for this flame, but that interface is TERRIBLE.
> 
> Please, someone out there tell me that there is some magic secret
> (other than key macros) that can make WP acceptable to beginning
> users.

You seem to be contradicting yourself.  You asked for the best which
may not be the easiest to use for a beginner.  If you want the easiest
for a beginner why don't you try using MacWrite on the Macintosh.  But
I would not say that is the best.  When you are looking for a good
package you need to take many things into account.  First is ease of
use.  I find it easy to use...  Second is the amount of features and
the power of the package.  Other that MS Word I would say that Word-
Perfect is one of the most powerful and feature laden packages.
MS Word is also very powerful and is also not the easiest to learn
package.  But does that make it bad?  No!

So, in essense, make up your mind.  Do you want a wimpy package or 
one that will do all your work down the road?  Pick a good one like
MS Word or WordPerfect.

-- 
Bill Wilson                          (Bitnet: ucc2wew@nauvm)
Northern AZ Univ
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
{Let sleeping dragons lie......}