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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's Best Word Processor?
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Date: 26 May 89 12:55:43 GMT
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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.


There is no secret. WordPerfect's learning curve is greater than just
about any wordprocessor I've seen. I've help people out of problems
in Wordperfect that if I'd seen it in any other wordprocessor, I'd
swear it was a bug in the program. But in WordPerfect, misplaced
codes can create havoc. It *is* a full featured wordprocessor, and
very popular, but WordStar used to be very popular too...

(I do all my personal wordprocessing on a Mac in Word--give me WYSIWYG
any time.)


-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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