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From: jeffmu@microsoft.UUCP (Jeff Muzzy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's Best Word Processor?
Message-ID: <5879@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 17:21:01 GMT
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Reply-To: jeffmu@microsoft.UUCP (Jeff Muzzy)
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In article <1362@lzfme.att.com> 
jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes: >
>WordPerfect is intended for the professional business user (several hours
>every day), not for the novice. If you need the full features (and
>WPs are the best), pay the price and learn it. Similarly, Xywrite
>III Plus is designed for professional writers (mostly magazine) who
>use it several hours every day for writing but not formating, and
>Note Bene is designed for the academic user.

I don't beleive this is true. I doubt people will want to buy 2-3 different
word processors as their learning curve moves from the simple to more
complicated types of documents.

>
>If you need something simmple, buy something simple. Q&A Write comes
>with a nice data base and the package will do 90% of what the others
>will do but is much easier to run. If you don't need the 10%, don't
>pay for it in learning curve. WORD is mouse oriented -- some swear
>by it, but as far as I know, nobody who actually writes anything --
>it's a pain in the ass to have to take your hands off the keyboard
>-- loses your thoughts every time.

Word is not only mouse oriented, It has quick formatting keys for 
all most everything.
Examples: (without style sheets) Alt-I=Italics, Alt-B=Bold, Alt-C=
center paragraph, and on and on. I hardly ever use the mouse expect
for column selection.

[Stuff deleted about learning a few function key combinations]
I don't know, God forbid I should every lose that keyboard template.

Jeff Muzzy