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Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35607747

Kids today and their fancy Office 365.

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retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

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WordPerfect's "Reveal Codes" mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It's like viewing the HTML of a web page.

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- Word has that. It is a paragraph mark button.
  
  I use it all the time.
  
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  I don't have a copy of Word handy, but I don't think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.
  
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Is there anything ms word can do that word perfect couldn't do back then? Ms word is so clunky

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- Well yes, there are a lot more features in MS Word >!(that nobody actually needs and asked for)!<.
  
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My school had WordPerfect on every computer in like, 2013. I had to install AbiWord Portable on a USB disk just so I could work on .doc files without the formatting being royally fucked up.

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WP 5.1 on DOS for me. Kids these days and their fancy WYSIWYG.

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- Ironically, WP for Macintosh was probably the best WYSIWYG word processor in existence, especially since the great Word 5.1->6.0 regression.
  
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I learned using AppleWorks and then ClarisWorks.

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Still using it today and it's great.

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I wrote documentation at Ford for a while and when we switched from WordPerfect to Word I got a waver for 2 years to continue using WordPerfect because it was so much more efficient because of the ability to see all formatting. When they forced me to Word I quit writing documents for the most part

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Wasn't that at the same time works was out?

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See the house that Corel built, and weep ['cause it throws taste right out of the window]

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