7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
7:20 a.m.
On 7 December 2011 14:04, Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 December 2011 19:09, Tom <a50mhzham at
gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
You know that you can download a free trial of WordPerfect Office for Windows?
http://apps.corel.com/lp/wpo/downloads.html
You could see if that will do the job.
I used it for a while - during my 2008 experimental couple of months
of using Vista! - and it is actually a rather nice, fast, smooth
Windows wordprocessor these days. I liked it. But OpenOffice does what
I need & I can't justify the expenditure.
MS Word does not embed control codes before and after formatting, in
the manner of WordPerfect. Formatting information is at the end of the
paragraph, which is why deleting the final carriage return of a
paragraph can result in all its formatting changing. There are no
embedded codes to show, that's why it doesn't do "show codes".
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WordPerfect is still out there; believe it or not my company still uses it
as its primary word processing program. Not everyone has drunk the microsoft
kool-aid. We're moving towards OpenOffice; all the IT types use that but
still have to support WP. Recent versions of WordPerfect can export
("SaveAs") a variety of formats, including RTF which should be readable by
any given word processing program.
We still use WP 3.5 on PPC (which is freely available). ?We are loath
to move to recent Macs as we would lose it or purchase Windoze
versions). ?The "show-codes" feature has saved us a fair amount of
grief over the years when editing large documents. ?Why do the others
not have it? ?(Is it an IPR issue?)