[CyberTaz]

I've not launched any version of WP in *years* :-) Does the current version
still insert a separate instance of the Ruler for every variation in Tab
Stops & Indents throughout the document? What a clutter!

The program definitely had its strong points, and compared to Word Star it
was a godsend. But unfortunately it did not [IMHO] make a very graceful or
functional migration to the world of graphic user interfaces. For those who
learned early on to master its intricacies I can understand the feeling of
"control", but for anyone unpracticed with a command/code driven environment
it was still an absolute nightmare... And slapping a graphic interface on it
just made things worse.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 9/26/09 9:37 AM, in article ,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

There were certain aspects of WordPerfect that I found utterly infuriating
(and a lot of them had to do with those much-lauded "codes"). In the end,
what a Word-trained WP user would miss most are styles (WP has them but
doesn't know how to use them) and line breaks.

What I found infuriating was that you can't conveniently set and reset tab
stops for a selection. You select the text and set the tab stops, and all is
well, but if you want to move one of the tab stops, you can't just click in
a paragraph and do it because that inserts a code at the insertion point,
and the change is effective only from that point forward. And you can't
reselect the initial selection because when you do, you're inside (or
outside, whichever it takes) the "codes," and so what you see on the ruler
is the default tab stops, not the ones you set for the selection. That
frustration alone was enough to drive me to distraction because I tend to
type first, then set the tab stops when I can see where they need to go, but
I may fine-tune them later.

WordPerfect is ideal for legal offices where everything is done in Courier
New and all tabs are half an inch and no one really cares how awful anything
looks (huge gaping spaces between numbers and text in numbered paragraphs,
for example).