Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

--
Sean

I am only familiar with Word 2003. Is "Reveal Codes" the same as or similar
to "Reveal Formatting" in Word 2003?

gap

"Fao, Sean" wrote:

Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

--
Sean

I use Word 2003 and so am only familiar with it. Is "Reveal Codes" the same
as or similiar to "Reveal Formatting" in Word 2003?

gap

"Fao, Sean" wrote:

Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

--
Sean

You'll have a longer wait because Word doesn't use codes. It formats using
styles.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Fao, Sean wrote:
Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

You'll never see this feature in Word because Word and WordPerfect have a
very different object model. For more on this, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm. For Word's best
approximation to Reveal Codes, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Fao, Sean" -WANT-NO-SPAM wrote in message
...
Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

--
Sean

Hi Sean

I know exactly what you mean I've been using MS Word and Corel WordPerfect
for the past 10 12 years and reveal codes is a god send.

There is a 3rd party piece of software that will add the reveal codes
functionality to MS Word and it rocks, simply do a Google search for
CrossEyes.

Hope this helps

Al

"Fao, Sean" wrote:

Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

--
Sean

gap wrote:

"Fao, Sean" wrote:
Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

I am only familiar with Word 2003. Is "Reveal Codes" the same as or
similar to "Reveal Formatting" in Word 2003?

Unfortunately, no; it's not the same. Reveal codes was a lot like "View
Source" on an HTML document in that you could see "tags" (not sure if
that's what Word Perfect called it) which "turned on or off" a
particular style. It would be a great way to correct the styles when
Word tries to be smarter than you.

--
Sean

Graham Mayor wrote:
You'll have a longer wait because Word doesn't use codes. It formats using
styles.


I was under the impression that Microsoft was going to integrate XML
into the entire Office suite, which could have made it possible for a
feature such as Reveal Codes. Maybe XML was implemented, but did
little, if anything, to improve upon formatting versatility.

--
Sean

Hi Guys

Just to clarify WordPerfect also uses styles as well as code, have a look at
the below link it might help:

http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html

Al

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You'll have a longer wait because Word doesn't use codes. It formats using
styles.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Fao, Sean wrote:
Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,

For the original poster, see also these links for greater understanding of
why Word doesn't have Reveal Codes and the Word-equivalents.

How Word differs from WordPerfect
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm

Some Tips and "Gotchas" for those who are new to Word
Especially if migrating from WordPerfect
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm

Is There Life After "Reveal Codes"?
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm

WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect)
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm

DM


On 1/31/05 6:59 AM, "Al" wrote:

Hi Guys

Just to clarify WordPerfect also uses styles as well as code, have a look at
the below link it might help:

http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html

Al

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You'll have a longer wait because Word doesn't use codes. It formats using
styles.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Fao, Sean wrote:
Does Word Perfect, which I guess would now be Novell, own a patent on
"Reveal Codes"? I've been waiting years and years for Microsoft to
implement such a feature into Word and have yet to see it.

Thank you,