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).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
I believe this is entirely a matter of personal preferences. Personally I
could never figure out WordPerfect. :-)
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Lola" wrote:
This is another example of how much more user friendly WordPerfect is
than
Word. I use Word at work because I have to, but I use WordPerfect for
Windows
at home because it is much easier to use.
"Patty" wrote:
Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to
the
margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and
I used
this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in
Word.)