Your reply assumes that WordPerfect will still be around in ten years.
Perhaps it will. I have no doubt that Word will be. FWIW, I have had no
problem opening Word 2.0 files in Word 2003.

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"Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message
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minnie shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

I have a new computer. I am a homemaker. I like to surf the web and
I am also playing with the idea of selling things on E-Bay. My
husband has a bussiness and sometimes I write letters for him. My
question is, what are the pros and cons of WORDPERFECT verses
MICROSOFT WORD. I have wordperfect here, however if I can benefit
from buying microsoft word, I will.Is microsoft word an easier
program?

You ask this question in a Word newsgroup... what do you expect?
Neither is "better". The most important question you have to ask
yourself is, 10 years from now, will you still be able to open the
documents you made today?
With current WP today, there is not much problem opening WP documents
of 10 years ago.
With current Word however... Microsoft has the nasty habit of changing
the document format every few verions. Conversion tools are provided,
but they are not perfect, and it is all extra work.

As an alternative you could use software that does not use a
proprietary document format, but uses "Open Standards" (notice the
capitals!). Open Standards are guaranteed to work in the near and far
future because they are, uhmmm... Open Standards of course!
Try http://www.openoffice.org to know what I mean. It is free (as in
beer) and Free (as in Speech).

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