cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35607747
Kids today and their fancy Office 365.
See the other cool community over at !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35607747
Kids today and their fancy Office 365.
See the other cool community over at !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
13 Comments
gramie@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
WordPerfect's "Reveal Codes" mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It's like viewing the HTML of a web page.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Word has that. It is a paragraph mark button.
I use it all the time.
gramie@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
I don't have a copy of Word handy, but I don't think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.
psvrh@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Correct. Word's was page and whitespace only, Wordperfect was nearer to markup, like HTML/XML, you could see bold, italic, font size changes, etc.
kurikai@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Is there anything ms word can do that word perfect couldn't do back then? Ms word is so clunky
Schorsch@feddit.org · 2 pts · 2y
Well yes, there are a lot more features in MS Word >!(that nobody actually needs and asked for)!<.
rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com · 5 pts · 2y
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
WP 5.1 on DOS for me. Kids these days and their fancy WYSIWYG.
psvrh@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Ironically, WP for Macintosh was probably the best WYSIWYG word processor in existence, especially since the great Word 5.1->6.0 regression.
graeghos_714@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I wrote documentation at Ford for a while and when we switched from WordPerfect to Word I got a waver for 2 years to continue using WordPerfect because it was so much more efficient because of the ability to see all formatting. When they forced me to Word I quit writing documents for the most part
luca@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y
Still using it today and it's great.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I learned using AppleWorks and then ClarisWorks.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
See the house that Corel built, and weep ['cause it throws taste right out of the window]
downpunxx@fedia.io · 0 pts · 2y
"we got word at home"