Ok, my new computer has WordPerfect, not Word. What's the difference?
I'm used to Word, have never used WP and it scares me.
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Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:59:25 pm PST #1222 of 10003
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Katie M - Jan 15, 2005 3:03:23 pm PST #1223 of 10003
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Well, for my purposes not much--it has an irritating habit of trying to turn things I paste into it into numbered lists, and it took a while for me to track down the word count feature. I don't do anything complex with it, though. (You do have to remember to save in an appropriate format if you're going to want to read a file with Word on another computer, obviously.)
DCJensen - Jan 15, 2005 3:05:59 pm PST #1224 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
WordPerfect was/is the nemisis of Word.
Imagine Mac vs PC only argued on a multiplatform level.
There is still fallout.
Here's one history: [link]
Wordperfect Wiki: [link]
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 3:09:10 pm PST #1225 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have that same problem, Kristen. I haven't worked with it a lot yet. I have Windows XP on this machine, and I couldn't cough up the extra $250 for the Office Suite so I had to go with WP. It's still weird to me.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2005 5:17:31 pm PST #1226 of 10003
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WordPerfect is my bitch. I run version 7, which is, I believe, pretty old. What version of WP do you have? You might find that a lot of the shortcuts and commands are the same as Office.
Sue - Jan 16, 2005 9:12:48 am PST #1227 of 10003
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I work with both WP and Word, most of the basic features are similar, but the nifty little shortcuts for things are way different. I always get frustrated switching back and forth, because they are simiar enough that I'll be trying to do something in Word the way it works in WP, and it will take me a while to figure out why it's not working.
The thing that makes me the craziest with work is that when you hit the print icon, it prints one copy of the document to your default settings, where in WP, the print icon brings up an print options menu.
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2005 9:27:14 am PST #1228 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The thing that makes me the craziest with work is that when you hit the print icon, it prints one copy of the document to your default settings, where in WP, the print icon brings up an print options menu.
I've gotten into the hapit of using Ctrl-P to print from MS Office - that way I get the print dialog box instead. Does WP work the same way?
Completely unrelated - how do you get the 'home' and 'end' keys to do anything on a Mac? (Yes, I'm using a Mac keyboard.)
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:05:46 am PST #1229 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Completely unrelated - how do you get the 'home' and 'end' keys to do anything on a Mac? (Yes, I'm using a Mac keyboard.)
They work for me.
In Word? I will check. Also, what OS are you in?
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2005 10:17:54 am PST #1230 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OS X 10.3. Also, I couldn't get them to work on 10.2 on my iBook. On my 10.3 Cube I'm using an Apple wireless keyboard.
Do those keys have application-specific functionality? I don't have Word on either computer.
Huh. The keys work in Open Office. But it annoys me that they don't work in an HTML text box in Mozilla/Firefox.
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:27:56 am PST #1231 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Perhaps they need the numlock... heh.
Weird that they wouldn't work. The Appearance pane of the System Preferences utility enables you to modify the behavior of window scrolling. You might want to start there.
Do those keys have application-specific functionality?
Word sometimes has special remapping.