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Oh my! And here I am, still pining for Word Perfect 12 years after I was forced to switch.

Elizabeth

That's because Word Perfect was a much better program.

Does anyone but me remember Multi-Mate?

Multi-Mate! All I remember is that in 1986 or thereabouts it came on an incredible number (over 40?) of 3.5 inch floppy disks.

Aw, geez! I'm so sorry you've been deprived of WP. I know plenty of people who 'speak' WP as their native language and still resent being forced onto Word. I'm sure I'd feel very much as you do if I'd been forced the other way.

I'd rather fight than switch ... still using WP and even bought not too old version my ownself . I only fire up Word that came with no longer owned PC when I absolutely have to. Probably be turning the air around me blue if I were working and had to use Word.

Are you sure it wasn't on the 5 1/4 disks? I'm pretty sure the littler not so floppy ones came around a bit later.

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All the computers at work had Word and the day that I lost 72 footnotes trying to convert an article from WordPerfect to Word in order to use the good printer, I gave up and switched. It just wasn't worth the headache when all the technology I needed was attached to MS monopolized computers.

Elizabeth (these days I'd probably print it at home, but back then it just wasn't an option)

that's the one!!!

You're right. They were the 5 1/4" disks and they really were floppy.

You could be right, I'm not sure when we upgraded from 5.25 to 3.5 inch disks. I'm sure that it was about a year after we upgraded from tape to

5.25 inch disks (Commodore Pet). It was around 1987 that we got our first IBM PC (which ran at an incredible 8 MHz).

One day in a pensive mood my eye fell upon the usb drive lying on the desk and it occurred to me that at 2GB that little cigarette-sized thing had more ooomph than the whole big Commodore had !

I use Word2000 only because - on some occasions - I'm forced to have it. Otherwise, I use WordPerfect which is 200 times better than Word. I hate Word. My husband, at work, is forced to use Word2003. Not much different than our earlier home version. He hates it.

There's nothing "stylish" about Word. It's clunky, non-intuitive, and a pain to use.

Dianne - rant mode

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I learned on an IBM PC

I've got a box full of zip drive 'cartridges' -- there's too much personal stuff on them to just chuck 'em in the trash

Amen to that!!! I wonder if people who didn't use the far superior WP first have as much trouble getting stuff done as us WP fans.

Note to Sheena and other Canadians -- Corel did man and womankind a service when they rescued WP; wish I could say they did equally well with PaintShop Pro.

Little trivia -- when the original developers of WP wanted to sell, allegedly the Mormon Church in Utah pressured a company whose name escapes me but begins with an N to buy it and keep it 'local'

Anne who used to moderate WP group on BBS network in pre-Internet days

They ruined PSP but if you have up to number 8, you have Jasc originals, hang on to them. I don't want something as large as Adobe PS and have always loved PSP.

I have a WP disk that came with my Dell Laptop but I didn't bother loading it, anyone is welcome to it if they would like it (believe I can find it)

And here I am, still editing in Word Perfect, even if it means copying and pasting from Word into WP, then DH eventually puts them back again because InDesign can't read WP files. I just don't like Word. At all.

sue

That's what I did until the day I lost all those footnotes. Luckily, I had another copy of the document on my home computer, but it's just not worth the headache I had to go through to get the document printed and turned in to the editors.

Elizabeth

lucretia borgia wrote: > I have a WP disk that came with my Dell Laptop but I didn't bother

Do you know which version it is? Dianne

"lucretia borgia" wrote >>

My spellchecker speaks Canadian English now, although I had the devil's own time getting it to stay as the default setting for a while--it kept wanting to revert to American. I get far fewer underlines now that it doesn't think it lives south of 49.

Dawne