OFF TOPIC funny

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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On Feb 22, 8:53 pm, Trish Brown wrote:

Don't get me wrong: Word's my all-time favourite program! It's so
stylish and intuitive and easy to use.

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

Elizabeth



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"Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)"
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anne wrote:
says...
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.

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.


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).
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I learned on an IBM PC

says...
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).

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

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

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

wrote:
On Feb 22, 8:53 pm, Trish Brown wrote:

Don't get me wrong: Word's my all-time favourite program! It's so
stylish and intuitive and easy to use.

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

Elizabeth



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

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On Feb 23, 10:41*am, Susan Hartman wrote:
wrote:
On Feb 22, 8:53 pm, Trish Brown wrote:

Don't get me wrong: Word's my all-time favourite program! It's so
stylish and intuitive and easy to use.

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

Elizabeth

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.


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
loading it, anyone is welcome to it if they would like it (believe I
can find it)

Do you know which version it is?
Dianne

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"lucretia borgia" wrote
"Trish Brown" wrote
Software spellcheckers are OK as far as it goes, but the one in MSWord
annoys me because it clearly has an American accent! ;-D


Mine is showing English (Australian) along with E (English) E
(Canadian) E (UK) and many, many more.

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

"Karen C in California" wrote in message
...
lucille wrote:

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

Does anyone but me remember Multi-Mate?


I do. We had MultiMate and then switched to WP-DOS.

Do you know, there are things WP-DOS does that WP-Windows does not?


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Everything was DOS until Windows arrived and you had to manipulate it to
do things the way you wanted. Windows is much more automated.

My first IBM PC at work, way back in 1980 and everything you did had to be
saved to floppy. Then if you forgot to label the disks properly and keep a
list of what it contained you were s**t out of luck and had to go through
each one, line by line, to find the missing file.

If the sun was shining it was hard to see the black screen with green
lettering and they bought me a big filter to sit in front of the screen.
Needless to say there were no real graphics.

L

says...
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.

Compared to other versions of Windows, Vista ain't so bad but unfortunately,
Micro$oft has 'fixed' Windows so that older software won't run.

Is there a little secret thingie in a new MAC to allow it to run no longer
current version software?

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