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lucille wrote:

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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


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.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
http://claremont.island-blogging.co.uk

lucille wrote:


I'm adding to my own message and I know that's a no-no, but sue me---

Are you aware that you can add words to spell check and they will exist
in the dictionary from then on? When it questions a word like dingo,
it will ask you if you want to add it to the dictionary. Just say yes.



Yeah, but it'd feel a lot homier if Word knew my lingo already without
having to be coached by me. I do love your idea of becoming a
jillionaire by writing the Oz version of the spellchecker though. Just
the pedantic sort of job I love! ;-

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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

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.

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Here's an interesting document. It's all about a version of MS Word for
Northeners - that's English Northerners of course.
http://www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont/wordfornortherners.doc
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
http://claremont.island-blogging.co.uk

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

I'd rather fight than switch ... still using WP and even bought not too old
version my ownself poor grammar but who cares. 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.
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another anne, add ingers to reply

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.

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another anne, add ingers to reply

On Feb 23, 7:35*am, anne wrote:
says...

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

I'd rather fight than switch ... still using WP and even bought not too old
version my ownself poor grammar but who cares. 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.
--
another anne, add ingers to reply

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)

"Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)"
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lucille wrote:

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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


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.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
http://claremont.island-blogging.co.uk


that's the one!!!

"anne" wrote in message
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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.

--
another anne, add ingers to reply

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

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).
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
http://claremont.island-blogging.co.uk