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« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2001, 03:01:08 pm » |
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I use BOTH! Our office predominantly uses Corel Wordperfect but I also have to use Microsoft Word for our QuickBooks reports, so I have been deemed the Word contact when our clients or consultants send us email documents in Word.
Because SOOO many of our clients and consultants use Word, we have discussed switching, but you know how people LOVE change! hehehe
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adminwithatude
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« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2001, 10:27:08 am » |
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I also had a hard time giving up WordPerfect...loved the reveal codes as well. Does anyone click on the "paragraph" icon when using Word? I do, its similar to the reveal codes, and really helps with formatting.
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daisylee
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« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2001, 11:25:36 am » |
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When I first learned, I was taught on WordPerfect...it was a blessing from heaven above, because I had only used a typewriter before for letters. Then when I started here, we didn't have PC's yet, and had to use a Unix based word processing system, called Uniplex. A manager here called it "The Stone Axe of Word Processing"...When we moved to PC's, it was with Word and all Windows based applications. Love it, missed reveal codes, but learned to function well with it. And it definately beat the heck out of our previous system!
Now we've been merged with another major company, and their standard is Lotus. (There are very specific reasons for this.) So now, here I am again, working with the similar, yet different enough to be confusing!
Needless to say, I'm somewhat proficient in all, excel in none!
Daisylee
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ohiosec
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« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2001, 11:31:48 am » |
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I taught myself Word Perfect when it first came out and loved it and used it for years. When I started my present job about 4 years ago I had to adjust to Word. It was less of an adjustment than I thought it would be. Now I'm very comfortable with it. We have Word Perfect and Word at home, but I never use Word Perfect anymore. Never thought I'd be saying that!
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officeduchess
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I am a die-hard WordPerfect user (as in don't touch this machine, IT, without losing parts of your body that you hold dear!); however, since I got Windows 2000, my WordPerfect 2000 just won't work right! AAAAARRRGGHH!!! So, now I am stuck using Word and I hate it, I hate it!!! (stomping my feet and throwing a hissy fit!) ;-) I am adjusting because I have never met a program that I didn't want to learn, but WordPerfect is sooo much more user friendly than Word. I can't help but wonder if Microsoft designed Windows 2000 in some way to keep me out of my WordPerfect - beginning to see a conspiracy here. I just recently got an e-mail from Amazon.com though that says WordPerfect 2002 (made for Windows 2000) is now available. I think I'll be trying it. Wish me luck!
OfficeDuchess (reveal codes, how I love thee!) in VA
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I thought our company was the only one who used Wang! When I came here to work 12 years ago, it was my first experience in word processing (besides a course I took in something, maybe IBM Displaywrite???) and the Olympia Memory typewriters with the little screens. At first I thought it was great, but then I had to learn to be the back-up Wang Administrator....what a pain! I was way too busy to have to take the time to boot and re-boot that stupid system! And it was down more than it was up!
We converted to Microsoft Word about 6-7 years ago, and I love it! I work in it from home, too.
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mathwhizchick
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I learned on Wordperfect (before it was part of the Corel package). I've used the Lotus Smartsuite working for IBM, and now I'm on MS office.
Personally, I think Lotus notes is easier to use than MS Outlook, but they are basically all tools, like pencil and paper. Besides, when you always get a chance to learn something new, you keep your mind active and agile (or so they say...)
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Katie G
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My brain must work differently than most people because WordPerfect just baffles me while it seems like I have an instinct for Word. (I like the mail merge in Word. Takes you through step by step. I couldn't screw it up if I tried.)
The best was when everybody was screaming when Windows first appeared on the scene. Being a teacher, I had used a Macintosh, so Windows was alsomt the same basic concept. I could not understand what everybody was yelling about.
Meanwhile, hubby is still home using (have mercy!) 5.1. Why not just handwrite it?
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bethalize
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In defence of Word 5.1: it's a great little word processor that is so fast because its so small.
Word 2000 may do lots of things (crash, mostly, buy hey!) but I totally support the use of 5.1 for pure word processing. I still have it on my baby mac AND it carries formatting through into Quark Xpress.
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Beth, lemme tell you about 5.1, I wish I had that much! At my last job, before we had moved to our new office and everyone got a computer on their desk, I was using a community computer that I hated. It was a Swan (?) 386 DX and it was DOS! I had Word 5.0 and Lotus 123 in DOS. Yep, that damn F-code card to scotch tape to the keyboard. *shudders* I miss Lotus Notes. What was so great about it was the databases you could create and post messages to the database as an email message. It was superior to anything I've seen.
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execsec
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DonnaP, I too used Wordstar for many years (10) then had to move to Wordperfect (grudgingly). I loved it and used it for quite a few years - loved the reveal codes. THEN, I had to move to Word (grudgingly again, of course). I've used Word now for about 6 years and have grown to love it however I still can't get Word to do some of the things I could do in Wordperfect.
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donnap99
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ExecSec - Are you sure you're not me?? Those timelines are EXACTLY the same as mine!
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execsec
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Donnap, do you remember the CPT word processing machine? It used cassette tapes with a selectric typewriter. I have also used an Autotypist before. I think it was a word processor from the 40's (but I used it in the early 70's). It punched holes on a roll of paper like a player piano, then played back the repetitive letters on a selectric typewriter. The keyboard and space bar on the machine were about 3 feet wide!
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ssc1208
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OK, first off, I'm not sure if this is exactly what everyone wants, because I haven't used Word Perfect, much. I'm also not sure if this will work with editions of Word earlier than 97, but here goes...
Hold down the SHIFT key and depress the F1 key. This will change your cursor into an arrow with a "?" next to it. (You can also go to Help -> What's This?) Then click on any text within Word, and it will give you the formatting of the text.
Hope this helps.
Sabrina
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