RE: Waxing nostalgic and way off topic (was: Another mailing list idea)

["ekempter" <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MS Word has reveal codes.  Click Tools/Options and make check what you want
to see.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Damato
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:10 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Waxing nostalgic and way off topic (was: Another mailing
list idea)


The death of WordPerfect can be attributed to two things:

1)  Microsoft's dubious practice of holding back useful Windows development
information from competitive software vendors.  It was never proven, but
both WordPerfect and Lotus 123 claim to have been unable to develop using
the same hooks that Microsoft had for Word and Excel.

2)  Bloatware.  Spreadsheets and Word Processors were all but perfected
years ago.  There's been no reason to come up with major releases to these
products.  The second or third WordPerfect for Windows release was so fat
and slow that it was unbearable to run.  The average user didn't need a
desktop publishing application -- they just needed to type reports and
memos.

Reveal codes was a real "programmer's feature".  If you couldn't figure out
why the document was layed out wrong you just looked at the codes that were
behind the formatting.  At least once a week I find a reason to wish it was
in @#$%! Word.

If you miss WordPerfect's blue screen don't worry.  Windows has one of its
own.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Galgano [mailto:cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:47 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Another mailing list idea


Reveal codes was cool and I did miss it when I went to Word. But I had
actually forgotten about it now until you mentioned it.   But Wordperfect
messed up the first Windows version so bad.  Sometimes I still crave my only
blank blue screen of WP 5.1.  That software got me through grad school.
cjg


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