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Re: WordPerfect (YES!)

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From: Stefano P. Pagiola
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:17
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Ivan Vesely writes
> Come on, somebody out there besides me must like WordPerfect?


Well, I like it for all its features, the same reason that I liked  
the PC version.  And of course, its just about the standard so having  
the file-compatibility is great.
Having said that, many things are really crummy (its handling of tabs  
has 'pride' of place here, IMHO) and some things are very annoying  
(there is no way to save graphics box defaults, eg, and the styles  
menu is very badly organized).  Also it slows down tremendously as  
soon as you have a significant number of font/formatting changes.

The bottom line is that yes, it does what I need it to do, and other  
available programs don't.  So I keep using it.  But I doubt WP will  
survive very long if their strategy remains one of 'people have  
nowhere else to go, so it doesn't matter what we ship.'
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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@leland.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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