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	I guess I'll speak up here.  I use WordPerfect 4.1 and used 4.0 before,
and I can say with certainty that WordPerfect can:

have two windows on the screen at once (4.0 required switching between screens,
	4.1 can change window sizes to display both simultaneously)
edit in both windows at any time
show the same document in both windows
support all features of WordPerfect in each window, including and not limited
	to footnotes
use a supplemental dictionary. (I must confess that I have never had a reason
	to use multiple dictionaries, one per document, but I do have my own
	dictionary which is a supplemental to the wp dictionary. wp does
	not allow easy modification of its main dictionary, you must put
	things into the supplemental)
the only things not built in that you mentioned are mouse support and
	on-screen character attributes.  wp allows modification of screen 
	color attributes for bold, underline, and bold-underline, and I
	have found that to be sufficient.  color changes are simple, two
	keystrokes to get to the color-changing screen, and there is a 
	portion of the display that shows the colors you currently have
	selected.  I have never seen Word using colors on the EGA, but
	assume it can do so.  Perhaps this might be hard when using hi-res
	graphics for char. attributes, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I have a Mouse Systems Mouse, and have written my own menu system for 
	WordPerfect (part of the mouse support is a little menu compiler).
	This gives me mouse support equivalent to Word, with a couple of
	advantages:  I can call up a menu with any button of the mouse,
	different buttons meaning different basic menus, and I can call
	the menu without having to move to an area of the screen designed
	to be used for a particular menu, re: Microsoft Write or Paint.

Other neat features that Word probably has but may not:

1.  Automatic outlining feature, great for generating quick outlines and
then returning later to fill in with text.

2.  Paragraph numbering can be generated with simple keystrokes, and
inserted paragraph numbers will cause a re-numbering of the entire document
including outlines.

3.  Footnotes can be protected to allow 'keeping'.

4.  Endnotes are supported.

5.  Table of Contents, Lists, and Indexes can be generated automatically,
using text marked in the document.

6.  Numbering, lettering, and formating of footnotes, endnotes, table of 
contents, lists, and indexes can all be customized, with too much variety
to go into here.

7.  Binding width control, wp leaves extra margin measured in inches on
one side for even pages, the opposite side for odd pages, to allow for
production of books.

8.  Block Protect to protect areas of text.

9.  DOS shell, to escape to DOS to run another program, enter the 'exit'
command and you're back in WordPerfect.

10. Directory screen, allows text to be pulled in from files, saved to
files, quick searches for words or phrases through all files in a 
directory, change directory by pointing or typing the name, file deletion,
create directory, delete directory, etc.

11. Password protection / encryption of files, asks for password for file
when trying to reload it again.

12. Adjustable hyphenation zone.

13. Line drawing features, can use graphics characters of any printer
with use of the 'printer' program to modify printer definition tables
if there is no table for a particular printer, or modification of an
existing printer table for justification.

14. Merge from files or keyboard, merge files can call macros, macros
can call merge files, allowing for menuing systems for customization
to a very extensive degree.  Macros can be set to be called when
entering by using environment variables.

15. Modification of current print queue, supports own background queue
which can be stopped to allow change of printers, etc.  Jobs can be
shuffled, re-ordered, cancelled, etc.

16. Over 190 printer definitions come with it.

17. Time and date can be inserted as codes or as text, and format is
very flexible.  Wordcount, widow/orphan protection, flexible underline
control, redline, strikeout, name search, built-in math, on-screen column
definition and display, alignment control for decimals, and mapping of
ctrl and alt keys to macros or to graphics or foreign character sets, ...

18.  And then there's the 80,000 word thesaurus...

19.  And then there's the network version, which I use, and which allows
each user to take advantage of his own printer or network printer, and to
customize his own screen colors and workstation configuration, without
affecting other network users, and allows all users access to their central
dictionary, plus their own individual supplemental dictionary or to a 
central dictionary, ....

Needless to say, I'm relatively pleased with WordPerfect.  The support
has been good, the users are happy, and the network functions well
with all sorts of different pc's on it, but then that's a network's
function...

I am not associated with SSI or any other software vendor, and all
the usual opinion disclaimers go here>>>

John W. Jabusch
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