atw: Re: changing to Wordperfect

That's sort of what I thought I said and implied, Naomi (K)

You cannot achieve the same in Word and it is not dynamic as in WP.

Mind you, the first version of WP, under WinDoze NT4 used to be so
horridly unstable as to corrupt its own main executable, so I just archived
the folder with LHA and brought the WP.EXE back to life every time it died.

Argh!

The Amiga / MS-DROSS / VAX versions were almost totally robust.

The first version of WP for WinDoze (WP4WD) was so woeful partly, I
heard, because Microsloth was very uncooperative in giving them
information about their environments and wouldn't tell them (or anyone else)
about all the back door performance optimization cheats that they used for
their own applications.

Plus WP4WDs conversion from and Save As... Word file formats was a total
failure, causing systems to hang at both ends of the process or
gobbledegook to display, where things didn't actually crash.

A total delight.

I wholeheartedly recommended the first version of WP4WD to anyone
with a death wish.

Cheers,

Micky G.


At 12:38 1/3/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>I could just be suffering from Mondayitis a day late (I'm a little slow at
>times :-) ), but isn't the WP Reveal Codes a LOT different to Word's
>comparatively measly offering?  ie. letting you see practically
>everything it's doing to format the text/graphic/table that is displayed?

Michael E. Granat
(QGTWD) (FOTROTWYB!)
T/as Write Ideas
E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
Without Prejudice.
E&OE. 

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