Microsoft Word vs. WordPerfect

[Azndude2190]

I've been using Microsoft Word 2002 for 4 years now...but WordPerfect seems to offer more options and has alot of neat features...should I switch over?It came as a OEM package with my Dell Laptop.Any lone time WordPerfect users?Any other word processors you would recommend trying?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Openoffice.

 

[StevenYoo]

MS Word b/c it's the industry standard

 

[Schadenfroh]

I prefer word, im used to it.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Word.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I prefer word, im used to it.

same here

 

[Xylitol]

Word
Add a poll?

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Word. But OpenOffice is fine for student needs.

 

[Splork]

Werd. Fo' shitz yo!

-sp

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Open Office is wack.

MS Word 2003 FTW

 

[Azndude2190]

So no one likes or uses MP?

 

[episodic]

Lotus Wordpro 9.8. . .

Truely the last of the best ever wordprocessor. . .

RIP - i'll use ya as long as you run

 

[secretanchitman]

MS word.

but i want to try openoffice to see if its any good.

 

[Armitage]

Back in the day, WordPerfect beat Word hands down. Word was a lousy POS, and I had to use both extensively.

But then, MS started hitting it's stride, and Word was bundled with everything and became the standard despite blowing chunks from here to eternity.

Now I only use Linux - OO is ok, but damn slow. Abiword is a nicer word processor in my opinion.

 

[Rottie]

I use both WordPerfect Office 12 on my laptop and MS Office 2003 on my PC
I get used with Word.

 

[Thump553]

Wordperfect is a far superior program for most users, and still is big in the legal field. But MS Word has pretty much taken over the world due to it's widespread availability/MS exercising its monopoly power (take your choice).

The design philosophy of the two programs are completely different. Wordperfect was designed to be a tool used by typists, and those who trained as such. Word is more of a print setting program, more useful to someone laying out a newspaper, etc.

My experience with Word is basically that I don't use (or want) 90%+ of it's "features" and I have spent an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to simple typing features with it.

PS-in the poll, does MP stand for Word Perfect?

 

[shortylickens]

They both work well and use the same formats, but it seems that people prefer to pirate Microsoft products, so thats why Office is more common.
For the money Open Office is the best deal. It will work well enough for most home users and even some professionals.

 

[God On Alcohol]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I prefer word, im used to it.

same here

FTW

 

[cubby1223]

I haven't had much need to use a word processor in a long time so I haven't checked out the newer Word Perfect programs, I've just got Word installed from MS Office.

I don't know if it's still like this, Word Perfect had always let you view the actual programming that went into the document, so you could go in and correct any formatting faults, unlike Word which sometimes you had no choice but to start anew.

I hate Word, though, so I'd definately vote for Word Perfect. The auto-formatting is just a pain to work around when needed, and an even bigger pain trying to find where all those options are set.

 

[klnyc]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
MS Word b/c it's the industry standard

Word that...haha no punt intened here okay?
Word yo, I been using Word since MS Office debuted in 1985.
Wordperfect are good for paralegal stuff. My legal dpt are still using few WP on some old WP *.wpd format.

M$ Werd you dig??

 

[JonnyBlaze]

I havnt used wordperfect sice it ran off a floppy disk from dos.

I would still go with Word tho.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Armitage
Back in the day, WordPerfect beat Word hands down. Word was a lousy POS, and I had to use both extensively.

But then, MS started hitting it's stride, and Word was bundled with everything and became the standard despite blowing chunks from here to eternity.

Now I only use Linux - OO is ok, but damn slow. Abiword is a nicer word processor in my opinion.

So you liked hitting Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F11 (per your paper template taped to your keyboard) to insert some ugly jibberish into your document then hope it turned out ok for print? I personally liked hitting a bullet point button in the gui and seeing the WYSIWYG results.

The reason Word is #1 right now and not wordperfect is because they got pwned. Their stuff was all 80s like way up into the 90s.

 

[Nothinman]

So you liked hitting Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F11 (per your paper template taped to your keyboard) to insert some ugly jibberish into your document then hope it turned out ok for print? I personally liked hitting a bullet point button in the gui and seeing the WYSIWYG results.

No, what I like is hitting the bullet point button in the GUI and having Word f' up my formatting and then going back and fixing it for 20 minutes before I can print it, that's the best. WYSIWYG maybe true, but WYS probably isn't what you want.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

So you liked hitting Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F11 (per your paper template taped to your keyboard) to insert some ugly jibberish into your document then hope it turned out ok for print? I personally liked hitting a bullet point button in the gui and seeing the WYSIWYG results.

No, what I like is hitting the bullet point button in the GUI and having Word f' up my formatting and then going back and fixing it for 20 minutes before I can print it, that's the best. WYSIWYG maybe true, but WYS probably isn't what you want.

Dude, you've been chasing me all over the forums bitching about MS today. You're turning into VirtualLarry, I swear.

 

[Nothinman]

I haven't been chasing you, it's just been dumb luck, seriously.