Microsoft Word vs. WordPerfect

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I haven't been chasing you, it's just been dumb luck, seriously.

I can't believe I called you VirtualLarry and got no backlash.

haha, I went there!

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, I was just going to ignore that part =)

 

[xtknight]

WordPerfect is the most unintuitive piece of cow doo-doo I've used in my life. With that out of the way, Microsoft Word FTW. Though both have these annoying auto-formatting things. Just let me type how I want, Jesus. And on occassion I feel like getting out a hammer and crushing the paper clip, but he's been long gone with the Hide function.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: 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.

Never had a paper template - I think that was the DOS versions. I was working with one of the GUI versions. In any case, the formatting actuially worked in WP. And if it didn't you could show the codes and fix it quickly & easily. Word was a nightmare to get things formatted properly, and once you did, all bets were off with regard to the actual printed output.

And it crashed continually if you got beyond a 4 or 5 page document with any kind of significant formatting.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Armitage
And it crashed continually if you got beyond a 4 or 5 page document with any kind of significant formatting.

Hmm...How to respond, how to respond?

Aha, got it!



Bullsh*t!!

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: Armitage
And it crashed continually if you got beyond a 4 or 5 page document with any kind of significant formatting.

Hmm...How to respond, how to respond?

Aha, got it!



Bullsh*t!!

Shrug - whatever you say. I wrote my thesis in WP - about 200 pages. And it printed fine on my dot matrix. But it had to be printed on a laser printer, and the lab boxes only had word. So I basically imported the whole thing into word.. Which didn't work worth a damn. So I had to save the whole thing as ASCII text, load it into word, and then redo all the formatting, graphics, tables, etc. That's when I discovered that more then a few pages at a time and it went to hell. I had to break up the docment into bite size chunks so Word wouldn't sh|t itself. And this was Win31, so when Word sh|t itself, it would often take the OS down with it. But if you say so, it must be bullsh*t. I just imagined all those allnighters in the lab re-writing my thesis so that fscking MS Word could digest it.

Don't even get me started on the damn Word macro viruses in the mid 90's either :|

 

[QueBert]

Imagine this, Wordperfect is better in almost aspect, except it doesn't have MS behind it. The ONLY reason Word is the standard now is MS owns anything the put out. If people started using Wordperfect, we could see the return of it. Maybe it's not better to everyone, but for general text editing nobody would care, and it would be supporting a peice of software that isn't made by the company who wants to rule the world.

Or you can wait for Word 2006 and get NEW features that were in Wordperfect 3 years ago, it's your choice...

I'm not saying WP is better, I am saying however, I like it better. and I'd much rather support a company who's not hell bent on pushing standards down my throat. The whole new Office DOC format that will have some sort of exceyption, making it uneditable in WP or OpenOffice is a big turn off for me. I don't see how anyone can support Office with a move like that.

 

[imported_BigD]

Originally posted by: 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?

Well said!