WTF is up with secertaries and Word Perfect?

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Spooner
Where does NotePad and WordPad fit into the mix?

They are the programs that nobody dare speak about when attempting to actually do word processing. Notepad is better suited as a text editor only... and WordPad... well, it's just not suited for much of anything.

I do most of my programming in WodPad. I just set the default to text mode and all is well.

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: crab

Originally posted by: jndietz
i don't know anyone who uses word perfect, either.

 

[BoberFett]

I think it's changed now, but for a long time Wordperfect was the choice of a huge percentage of law offices and courts.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
the worst part is that since we're migrating them all from win98 to XP, WP8 (the newest version) doesn't work properly. Spell check crashes the program, and if you run in compatibility mode, spell check doesn't work at all...

Actually they are up to version 12 now.

 

[Digobick]

Originally posted by: Carazariah

Word Perfect was the default standard for the legal industry for years. The simple functionality of WP 5.1 for DOS won over many a law firm back in the day. Law Firms give rise to some of the most adept, dilligent and hard working secretaries around (At least High Class Firms do) Thus WP became a standard. Functions like "Reveal Codes" provided a depth of precision editing still lacking in today's Word for Windows and its just in the last 3 to 5 years that firms have dumped WP and started moving in mass to Word. . .
But many secretaries learned WP from the ground up, and the shortcut keys make certain replacement funtions a breeze.

So WP loyalty and knowledge among older secretaries is pretty high, and possibly among firms that haven't switched to Word yet.

FYI
Wiki 411 on WP

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Interesting. That reminded me of a blog post from a Microsoft programmer that talks some more about the history of WordStar, Word Perfect, and MS Word.

 

[conjur]

Wordstar, baby!

<Ctrl-K> is where's it's at!

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
The Reveal Codes feature in WP is *ALWAYS* the answer I get from paralegals and diehard WP users when I pop the question. (Why aren't you using MS Word?)

Yep, same answer I always got back then. Word97 I believe added the feature. Hit the backwards P looking icon in the standard toolbar (I think it's the paragraph symbol).

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
the worst part is that since we're migrating them all from win98 to XP, WP8 (the newest version) doesn't work properly. Spell check crashes the program, and if you run in compatibility mode, spell check doesn't work at all...

Actually they are up to version 12 now.

WP8 is the newest version we have. Sad, I know.

 

[Vegito]

Actually a lot of law firm are still using WP.. we get so much documents that we need to convert and crap...

 

[andylawcc]

humm.... sounds like WP is the 133t thing to do, I am jumping on the bandwagon!

 

[desy]

Round here you can buy an OEM WP office suite for $20
Quite a bargain

 

[FoBoT]

it is just the ones that learned it back in the 80's and 90's

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: conjur
Wordstar, baby!

<Ctrl-K> is where's it's at!

Wordstar 6 is so well written that it works on XP. I have a version that I have had since 1990 that I have no clue where the install disks are but I have been copying that directory from machine to machine as I have upgraded through DOS 3.3 up to XP and it never fails to work.

 

[eigen]

I use appleworks so I dont know what that says about me..

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I don't know anyone who uses WordPefect.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: NatePo717

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I don't know anyone who uses WordPefect.

I'd bet you do, and just don't know it.