WTF is up with secertaries and Word Perfect?

[Leper Messiah]

Every single secertary that I support uses word perfect. Is this like a national thing for secertaries or something? It gets annoying having to support two platforms...

 

[JulesMaximus]

I don't know anyone who uses WordPefect.

 

[Saint Nick]

i don't know anyone who uses word perfect, either.

 

[crab]

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

 

[Pepsei]

back then in college, on the unix mainframe, that's what everyone used. late 80's? early 90's? we used IRC on the mainframe too, pick up a chick in NY and had sex with her... true story.

 

[biostud]

If Word Perfect and Word shared document types I would use Word Perfect.

 

[rh71]

Word didn't get popular till around... '95 ? I actually had HS classes with WordPerfect.

 

[neonerd]

I used to use WP on win 3.1

 

[tikwanleap]

Originally posted by: neonerd
I used to use WP on win 3.1

Me too. on dos too.

 

[NyteCrawler]

Same where I work.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: rh71
Word didn't get popular till around... '95 ?

right, back then, word sucked, so everyone on campus used wordperfect. and we didn't have mp3s back then, only the elite few knew about it.

 

[frankie38]

Wordperfect used to be the leading DOS wp program before Word for windows. So, I bet these people are older and never adapted.

 

[PingSpike]

workperfect was probably what they used after they stopped using typewriters. The change from typewriters was probably horrible for them, so they refuse to change again.

 

[IronWing]

WordPerfect's "show codes" feature is the main reason. Plus learning a new mail merge is a drag.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
It gets annoying having to support two platforms...

Be grateful it isn't WordStar.

 

[rh71]

can someone explain how Microsoft Works suite got into the picture ?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: rh71
can someone explain how Microsoft Works suite got into the picture ?

When Windows first came out there wasn't much written for it. Microsoft wanted to bundle applications with Windows so folks could start using the OS right out of the box. Works was the result.

The real question IMHO is "why is Works still around"?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: rh71
can someone explain how Microsoft Works suite got into the picture ?

When Windows first came out there wasn't much written for it. Microsoft wanted to bundle applications with Windows so folks could start using the OS right out of the box. Works was the result.

The real question IMHO is "why is Works still around"?

No, the real question is "Why doesn't microsoft office automatically convert works documents to word?"

 

[nakedfrog]

I still use WordPerfect 5.1 for all of my serious writing. Nothing beats the purity of the interface. It's just you and the text, no menus or anything else.

 

[WT]

WordPerfect's "show codes" feature is the main reason

DING DING DING !!!

Winnar !!!!

Thats every secretarie's response to this question at work, and ... yanno what ??? They are RIGHT !!!

 

[desy]

Yup reveal codes and something about the ruler formating is better. . .

 

[chowderhead]

you can also create and export documents to PDFs. I don't like PDFs but they seem to be useful for some people. Also, some people like the interface more than Word. I do agree that it tends to be people that used Perfect after switching from typewriters and do not want to switch again.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

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

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: ironwing
WordPerfect's "show codes" feature is the main reason.

The same reason why I would rather use it than word. If only the document type was an open standard.

 

[Homerboy]

our entire office uses it
Most Law Firms do in fact.