🐑Logic eludes them !! 🐑
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WordPerfect was much more powerful than Word. There were hundreds of things Word couldn't do or only did badly, but were easy in WordPerfect.
To this day, I use WordPerfect for all my writing. I've written a number of books using WordPerfect. It's great for creating a table of contents and generating an index and internal cross-references.
I loved WP miss using it, stupid companies started dumping it because they wanted a set standard in being able to share documentation enter Word, never have liked it.
I always thought that shared documents should be in a simple format that all programs could read, such as plain text or RTF (rich text format).
Is wordperfect still a thing?
I guess it doesn't really matter since I've switched to libreoffice for personal use.
Yes it is. WordPerfect is the most powerful word processing program on the market. I have been a professional user since the 5.0 DOS version, and I am an expert on the program. I was also forced to use Word at a job for a while, so I'm an expert on that, at least as it existed almost 20 years ago.
I will continue to use WordPerfect as long as I can type.
Cool, I wasn't aware. MS Office is just standard just about everywhere I've been, and when I've tried asking about the why of that choice it is also the answer, "we use it because everyone uses it."
Mind you, if I hadn't switched to libreoffice I'd still be using office 2010 in spite of the warnings that "this product is no longer supported" whenever it opened.
WordPerfect used to be the standard in the legal profession, because of their support for features required in that field, such as table of authorities in briefs.
Tip: If you want to keep using an old software in Windows 10 or 11, download Oracle Virtual Box and create a virtual machine on your computer. Then download a copy of Windows XP from Archive.org to install in that virtual machine.
I have done that, and I can now run software that I first used back in the late 80s and 90s.
It's not hard to do. There are tutorials on YouTube.
You can also create multiple virtual machines. Then you can also have Linux, DOS, or other operating systems on your computer.
Just say no to Bill Gates and his never ending "upgrade" cycle.