🐑Logic eludes them !! 🐑
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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.
I still have windows 7 too... I've looked into similar options, but at this point I'm more likely to switch to linux where possible instead of windows 10+.
Last time I tried, I wound up spending most of my time with the windows emulator, but now most software I use (aside games that I barely play anymore) have linux versions.
Sidetracking, I was just curious at the mention of wordperfect since I hadn't heard of it in decades and my last memory was trying to open word documents with it and everything being squiggle text.
WordPerfect can actually save in Word format better than Word can. If you try to save Word document in Word as an older version of Word, it actually saves it as a Rich Text Format document, not Word. But WordPerfect can save a document in an old Word format for real.
WordPerfect can properly open and read almost every word processing document format ever. It can even read ancient WordStar documents, the program that originated our common shortcuts of Ctrl-C to cut, Ctrl-P to print, etc.
Much of the software I use has no Linux version yet, so I must use Windows for now.