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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I've produced whole catelogs, small magazines and show programs with 
imported documents from every source imaginable, pictures, graphics, various 
size fonts, columns, tables, tables in columns, print running around the 
outside edge of pages, and everyother thing that people buy programs like 
PageMaker to do just using WordPerfect.  I can set up columns and tables and 
have the program add the totals in the columns and then alphabetize them. 
Track all the dates on a document from inception to finished product.  I 
like having a "fail safe" built in option and an auto draft save.  I like 
being able to see all the codes and formatting from documents that I've 
imported and being able to tell the program to delete all the indents and it 
goes through and deletes them all.  It also allows me to take an old scanned 
document and reformat it and even change the fonts.

BTW, I don't give a hoot one way or the other about Microsoft, I just don't 
like any of their wordprocessing programs.  None of them or even all of them 
together can do the things I could do with the old WordStar faster or jump 
through the hoops I can make WordPerfect do.  All of the various Words, 
including the newest edition, are clunky and cumbersome and simply don't 
have the capabilities that even an old version of WordPerfect does.

I just don't have the patience to put up with a slow program or one that 
means I need to have more than one program.

I didn't mean to start a discussion about word processing programs, I really 
wanted to know more about the operating system on the new Macs and wondered 
if they were more, hmmmm, creative or talented or whatever than Windows 
which I find to be a rather cumbersome attempt to duplicate the old Apple 
format, I guess you'd call it.  At anyrate, I'm out and about looking at 
computers and dragging my heels over getting another PC or a Mac or a PC and 
getting rid of Windows and installing something else.

Lynda


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


> Other than profiting a company easy to dislike, what is wrong with
> Microsoft Word? I have used it to write several books, journals, and
> other stuff and found it easy to use and it gets the job done fine.
> It is easy to import into PageMaker, too, with all formatting preserved.
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