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02-05-2013, 12:32 PM
| | | | Anyone here remember using Word Star? Lol! |
02-05-2013, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Perry County, PA | | | bring back Microsoft Works |
02-05-2013, 02:01 PM
|  | The sea refuses no river. | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NJ | | I use LibreOffice on my home machine and haven't had any compatibility issues with MS Office documents. It's free - can't hurt to give it a shot before you shell out $. https://www.libreoffice.org/
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02-05-2013, 02:21 PM
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02-06-2013, 12:43 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | My early word processing was done using software called View on a BBC microcomputer. ROM based, no WYSIWYG, no mouse even... ouch.
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02-07-2013, 11:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Rockville, MD | | | I was also a long time Word Perfect user and there are still some things it does much better than Word (very large complex documents, or multiple images within tables). But I have also gotten somewhat used to Word. At my last job, our requirements document was ~25 4" binders, and to manage this document, Word Perfect had to be used. For those of you who have had to deal with very large documents, you'll understand the splitting into multiple documents by chapter in Word that can be cumbersome. For home use, I find OpenOffice works well enough even though it has less power than Word. |
02-07-2013, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill My early word processing was done using software called View on a BBC microcomputer. ROM based, no WYSIWYG, no mouse even... ouch. | Acorn? |
02-07-2013, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by pflash4001 Anyone here remember using Word Star? Lol! | Yep. If you tried to save a file to a drive or disk that didn't have the room, your file disappeared into the ether. Good times.
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02-07-2013, 01:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Los Angeles | | | I still hate the 2007 layout. 2003 was the best user experience overall in my opinion.
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02-07-2013, 01:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Word is fine but it still treats everyone like a moron, and it DOES NOT REVEAL ALL THE CODES!!!
WordPerfect did a better job of that in1990 and still does. Unfortunately Word has won the battle.
But on computers where I don't want to buy a MS Office license, I run Open Office and it has been OK.
My word processing experience goes back to an IBM Displaywriter with 8" floppies in 1980, and yes, I remember WordStar - what a sad excuse for a word processor.
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02-07-2013, 05:23 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | I've got Open / Libre Office on my Linux computer for my business, and have also installed it on various Windows machines. Overall it's OK, but the devil is in the details. The user interface is unforgiving in terms of clicking in exactly the right place, and has a slow response that makes it seem erratic. Those things add to eyestrain and wrist fatigue that I have to be careful to avoid. So, the program gets a poor rating for ergonomics.
Word processing isn't a big deal. I rarely write formatted documents any more, except for my Web presence, which lives inside Google Sites. I prefer a text editor or WordPad.
The spreadsheet program is... a disaster. It is extremely slow, and the user interface problems are multiplied tenfold. Since I do a great deal of work with spreadsheets, I am going to make the effort to get Office 2010 running on my Linux box. |
02-07-2013, 07:29 PM
|  | Just days from retirement. | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Lincoln, NE | | | My first word processor was AtariWriter on my atari 800, then went to STWriter when the Atari ST series came out.
Don't use a word processor as much as a spread sheet. Since I went to the MacPro I've had to get the MicroShaft Suite. Numbers isn't really very good, but neither is Excel when compared to Quattro Pro which is the spreadsheet bundled with Word Perfect. Unfortunately Corel doesn't have a Mac version.
If there was a Mac version of Word Perfect Suite I'd have it. Overall much better programs, but not nearly the usage that Word has. Never had the resources to market it like MicroShaft did. Nor get it into the business and schools.
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02-07-2013, 07:40 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | No more Word Perfect for the Mac? That's a bummer.
My first computer was a really funky MS-DOS box, a Sanyo MBC550, that was non-PC compatible, but ran a copy of Word Perfect that I somehow got hold of. Naturally I kept with Word Perfect, even when I went over to the Mac side for a few years. I just threw away the floppies.
The thing that got me into Excel was when MS adopted Visual Basic as their macro language. Until that point I had relatively little use for a spreadsheet. |
02-07-2013, 08:08 PM
| | Just days from retirement. | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Lincoln, NE | | | Not any more. Just on a PC. I suppose it'd run on the PC emulator, but if I wanted a PC I'd have just kept the laptop I had.
First computer was a Vic20, kept it for one day, returned it and bought an Atari 400, then the 800 then went to the Atari ST line.
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