It's a real shame that the folks at Microsoft were able to capitalize on the fact that their operating system, installed on virtually all PC's, was a product that, almost from the beginning, completely monopolized the marketplace. I have never found any substitute as powerful or as versatile - or as easy to customize in so many ways to my own personal needs and idiosyncrasies as WordPerfect. I have tried several other software programs, including Word 97, Word 2003, and Word 2010, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and IBM Lotus Word Pro (among others).
In 1989, I switched to WordPerfect 5.1 for MS-DOS, and three or four years later to WordPerfect 6.0, a wonderful MS-DOS product with a graphical interface.īy 1996 I graduated to WordPerfect's superb 6.1 for Windows 95, and in the years that followed, to WP 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and X6. It came with WordStar on a 5.25-inch floppy disk. My first PC was an IBM-compatible Sanyo, purchased in 1983 for my solo law practice. In another lifetime, I was able to persuade the local government agency that then employed me to lease or purchase an IBM MC/ST ("Magnetic Card/Selectric Typewriter"), a truly marvelous and genuine, albeit primitive, dedicated word processor. I have a long history using word processors from as long ago as 1969, before the advent of PCs. Without a doubt, this was the easiest installation I've ever experienced with this venerable (and much loved) program. The macros, templates, address book, keyboards, toolbars and other features which I have so carefully crafted and modified over the years in various iterations of WordPerfect were merged into WP17 with nary a hiccup. It was surprisingly easy and painless to upgrade to WPX7 from two earlier versions (WP12 and WPX6).
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