I _LIKED_ Display Codes. Sometimes it was the best way to clean up an errant style change causing funkiness on print. Wish it was possible to do that on OOo.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmills@speakeasy.net">johnmills@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Minority of one here.<br>
<br>
I started using MsWord with v-3 in roughly 1984. My significant driver was<br>
Word's good handling for printers available where I worked, especially an<br>
Apple laser printer. I then also found Word's models of document structure<br>
and organization far better matched to my writing approach than those of<br>
WordPerfect. (I can't give OpenOffice very high marks on this yet, either,<br>
but I do still have some hope.)<br>
<br>
Both Word (with RTF) and WordPerfect (whatever) used markup languages that<br>
were essentially embedded text, but Word used a bit of encryption to<br>
obfuscate things. (What an original thought!)<br>
<br>
I always thought it clear evidence of poor design that WordPerfect users<br>
spent so much time staring at the "Display Codes" screen; you could see<br>
that on consoles as you walked from office to office down the hall.<br>
(Remember having _offices_?)<br>
<br>
As to quality -- well, there are still even some hard-core Word*Star users<br>
out there! Go figure!!<br>
<br>
Flame on -- it's the "silly season".<br>
<br>
- Mills<br>
<br>
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:<br>
<br>
> What crap!<br>
<br>
> MS Word took off for one reason - They gave it away along with Excel and<br>
> Access because the people PAYING for software new Word sucked compared<br>
> to WordPerfect and Excel sucked compared to Lotus 123. Not only did<br>
> they give it away - they forced PC manufacturers to bundle in on new PCs<br>
> with the threat of NOT being allowed to include DOS/Windows. Once MS<br>
> Office became the defacto standard they quit giving it away.<br>
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