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Ken Blake
Equal? I think it's better. And it always has been.
But I think Excel is much better than Quattro Pro and PowerPoint much
better than Presentations. WordPerfect itself is the only program I
use in the WordPerfect suite.
Equal? I think it's better. And it always has been.
But I think Excel is much better than Quattro Pro and PowerPoint much
better than Presentations. WordPerfect itself is the only program I
use in the WordPerfect suite.
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Gene E. Bloch
That's actually pretty easy. But it doesn't end there...
It should suffice to say that for me Word was *far* easier, *far* more
effective, and *far* pleasanter to use.
But since (as expected) fans of WP are true believers, it does not
suffice to say that, so I will now bow out of this subthread, rather
than continuing to address deaf ears.
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Gene E. Bloch
Are you saying that you choose what works best for you?
Radical idea! Great idea...
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Ken Blake
What? What? Can't hear you! <vbg>
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BillW50
You are kidding? There are still people using that dinosaur? What OS are
they running it under, Win 3.1? That is where my WP lives and I say good
riddance.
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Gene E. Bloch
For you, a VBG; for me, LOL at your post
I think you're bringing this subthread back to sanity. Wish I could
join you ;-)
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Gene E. Bloch
WP exists in the world of Windows, and apparently lots of people really
like it (you can see that here).
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...winston‫
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Adam Kubias
That's insane. I only choose programs that really frustrate me but
everyone else says are good.
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Gene E. Bloch
That's good. I will take my inspiration from you
Kidding aside, some degree of that seems to be unavoidable. I can't
seem to find any product in any domain (software, photography,
automotive, etc, ad infinitum) that doesn't have some degree of
frustration built in.
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Ken Springer
Might not be so bad if there were decent manuals/help files available
for software.
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Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 24.0
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Ken Blake
That's good. I will take my inspiration from you
Kidding aside, some degree of that seems to be unavoidable. I can't
seem to find any product in any domain (software,
software
photoware
carware
etcware
ad infinitum)
adware?
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Gene E. Bloch
That manages to make good sense!
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pjp
Jumping in late here but used to use Wordperfect originally and switched
to Word way back in DOS days before Windows 2 even was released.
Why you ask? 1 reason stands out. In Wordperfect you'd ask for help and
it'd say push a key and I'll tell you what it does. In Word help was
tell me what you want to do and I'll tell you the keys to push. Which to
you makes more sense when you want help to do something specific.
I can remember specifically being able to ask for help in Word to merge
some mass mailing thingie where address and people changed each copy of
printout. I did it on the fly using Word's help. Wordperfect would have
required reading way to much manual etc. etc. that I doubt I would have
even bothered if that was only option.
BTW - anyone remember name of word processer was popular just before
these two appeared, e.g. had to use Ctrl-K and things like that for
formatting.
to Word way back in DOS days before Windows 2 even was released.
Why you ask? 1 reason stands out. In Wordperfect you'd ask for help and
it'd say push a key and I'll tell you what it does. In Word help was
tell me what you want to do and I'll tell you the keys to push. Which to
you makes more sense when you want help to do something specific.
I can remember specifically being able to ask for help in Word to merge
some mass mailing thingie where address and people changed each copy of
printout. I did it on the fly using Word's help. Wordperfect would have
required reading way to much manual etc. etc. that I doubt I would have
even bothered if that was only option.
BTW - anyone remember name of word processer was popular just before
these two appeared, e.g. had to use Ctrl-K and things like that for
formatting.
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Ken Blake
Do you mean Wordstar? That was the first word processor I used, and I
hated it.
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BillW50
pjp said:
Yes, it is called WordStar and I still use it on occasion today.
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BillW50
Ken Blake said:
I too hated it! Although my friend said just stick it out and I said ok.
I still hated for weeks, but I still used it everyday. Then I started to
learn about all of the amazing things you could do with it. Then a bit
later, it wasn't even hard to use anymore and everything just made so
much sense. Also you could fly on that thing because your fingers stayed
on the home row. Plus if you were a programmer, it was a dream come
true, as it had non-document mode. ;-)
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Yousuf Khan
BTW, I might have a solution to the Thunderbird freezes that some of us
experience, but not others. It may have something to do with antivirus
scanning. I'd suggest excluding the entire directory from being scanned
in which Thunderbird's databases exists, usually %appdata%\Thunderbird,
inside your antivirus software.
Yousuf Khan
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BillW50
In Yousuf Khan typed:
I was asked to find the caused of this problem and my mail shield isn't
installed. And using process monitors and logs, Thunderbirds freezes
whenever it picks up messages here. I turned off automatic get messages
and Thunderbird no longer freezes at all for me.
I was asked to find the caused of this problem and my mail shield isn't
installed. And using process monitors and logs, Thunderbirds freezes
whenever it picks up messages here. I turned off automatic get messages
and Thunderbird no longer freezes at all for me.
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