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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35607747

Kids today and their fancy Office 365.


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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WordPerfect's "Reveal Codes" mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It's like viewing the HTML of a web page.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Word has that. It is a paragraph mark button.

I use it all the time.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a copy of Word handy, but I don't think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Correct. Word's was page and whitespace only, Wordperfect was nearer to markup, like HTML/XML, you could see bold, italic, font size changes, etc.

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there anything ms word can do that word perfect couldn't do back then? Ms word is so clunky

[–] Schorsch@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago

Well yes, there are a lot more features in MS Word >!(that nobody actually needs and asked for)!<.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WP 5.1 on DOS for me. Kids these days and their fancy WYSIWYG.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Ironically, WP for Macintosh was probably the best WYSIWYG word processor in existence, especially since the great Word 5.1->6.0 regression.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I learned using AppleWorks and then ClarisWorks.

[–] graeghos_714@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I wrote documentation at Ford for a while and when we switched from WordPerfect to Word I got a waver for 2 years to continue using WordPerfect because it was so much more efficient because of the ability to see all formatting. When they forced me to Word I quit writing documents for the most part

[–] luca 2 points 10 months ago

Still using it today and it's great.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Wasn't that at the same time works was out?

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

See the house that Corel built, and weep ['cause it throws taste right out of the window]