Windows is about to get BTFO'd, but good
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Ewww that sounds yucky
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Yeah, I had to look it up and course-correct, there; to run WP12 without Microslop's crap, you'd want ReactOS.
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ReactOS might do ya -- if you're really hankering for a return to WordPerfect 12.
It’s never going to work cause Microsoft + Google
It became too complicated when everyone went paperless.
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What I use: Ultramarine 43 KDE Plasma Edition + CachyOS kernel + LibreOffice (for your use-case.)
YMMW, of course.
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Dude, Murdock does not understand the difference between an Operating System and a Word Processor.
BTW, I use WordPerfect X9. WordPerfect is the best word processor I have ever used...it went to shit for a few years when Lotus bought it....the Corel fixed it.
Murdock probably does not know that newer versions of WordPerfect will work with the latest versions of Windows.
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You posted 'WP12'. That's not Windows 12. I mean, unless they're gonna call it 'Windows Perhaps 12' or something. lel
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You can't have a meaningful conversation with Murdock. I mean, if you catch her in between coming off the last round of booze and drugs you just might catch her before she's drunk and high again but you've got a very narrow margin to work with.
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Is Wordperfect any good @The Question ?
If so what makes it so good/great?
I'd like to snage a cheap copy and install it on Windows 7/10.
I remember they once had a Mac version.
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I dunno; I use Bibisco for story structuring, then export to Scrivener for composition and editing, then export from there to Sigil for layout/publishing prep.
That's for long-form stuff like short stories, novelettes, novellas, and book-length fiction & nonfiction.
For everything else, LibreOffice Writer is perfectly fine.
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I'm sort of partial to Notepad.
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It is great.
Alt-F3
i.e. Reveal Codes
If you ever had a bunch of editing in a word processing document in one spot and you were not exactly sure what was all there, you can actually see it in WordPerfect and edit the codes.
Moving diagrams around is much easier and more accurate than I have seen in other word processors.
I have found the Table of Contents feature to be easy to use. I use that to make end-user manuals for software that I write. I also use it when I produce technical systems manuals.
I mean, you name it, I find that WordPerfect does it intuitively.
I will say that the only other word processor I have used much in the last 20 years is Apache OpenOffice which is less powerful but good enough for basic documents and allows me to share them (in their native format) among machines that do not have WordPerfect.
I will say, to be fair, that years ago WordPerfect was weak with OLE Automation. I used DDE instead, which worked like a charm. This is probably way beyond your level of understanding, Senile @Joe.
Where did I need to utilize that functionality?
In the insurance software that I wrote to produce custom booklets for the clients that detailed their coverage. The plan designs were very flexible and included life insurance, weekly indemnity, long term disability, extended health care, and dental coverage. The end-user would make a menu selection to create a booklet, select the client and the class or employee, and a second later they would have the entire document show up in WordPerfect.
Fuckin' slick.
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Interesting
Does it happen to work with Microsoft visio?
Or does wp have similar built in drawing tools?
Visio is a good software that ms owns.
They didn't invent it tho
If it works with wp be a bonus.
Corel products are often on specidl so i'll see if i can find an ilder permanent license on ebay.
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I already own Corel DRAW & Painter Lex @The Prowler . Both for the Mac & Windows
They're actually as good as Photoshop & cost a fraction of the price.
Plus they're still available as permanent licenses.
I think Adobe sells because of its cache of brand name recognition. Otherwise Painter & CorelDRAW can do pretty much everything Photoshop does which seems overpriced and overrated. Plus they don't sell permanent licenses anymore.
One nice feature about CorelDRAW is it has all the Pantone tables built into the software which Photoshop and Illustrator took out. So CorelDRAW still is regarded and used in the printing industry where it still has a niche of T Shirt makers and arts crafts people
They're actually as good as Photoshop & cost a fraction of the price.
Plus they're still available as permanent licenses.
I think Adobe sells because of its cache of brand name recognition. Otherwise Painter & CorelDRAW can do pretty much everything Photoshop does which seems overpriced and overrated. Plus they don't sell permanent licenses anymore.
One nice feature about CorelDRAW is it has all the Pantone tables built into the software which Photoshop and Illustrator took out. So CorelDRAW still is regarded and used in the printing industry where it still has a niche of T Shirt makers and arts crafts people
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