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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by compiler-guy on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:41PM (#27510102)
WP is and was wicked fast, and the blank screen, distraction free ui is amazing, the macro language is very powerful also.

There were law firms that used it well into the late 90s due to the amazing macros they had going. Think of the complicated Excel macros one hears about. Same thing, only with law firms and lawyers.

There are still people who run wordstar (which WP supplanted in the eighties).

I wouldn’t use it now, but is was an amazing product in its day.

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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by bawolff on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:45PM (#27510128)
Pretty sure it was used well past late 90s. At least late 2000s
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by tingletech on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:03PM (#27510236)
still widely used in the legal world as far as I know
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by rietta on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:28AM (#27513300)
1st hand knowledge of contemporary usage in court offices. We still support WPD file attachments as well.
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by encryptluks2 on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:43PM (#27510120)
There is similar modern software as well.. no need to revert to an unmaintained program just to get something that may be a little faster than a full office suite.
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by compiler-guy on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:44PM (#27510124)
No one is saying that you should. But very few word processors today are anything close to as fast. Maybe abiword. Certainly not google docs or Microsoft word.
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by ipaddr on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:57PM (#27510783)
How does open office compare?
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:38PM (#27511014)
If you want maintained, that's libreoffice. And no, LO lags on semi-modern hardware.
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by compiler-guy on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:19AM (#27511921)
I haven’t used it, but unless it’s macro language is about as powerful as excel’s, and unless it has no detectable latency at all, it isn’t as good in that department at least.
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Re:You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free by tingletech on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:01PM (#27510225)
it's still supported on windows
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