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Re:The Command-Line Office by brudgers on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @11:35PM (#7345298)
WordPerfect was great because it was essentially a text editor with a markup language. When formatting wasn't coming out quite right it could be debugged easily with by pressing the key to "reveal codes".

The other thing that made WordPerfect great was their technical support. Free and unlimited over the phone...and they new what they were talking about and if it was a genuine bug, they would have an engineer call you back on their dime. Or at least that's what happened when I found a bug in Summer of 1992.

Microsoft Word buries its formatting. Sometimes it's easier to just nuke a file to text and reformat the whole thing than to try to solve conflicting formats overlapping.

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Re:The Command-Line Office by gaius on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:31AM (#7345838)
You need a ruthless discipline to use Word in anger, do everything through styles and nothing "manually" otherwise it all goes to hell. Unfortunately Word makes it all too easy to do.
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Re:The Command-Line Office by JetSpiegel on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @06:20AM (#7346373)
Which makes it nearly impossible to collaborate with other that don't think like that.

It seems like nobody I work with even knows what styles are.

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