Anybody still use Wordperfect?

[2muchcoffeeman]

Just wondering if anybody here is using the current version. If so, what did you think of it?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Works like a charm on my Tandy 1000

 

[FuerteJ]

Is that the word program that comes with the Windows home edition? Because if it is, yeah, I do. It's fine.

 

[OTD]

Just wondering if anybody here is using the current version. If so, what did you think of it?

I'm using WordPerfect v10. Works fine. The only problem I've had is that PowerPoint presentations lose a little bit in the translation to the Corel version. I got Office on my kids' computer because they have to be able to share stuff at school.

 

[Chi City 81]

I'm still using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on my Apple IIE.

 

[Perry White]

 

[Perry White]

Is that the word program that comes with the Windows home edition? Because if it is, yeah, I do. It's fine.

I think you're thinking of Microsoft Works.

 

[Chef]

Yeh.......the program for WordPerfect is fine, but if I e-mail an attachment using WordPerfect, 99% of the time, the file gets screwed up somewhere, and they can't use it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

You mean Wordperfect's mail program? Meh ... I'm rather partial to Thunderbird for that.

Saw the current version of Wordperfect Office in the local Staples and was intrigued, but I don't know anything about the current Windows version (a long, long time ago, I was an enthusiastic fan of Wordperfect 3.5 for the Mac) so I thought I'd ask.

 

[buckweaver]

I'm still using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on my Apple IIE.

Holy ****. Coffee on the computer screen.

I remember that -- I had that ****ing program in the sixth grade.

It didn't help ... ;D

 

[Jones]

I have a buddy who came while dry humping Mavis Beacon against a stack of empty beer cases piled in the alley behind the Red Dog Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario.

To this day, we call him the quick brown fox.

 

[Jeff Gluck]

Wow, that brings back memories. I remember having a homework assignment to type a list of about 50 random words in alphabetical order. My mom was furious with me because I figured out how to alphabetize them using the list command in wordperfect and saved about a half hour of actual work.

As a result, to this day I have no idea whether A comes before B.

 

[Angola!]

I have Wordperfect 11 and I hate it. I bought a Dell and for some reason skimped when choosing what kind of Windows software I wanted and ended up with Wordperfect. It is really special when everyone else in the world is using Word and you can't open the files on your computer unless they save them as text only.
Also, Wordperfect's excel program sucks ass.

 

[Oz]

Works like a charm on my Tandy 1000

Oh how I don't miss those ...

 

[ballscribe]

I still have Wordperfect 3.5 on my Mac, although it has to run in Classic mode.
The Mac version was unbelievably easy and compact at the time; I thought Word had far too much for what I needed.
I still have it because my template for my expense reimbursement form is on it, and I'm too lazy to create another on Word.

But since the planet uses Word, and anything I tried to send via e-mail always got screwed up in translation, I kind of had to give up my Jones for it.

 

[HeinekenMan]

I wasn't aware that people still used Word Perfect. I faintly recall it having served a purpose during some long-forgotten early era of the PC.

Out of curiosity, CM, how do you use it? I mean, what sort of applications call for Word Perfect?

 

[Football_Bat]

I remember WordPerfect, but the best thing about it was the thesaurus feature. Turned yours truly into Grantland Rice in the blink of a alt-key stroke.

I still cringe.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

I cut my teeth on WP5.1 many, many moons ago (When I was still a computer operator on a mainframe) :P

I hated WP6.0. It was just an excuse to make a few bucks while waiting for WP6.1, which was and still is the best word processor ever made.

Once WP was sold to CorelDraw, I thought it went downhill. It became too difficult to use, which was the antithesis of what WP was supposed to be.

 

[Perry White]

I have a buddy who came while dry humping Mavis Beacon against a stack of empty beer cases piled in the alley behind the Red Dog Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario.

I guess she isn't as prim and proper as she looks!

 

[Sly]

I have a buddy who came while dry humping Mavis Beacon against a stack of empty beer cases piled in the alley behind the Red Dog Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario.

To this day, we call him the quick brown fox.

Is that true?

If not, please explain the joke :)