EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! WordPerfect, why?

Sadie, your federal goverment is still back in the 80s technically. My agency just converted to Word last year and I still get document from people in WP because they're too stubborn to learn Word.

And then there are those of us who have almost the same conversation with Word anytime we try to have stupid numbered headers with child sections. Especially if two people have worked on it - why is the normal template not standard?

Total concentration... That is what's called for when dueling with the word processing portion of your computer! Anything less and you are defeated!

You'll have my WP when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. I'm never giving up Reveal Codes. It's the Second Amendment of word processing.

I admired WP for the reveal codes (and despised it for everything else). Then, I found how to make word do reveal codes. After that, I learned they were less necessary than first thought. ;)

Sadie, it's the lawyers that made WP the hit that it was.

And that is to say that Word behaves just as badly with paragraph numbering.

I have no dog in this hunt; I have used both word processors extensively and they BOTH suck for certain reasons.

Best of luck, Robbo. ;)

What Lysander said. You don't need Reveal Codes in Word. That's what the Undo button is for.

You do need "reveal codes" in Word sometimes. I used it this very day. It's just that it's a checkbox under Tools, Options (if memory serves--happily I'm at home, where Word dares not intrude).

Word Perfect never used to pull that s[expletive deleted] until Corel decided that it needed to quack more like Word. Oh, how I miss the good ol' days. (Signed, a lawyer who spends all day fighting with Word formatting in her 50+ page documents and never had to with Word Perfect 5.0.)