February 23, 2006

Conversations With WordPerfect


Me: Paragraph "12".
WP: You mean Paragraph "H".
Me: Nooooo, I mean Paragraph "12". That's why I typed "12".
WP: Paragraph "IX"?
Me:
WP: No paragraph numbering.
Me: Damn you!
WP: Resume list or start new list?
Me: Start counting at 12, you bastard!
WP: I think it's time to talk tabs here.
Me: You put that line back right now!
WP: Share and enjoy!

UPDATE:

WP: Mock me, will you? Well just try and find the hidden code! Thump on that delete button all you want, monkey boy, that paragraph ain't going nowhere!

Posted by Robert at February 23, 2006 10:34 AM | TrackBack
Comments

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! WordPerfect, why?

Posted by: Sadie at February 23, 2006 10:36 AM

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.

Posted by: jen at February 23, 2006 10:49 AM

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?

Posted by: beth at February 23, 2006 11:01 AM

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

Posted by: Babs at February 23, 2006 12:30 PM

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.

Posted by: rbj at February 23, 2006 01:39 PM

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. ;)

Posted by: Lysander at February 23, 2006 02:10 PM

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. ;)

Posted by: Margi at February 23, 2006 03:51 PM

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

Posted by: jen at February 23, 2006 04:14 PM

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).

Posted by: Quicquid at February 23, 2006 06:46 PM

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.)

Posted by: Chan S. at February 24, 2006 09:43 AM