Schroyer, Dale wrote:
>
>         Reveal codes is nothing compared to using the little paragraph
> symbol in word. This does the same function as reveal codes


Sorry Dale but it is -not- ANYthing like reveal codes.  The paragraph
mark only stores info about the paragraph itself not about individual
words within the paragraph.

To illustrate the point:
Go in to the middle of a paragraph in a Word document and select
2,3, or a dozen words.  Now turn on bold, then turn on underlining,
now turn off bold, now turn on italics, and then turn off underlining.

ALL those codes are -=STILL=- embedded in the document because you can
use the undo button to backup through all those changes.  But there is
NO way to see all the crud that is hidden in there.

In WordPerfect, I can turn on the reveal codes feature and then remove
all that junk -- or remove some of it and turn other stuff back on.

Does all this make one product better than the other? Not really.
As I've said before, I think Word is a great office tool for grinding
out business correspondence.  But WordPerfect is much better suited to
the needs of a creative person.  It is much easier to design and create
a stylized restaraunt menu using WP than Word.  And Word is much more
friendly when it comes to mail merging.

In the long run, I think BOTH products are over-bloated "do-it-all"
monsters that have more bells and whistles than most of us will ever
use.

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Jim Meagher
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