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A recent Guardian article encouraging writers to abandon MS Word included a comment from a reader that read:
With 70+ books under my belt, I'm still using WordPerfect 5.1. Luckily there's an excellent website offering free software to enable one to use this DOS software with Windows 10: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/
If you follow that link you'll find a treasure trove of tools and advice that will help you run WordPerfect 5.1 on any Windows system, as well as Macs and Linux boxes. The author does note that it's much easier on 32 bit systems than 64 bit, but it can be done on either. There's even advice on making printers work.
(Of late I've been using the generally excellent FocusWriter full screen editor for distraction free writing, but if I can get WP 5.1 working....) (And, just for the record, Corel still sells Wordperfect Office.)
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Monday October 29 2018, @11:26PM (1 child)
You mean like when I'm trying to edit a numbered list in Word and it randomly scrambles fonts/bold, etc? This shit drives me insane. I usually wind up having to completely re-type it as copy/paste keeps the scrambled fonts and "paste special" doesn't even help. I usually write technical docs with the default fonts for the numbered lists and terminal fonts for examples or screenshots in between. Word always fucks this up. Usually I spend more time trying to get it to not look fucked up than I do actually writing it. Give me my reveal codes!!!!
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday October 30 2018, @06:45AM
I wouldn't know what M$ Word does to its documents but judging from the overall quality of the company's products I would expect many bad things from it, too, far more that the occasional troubles that WordPerfect makes. However, WordPerfect and M$ Word are not the only choices. Try upgrading to LibreOffice or Calligra [calligra.org] instead. They're both far better. Calligra is a little different though. If I were starting new I'd use that but LibreOffice is a little more similar to the mainstream word processors going back to WordStar.
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