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		efitz 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple squandered the Holy Grail I loved WP5.1 for DOS because of one feature: "show codes" - it made it trivial to understand why the formatting looked the way it did, and to fix formatting problems. Other than that it was not outstanding software :-) I never used Word in the DOS days so I can't compare, but it was obvious that Word for Windows was written natively for Windows and it "felt" much more natural in the Windows of that time.

ghaff 11 months ago [–]

Neither WordPerfect nor WordStar even connected for me. No disrespect for anyone for whom they did.

Never really loved Word for Windows to be honest, though I used it a lot over the years. Though liked the DOS version.

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