GUEST,pattyClink

As I noted, it was a "tweak" not a slam.

If you are familiar with WordPerfect, and it meets your needs, then there is no real reason for you to switch.

Having known a rather large number of professional wordprocessing workers who have used both, I have met many among job-shop/contract workers who might be sent to one "typing pool gulag" one month and to a different one the next, and must be able to use both/either program competently and interchangeably.

Among those who have learned to use both WordPerfect and Word, professionally and interchangeably, with competence in both, I have NOT MET any who continue to prefer WordPerfect.

It is the WordPerfect users who continually claim "you can't do that in Word" or "it's harder to do that in Word." Both claims are FACTUALLY FALSE. You may claim "I know how to do that in WordPerfect and I'd have to learn a different method in Word," and I have no argument with you.

It is FACT that there are many people who've learned "to do that" in both programs and who have continued to use both programs professionally when/as required. These people consititently, uniformly, and inavariably prefer Word when they have a choice between the two.

This does NOT MEAN that I'd recommend that you change programs if what you're using does, for you, what you need to do.

[Quite possibly the situation may change soon. Having just acquired a new (laptop) computer running Vista, with the newest Office 2007 installed, I find they've removed, disabled, or hidden many of the most useful (to me) Word features, so I'll have let you know later whether the "new Word" remains useful for anything.]

John