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Skriven 2006-12-24 11:51:25 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25682 av JEAN PARROT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Word vs WP.
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In article <27645$WIN95@JamNNTPd>,
 "JEAN PARROT -> ALAN ZISMAN" <1:123/140> wrote:

 JP>      Hello Alan, nice talking to you !

 AZ>> User friendly is all in the 'eye' of the beholder... you find WP
 AZ>> 'friendlier'-- other people, who started out and grown accustomed to
 AZ>> MS Word, find that 'friendlier'.

 JP>          Another way of saying my mantra... it is all in what one is
 JP>     used to. I know Word well enough that I never even think of using
 JP>     any other WP ( word processor ). I got nursed on the C=
 JP>     Speedscript, simple and it did the job. If only before it got
 JP>     parked, it could have been teamed with a good printer, I might
 JP>     still be on it.

 AZ>> morphed into Lotus Word Pro -- still included with Lotus Smart Suite
 AZ>> which for a long time was bundled or offered for free to Thinkpad
 AZ>> owners-- most of whom ignored it.

 JP>          I would gleafully delete all Lotus stuff even before trying to
 JP>     get any Thinkpad going. I thought that if it were free, the catch
 JP>     could be that it was not worth it. Lotus was replaced by Office of
 JP>     any ilk.

My 1993 review of Ami Pro 3.0 seems to be one of the few web links for
that software-- as a result, I regularly get emails from people who have
continued to use it while upgrading their hardware and operating systems
to modern versions. (I liked AmiPro better than the 1995 WordPro that
replaced it-- though WordPro, as a native Win9x program, had long file
name along with real-time spell checking... my nomination for the most
valuable word processor improvement of the past dozen years).

You may find a coupon among the IBM paperwork offering a free copy of
SmartSuite if you phone a customer support number-- if so, you might as
well phone and see if you can still get your copy; even if you never
install it, you can give it away.

-- 
- email: alan (at) zisman (dot) ca
- website: http://www.zisman.ca

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