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From: Tom Purser <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] WordPerfect
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:17:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000001c303d2$9f609bb0$8522fd0c@yourze8cxvr8tt>


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>As a side note -- especially to Bill --- 4 surveys over the years
>taken of professional genealogists by APG and BCG indicate that
>WordPerfect is used at least twice as much as Word; maybe more
>-- I'd have to dig out the results for an exact statistic.
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These professionals would be, in current parlance, "dead enders." WordPerfect was a great DOS product (my favorite), but it was slow and clumsy in its transition to Windows, and never recovered. As to Rich Text Format, since Microsoft developed it, Word would be expected to handle it correctly.


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