• @[email protected]
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    173 months ago

    WordPerfect’s “Reveal Codes” mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It’s like viewing the HTML of a web page.

    • @RestrictedAccount
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      43 months ago

      Word has that. It is a paragraph mark button.

      I use it all the time.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        I don’t have a copy of Word handy, but I don’t think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.

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          33 months ago

          Correct. Word’s was page and whitespace only, Wordperfect was nearer to markup, like HTML/XML, you could see bold, italic, font size changes, etc.