“WordPerfect’s more intuitive.” “Word doesn’t make any sense.” “Just show me what button to push.” The WordPerfect vs. Word wars have engendered a whole slew of myths about both word processors. Here, I bust a few of them.
Copying text from a WordPerfect document into Word can result in formatting disasters. Here’s how to avoid problems.
You know how I’m always telling you that the best way to get your old WordPerfect text into a new Microsoft Word document is to just copy it over? Well, that’s not always the case. Sometimes Microsoft Word doesn’t “translate” WordPerfect text into just the right Microsoft Word equivalent. A reader pointed out that doing a straight copy of WordPerfect footnotes into Word makes the numbering sequence go all wonky. Click the title above to find out how to copy those footnotes so you don’t spend forever fixing them. (Oh, and look at the very bottom of the tutorial. You’ll see a section that says “Members Only” which contains a link to a downloadable pdf version. If you don’t see the link, go to https://legalofficeguru.com/login and put in your user id [your email address] and password.)
A WordPerfect Lover asked me to go “back to the basics” with some tutorials on essential Word functions, so I’m starting that effort with a tutorial on how to print envelopes in Microsoft Word. Click the “read more” link for a complete illustrated tutorial.
If you’ve ever seen full-justified text in Microsoft Word that had a really stretched out last line in a paragraph, you don’t have to throw up your hands and convert it to left-justified text. There’s a quick and easy fix. Click through for the video demonstration.
Ever converted a WordPerfect document to Microsoft Word and discovered a watermark you couldn’t delete? Here’s how to fix it.
Having trouble converting your current WordPerfect documents into Word? Here are four ways to get your documents into the new format.
Word has a nifty replacement for WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes feature. Find out about it here.
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