Maybe I'm just used to Word, but each little difference is really annoying me. All the Word shortcuts seem to make more sense - basic things I want to do are not possible or I have to switch them. Bullets/Numbering is stupid, footnote shortcut key needed to be inserted (which required far too many menu clicks to do), the track changes thing is way worse than Word, control+delete and control+backspace are not as intuitive, Word Perfect has already crashed on me a few times (maybe just my computer - but everything has run fast and fine), etc. Even the fact that the default cursor is ready to place a tabbed space wherever I click is stupid.
Oh, and it won't open separate documents in the taskbar like with Word (they're separate documents within the program). So, unlike with Word where I can alt-tab my way through open documents, I have to point and click at the bottom of the program. There's probably a way to switch but a) it should not be that by default and b) if I can't figure it out in a minute or so then it's stupid.
This is like the only-pro Microsoft thing I'll write - Word is far better than WordPerfect. I'm sure there are plenty of pros about WP that I don't know about, but for basic document stuff that I and everyone else at the office is doing, why don't we just use Word? Not to mention everyone else in the entire universe does - even if WP was slightly better than Word, that compatability issue alone should justify using Word.
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