WordPerfect Upgrade
01-Dec-92 10:02:15
Sb: #79630-WordPerfect Upgrade
Fm: Pete Miles 100025,1055
To: Dominick J. Fontana 74766,2154
Dominick,
Sorry just can't let you get away with saying WPerfect makes other word
processors look like a joke. Really, nothing could be further than the
truth or indeed a travesty of the truth. Protext By Arnor Ltd of
Peterborough has so many features and abilities as to make the top of Dos
type packages over here. Thats against the Window style word pros such as
Prowrite etc.
For example just some of Protexts features include;
Pull doen menus with dialogue boxes and alerts, file selectors, mouse
dragging to set blocks, keyboard shortcuts, enhanced printing facilites
with support for dozenz and dozens of printers, always kept up to date;
mixing of different font sizes and proportional fonts. proportional
formatting whilst editing; side margin headers and footers independent of
main text font; all line and page breaks correctly shown on scree; tabs,
decimal tabs, centre tabs; inter paragraph space adjustment; auto formatted
footnotes; nespaper style columns and printing; multiplr file editing of up
to 36 file open, split screen editing, auto time save, virtually any screen
mode support including 50lines and large screen displays where available,
user defined characters, on screen bold italics and underlining, use of 13
different accents on any character; support for 27 languages at the last
count, 10 different keyboard layouts plus ability to define own keyboards
and symbols; index and contents generation; indexer marked words or
phrases, contents entries automatically taken from titles wrapped in
control codes and many other options for style of contents output.
Ummm…what else, oh yes, 110,000 word spell checker which is very fast
indeed and user defined dictionaries auto loaded on boot up; also anagrams,
thesaurus, spell check as you type
Mail merge and powerful programming language built in for personalised
letters and all types of correspondence. Program language includes read
data from files, use of variables read from keyboard input as well as
imbedded variables, display message
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