... This has been discussed previously on this list. In fact, it is not even the best/easiest solution for coming up with an OS X-native version of WP. Corel...
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... Thanks, Ruth R. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... This is hard to understand. Corel makes money by developing and marketing software. If a market has been identified, and the company does not have a...
... I think that Corel, with WordPerfect, is sort of in the position that Apple was just before the release of the iMac (which was the product that started the...
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I thought I had addressed this, but perhaps my claim had been refuted and I missed it? Many years ago, Corel and Microsoft entered into a contract. I don't...
... If that's the problem why doesn't Corel sell WordPerfect to someone else. I mean the Mac, PC, Linux, Unix versions period. Since they want to go strictly...
... That is, of course, a compelling paranoid fantasy, but just about none of it is true. Development for WP/Mac was officially discontinued several months...
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... This has already been addressed on this list several times. Corel has indicated that they don't want to sell the WP/Mac product to someone else because...
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... I am not sure that is entirely correct. As some random readers may know, I was a frequent poster on the list comp.os.os2.advocacy. OS/2 was originally a...
... No, I don't have a high opinion of Microsoft at all. Quite the contrary. But as you said, there is *no* evidence that Microsoft had a hand in the ...
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In order to use WP Mac on my iBook G4, I have to zoom to 150% or more to be able to read the text without a magnifying glass. The problem I have run into...
... Gold key Another modifier key, like command, option and control. Its default mapping is to the 5 and 7 keys on the keypad, but it can be set to ...
Thanks for clearing that up--this was just hearsay which sounded plausible, but I had never looked into ay of it personally. I guess I don't quite see the "not...
... That's a display problem. Try turning Fractional Character Widths in the Page Setup dialog on or off, and see whether either improves spacing with the font...
... "wrong." Install this macro, naming it something like LetterSwitch: Raw Read (char;Left) Delete Right Left () Type Var (RawObject) Right () Display (On) ...
... Tossing your prefs file can help too. Quit WP, go to System Folder > Preferences > WordPerfect and toss e.g. "Preferences (GBR)", "Preferences (USA)"....
An interesting read is "The Microsoft File" by Wendy Goldman Rohm. Amazon has it in digital format; you might can find a real copy somewhere (I found it in our...
Whew! It's going to take me a while to figure this all out, but I didn't want to delay thanking you for such a thorough and prompt solution. Ruth R. ...
... You're most welcome. I should have organized my post better, to say it covered two independent things: the gold key, and the Letterswitch macro. This macro...
What you are talking about can be done with TypeIt4Me. I had it in OS 9 and have it in OSX. what you do is each time you discover something like that highlight...
For the many folks who have complained that they would like an alternative word processor to Microsoft Word, this news item is very interesting: Google, Sun To...
Randy B. Singer
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Oct 5, 2005 5:30 am
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You know the thing about it is, if WordPerfect really wanted to give Microsoft a run for its money, they could resurrect some of their shelved versions (Mac,...
I really didn't mean to stir up any mischief by my speculations about the Corel abandonment of WPMac. I too have been anxious about the switch to Intel, the...
... With difficulty! For some more on the future of the US fiber-optic network and distributed computing (now coming to be called "Google-mashing"), see ...
But only if all platforms could read files from all other platforms .......
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WP already was in that position, back when all platforms meant DOS, Mac, Next, Amiga, Atari etc. I don't know whether documents were cross-platform. IAC...
Thanks to John for the Letterswitch macro. I had tried a slightly different version of this a few years ago (some of the macro commands were different), but...
