Also every single teacher was required to tell you that WordPerfect was better. Many teachers I had would teach that it had essentially a markdown view called ‘Reveal Codes’. It would let you exactly control and see the formatting of the document. It totally addressed the issues in Word of mucking up a document the moment you drop in an image.
Word afaik still doesn’t truly have such an ergonomic view. WordPerfect still maintains a niche in Legal and Education/Academia use because of the entrenched use of these formatting features.
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Screenshots of the versions I grew up with from https://winworldpc.com/
