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Subject:Re: Does anyone still use WordPerfect? From:Mark Levinson <MarkL -at- gilian -dot- com> To:'TECHWR-L' <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:26:37 +0200
I've never understood why, since the invention of WYSIWYG,
anyone would want to reveal codes. In both Word and Frame,
even though I can't see codes, it seems pretty clear to me
what's italicized, what's indented, and what's underlined.
And if a paragraph is italicized, indented, and underlined,
I don't particularly care whether it got italicized
before getting underlined or underlined before getting
italicized.
So I must be missing something. What's the big advantage? Is it
the use of all kinds of codes in search-and-replace? In macros?
In version comparison? Or what?
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