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At one point, back in the late 1970s (????) I was using WordPerfect, and then moved to MS Symphony for a while... I don't remember exactly but somewhere along the line Word was split off of Windows...
I just tried to look at what version of Windows I have (11) I think, but that dumped me into a Gmail killer routine.
Gwen Brown
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WP for DOS
Because WP for DOS was not designed for use with a mouse, both hands stayed on the keyboard. Once you learned all the function keys — and I had lots of experience with which to do that — a touch-typist could be blazingly quick. That was, in fact, the last program I used that allowed me to type faster than I can think. That particular ability, however, is only useful for typing something that’s already been written. And who does that anymore? :)
Emma
Remember
Remember WP, I still use it. Though that is now called Corel. I miss the easy commands. Some translate to Word, but working on advanced degrees requiring all submissions to be in Microsoft Word forced me to make the change. Oh well, I still remember Professional Write too though, but that is back a few decades.
Melissa
Word what?
I liked word star best.
BAK 0.25tspgirl
for me
the first WP software i used, back around 1985, was Lotus 123 on what we would now consider to be a very clunky desktop that was really just a portal to the mainframe. I've never been a fast typer, i still pretty much use one finger although at one time i did get to two hands and four fingers, anyhow, that set up was so slow that even i could type whole sentences but then have to wait for everything to catch up!
Over the years i've used all sorts of WP software, some a lot better than others, currently i'm using Libre, not my favourite but generally it works, this version is a lot better than the previous time i used it. In essence there was no problem with that first WP software but MS et al want to make money so they 'develop' new versions with new stuff that we didn't know we needed and usually don't want, make it incompatible with anything else and sell it to us again and so on, on repeat. Businesses mostly get little choice in the matter, home users though do have some discretion even if most new machines arrive loaded with MS software, vive la differance!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Old tech
Back in the fifth grade, my schoolteacher despaired over my handwriting. That issue got solved with my parents' purchase of an Apple ][e, The Incredible Jack word processor, and ye olde dot matrix printer.
My weekly 'spelling stories' (requiring use of every word in the week's spelling list) suddenly went from one page handwritten to 2-3 pages typed...