What a difference a decade makes! Ten years ago, the MS-DOS version of WordPerfect was
the word processing program in the vast majority of offices around the world. Microsoft’s
upstart Word for Windows was making inroads, but convincing WordPerfect diehards to
convert meant that Word had to flawlessly handle WordPerfect files and provide plenty of
online help for people who had memorized every esoteric keyboard shortcut in the
WordPerfect interface.
Today, Microsoft Word is the top dog in word processing, and Word 2003 reflects that real-
ity. Competitors, including WordPerfect for Windows and OpenOffice, ...
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