• gramie@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    WordPerfect’s “Reveal Codes” mode was the best feature a word processor ever had. You could see exactly what was causing your formatting problems, and surgically fix them. It’s like viewing the HTML of a web page.

      • gramie@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I don’t have a copy of Word handy, but I don’t think it is nearly as detailed. Wordperfect would show you all the formatting, but also marks for tables of contents and indexes, columns, images and other inserts, etc.

        • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Correct. Word’s was page and whitespace only, Wordperfect was nearer to markup, like HTML/XML, you could see bold, italic, font size changes, etc.