>I'm with you. I'm always appalled that some IT guy decides that an office should standardize on Word, when the office personel already uses and prefers WordPerfect. My (short-lived) predecessor here made that decision and was crucified for it

I have seen jokers like this come and go.

>I'm a die-hard WordPerfect fan (even though Corel has ruined the program I still prefer it to Word).

My history with WP/Word goes something like this.

1)Summer job as student. Support and use WP. Find it odd but macros powerful.

2)Next summer job, use an early version of Word. Happy that things print out (for the most part) like how I have them on the screen. Features just aren't there but then again, I am mostly types notes to myself, memos, user manuals and the occassional letter to a vendor. Now solidly in Word camp

3) Series of summer jobs and then contracts after University. Use a mix of both. I use WP only grudgingly. A distinct lack of versions of WordPerfect past 5.1 and a windows version. This becomes more glaring year after year.

4)1994 I start working at the hospital. They are in a time warp. WordPefect 5.1, Lotus for Windows and Harvard Graphics. Very difficult to get the IS to order the Windows version (6.x) of WP. Microsoft Office only exists on site because it is smuggled in. User risk losing support for their pcs. Needless to say my fondness of MS Office grew because it was love unrequited. The following year the IS department forbids Win95 as a desktop OS. A statement that they were forced to repeal within 1 month.

5)1996 Finally MS Office is available but "not officially supported". It took until 1998 before it acheived dual status with WP (et al). In 1996 our dept jumped with great enthusiasm (all but 1 person) into MS Office.

Needless to say, I am a Word/Excel fan.

>I can't live without reveal codes. Word always decides to change the formatting and it becomes impossible to get it back the way I want it.

I had forgotten about this great feature. If something is really screwed up in your document and you can't figure out why the 3 row of the table has two lines, you just hit "reveal codes" and delete the offending code.