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From: The Real Bev on 12 Jun 2008 15:05
David Lubell wrote:

> One of the reasons I prefer WordPerfect to Word is the ability in WP to
> reveal formatting codes. I've just discovered a program, CrossEyes
> (http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html), that allows one to
> do the same thing in Word as in WordPerfect. So far as I can tell, this
> is not a function available in OpenOffice. Could it be added?

I too would desperately like to see such a thing added to Open Office.

I've been using a variety of word processors back to the days when you
had to run Wordstar on the same 360K floppy your documents were located
on. I've also been a heavy user of Ventura Publisher, and then
WordPerfect. For long documents I loved VP, but I liked WordPerfect 5.2
(that was the last DOS version, right?) better -- certainly more
versatile and much more user-friendly about saving documents.

The ability to get in and FIX the codes when you needed to was one of
the best things WP offered. I liked the way WordStar did it better, but
that was a LONG time ago and I gave it up for WordPerfect because WP
could handle proportional fonts before WordStar could :-)

Removing the formatting is NOT the same as being able to actually see it.

It may be noted that the only reason I'm NOT using the latest WP for
linux (old, but who cares?) is that I can't orint directly to my cheesy
Samsung laser printer with it -- I have to write a separate postscript
file and then print that file.

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Cheers, Bev
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