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It has been a while, but I remember my first experience with WP on Windows as not very good. I am a slow typist, and could get ahead of the cursor: it always felt spongy.

Last winter I had a legal secretary ask me to help her convert a document to PDF. Gee, Molly, I said, Word 2010 and up saves PDF as one of its built-in options. No, she said, this is WordPerfect. She then demonstrated to me how the table layout was slightly munged when she converted it to Word. She has since retired, but I bet her old boss hasn't given up WP.




> Last winter I had a legal secretary ask me to help her convert a document to PDF. Gee, Molly, I said, Word 2010 and up saves PDF as one of its built-in options. No, she said, this is WordPerfect.

She must have had a very old version of WordPerfect. It's been able to not only create but edit PDFs for years, much longer than Word.




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