Reply #127: That's about the same time I started learning "real" computers,

[Blue_In_AK]

that exact program. They had to drag me kicking and screaming into Windows. :) I still think WordPerfect is a far superior program to Word, at least for my purposes. I think I'm using version 9 now.

We've certainly come a long way, though, in the past 40 years. When I was first a clerical person back in 1968 we still had striking typewriters (although they were electric). The company I worked for got its first computer that year. It filled a whole room. My best friend and co-worker was a keypunch operator. Then came Correcting Selectrics, which were good, but the Mag Card ruled. Then came a whole series of word processors, proto-PCs and such -- too many to even remember. I think I got my first home computer around 1994.

I don't really understand how they work, but I can make them do what I want them to.