Some private inquiries have been made about various features of
WordPerfect 9. I'll report the results of my investigation to the entire
list, since this is likely to be of interest to more than a few.
The help file for WordPerfect states, "By default, tabs are set at
regular intervals, positioned every one-half inch (1.25 cm) from the
left margin." Actually, the default was every 1.27 cm, which the user
must override on each document. Supposedly the user can create a
template in which the tabs are at his or her preference. However, I
could not make my chosen tab settings "stick" in a template I built;
they seemed to always revert back to 1.27 cm.
The margins are set at 2.5 cm by default and the "clickable"
increments/decrements are in 0.5 cm steps.
Line heights can be specified in centimeters but font sizes cannot. The
latter are in points only.
Overall, I am not terribly impressed with this product. It needed two
patches to allow it to be installed on the SuSE linux image (SuSE 7.0,
kernal 2.2.16) and that is true also for many other images, apparently.
Even then, the installation was somewhat lacking; it cannot be
customized beyond "full" or "minimal". By contrast, StarOffice installed
so easily as to be boring. Also, WordPerfect is another package that
seems to be self-impressed with its variety of bells, whistles, fonts,
clickart, etc. but suffers thereby in being slow, clunky, and inflexible
(e.g., tab defaults). I would put it in the same "bloatware" category as
MS Office. In two days, it crashed on me three times.
Jim
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