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[riktek]

We discussed briefly my idiosyncratic automation of WordPerfect from Access at the AE session a couple months ago. I simply don't automate Word. It never has been stable enough for documents more complex than simple memoranda. As I got more into programming, I realized its object model is preposterous for both representing and composing anything resembling a printed document.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

For what it is worth, I have to agree that managing Word from Access can be a bear sometimes. I've got a horror story in the Word forum about trying to generate a real Word document with indexes and indentation and format control plus a few other things.

 

[riktek]

I've had other fish to fry, development-wise, since proving the concept but WordPerfect actually is brilliant as a report writer for Access. One simply does a merge into what is essentially a template document.

I don't know that I'd necessarily draft documents programmatically with either app but it would be far easier in WP to tag particular blocks of text as headings, quotes, code, footnotes, endnotes, apply font formatting, in columns, apply heterogenous line formatting, revise tab stops dynamically, etc., not to mention defining subdocuments and concordances and incorporating them conditionally.

If you're endured that much brain damage attempting anything of substance with Word, I'd recommend WordPerfect for your next integration because it couldn't possibly be any worse.

 

[riktek]

I loved the Reveal Codes feature in the old WordPerfect! Ah it was only 35 years ago or thereabouts.

You can still love it, and use the present tense, because it continues to exist in the new/current WordPerfect.

 

[NauticalGent]

And here I thought that Word Perfect had gone the way of Paradox and Lotus

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Actually, I've used WordStar, WordPerfect, and Word, plus for a while the U.S. Navy was using EasyWriter. No disrespect to anyone who ever worked with ANY of those companies, but I liked WordStar the best. My wife and I put together our wedding programs, complete with graphics, using WordStar and a $10 disk of various graphic images and a $10 disk of fonts.

Wifey still uses Word Perfect. I've developed my hobbyist writing with Word (but with a lot of options either disabled or just never used.)