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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brudewollen" data-source="post: 508231" data-attributes="member: 2274">Old Word Perfect versions"I use Word 2000 and convert to rtf so that I don't have to tailor it to each publisher's preferences. I once worked for a company that INSISTED that I use Wordperfect; great program for formating because you can see all of your codes, but terrible when it comes to stability and reliability."Older iterations of Word Perfect were much more stable, my favorite remains 6.x -  it had some features I still wish were in Word.  Even today it's probably a pretty damn near complete word processor.  I used 7.x a lot when my old company upgraded and it was very problematic.  I heard later versions were likewise.  I also agree that being able to see all of the print codes was really, really nice.  Made editing a final project much easier and the end result very clean, codewise.  You never had any sudden surprises when some code you thought you'd erased three versions ago suddenly reformats entire paragraphs of your work.  I still have problems with Word where certain formatting elements just don't want to get erased and keep reasserting themselves or simply won't go away, even when deleating large blocks of a page.</blockquote>