What are some basic tips for someone who is converting from Word Perfect?
a. This will be a painful but not necessarily unrewarding experience. b. Compatibility “features” in Word will make things worse! Do not turn on any of the Word Perfect conversion features or compatibility features. They will make things very confusing because they won’t work like Word Perfect, but they won’t work like Word, either. This will mean that books will be wrong, help will be wrong, other users you ask will be confused. c. Word and Word Perfect look at a document in very different ways. Primarily, WP sees a stream of text that you do things to, like damming a river to change it’s course. You turn on Bold and everything from then on is Bold until you turn it off. Likewise with changing margins or tabs. Word Perfect inserts unseen codes (like printer codes in ASCII text files of old) to turn things on and off. You can see these codes by selecting “reveal codes.” (see g. below) Word sees documents as built up of compartments, one inside of the other. Characters fit into paragrap
