SOFTWARE REVIEW

WordPerfect

Thousands of years ago, people put 100, the Zenith Z-100, and the Tandy 2000. Powerful their thoughts down on clay tablets. WordPerfect is actually a collection of capabilities It was inexpensive and permanent, several closely integrated programs, includ- and they never ran out of ink. However, they ing a bundled 30,000-word dictionary with -and some had to write quickly before the clay tablets room for 10,000 user-included words, and had a chance to dry. Later they wrote on extensive mathematical and merge func- annoyances sheepskin parchment-better all around, ex- tions. It provides automatic text reformat- cept for the sheep. Now everyone had time ting, automatic footnotes, proportional to compose ideas and write them more spacing, document encryption, and macro BY RICARDO BIRMELE clearly. However, mistakes were expensive; instructions. The package comes on two there were only so many sheep. non-copy-protected disks: one contains the During the Middle Ages, people used program and supporting files and the other feathers plucked from birds to write on contains the dictionary. A comprehensive, paper made from wood and cotton. It was well-written tutorial/reference-style manual a time-consuming process and hard on the is also included. local bird population. Then the typewriter Instead of extensive on-screen menus, appeared. People could write clearly and WordPerfect provides a keyboard template quickly, fix mistakes easily, and not bother and key stick-on labels for the various word- the local fauna. However, they were limited processing commands. It uses all the IBM's by paper size. keys, some in combination with the Control, Modern authors have the word processor. Alternate, and Shift keys. Fixing mistakes is no more than a small in- This word processor requires a minimum convenience; the bottom edge of the paper of 128K bytes of memory, two double-sided no longer exists. In fact, word processors disk drives, a color or monochrome display, are such a good idea that everyone is try- MS/PC-DOS, and a printer. ing to write one. So many exist now that you It also uses a programming concept called must choose the one that includes the fea- virtual memory. This means that your docu- tures you find most convenient. ment can be as large as your memory and the program can access any part of the THE BASIC QUESTIONS document without your having to actively WordPerfect, a capable and very easy-to-use reload it. However, if you were writing a piece of software, was first conceived by book you would want to break it into Alan Ashton, a computer science professor chapters. Scrolling from one end of a 100K at Brigham Young University, and Bruce Bas- byte document to the other, even if it is in tion, one of his graduate students. They memory, can take a while. received immediate feedback on the pro- gram by testing each new feature on the THE SCREEN secretaries who would be using it in their When you first boot up WordPerfect by jobs. When the IBM PC appeared, they pressing WP at the A> prompt, you see decided to implement WordPerfect on that an almost blank screen. In the bottom right machine. Unlike most other word-process- corner are the obligatory line and column ing programs (which were first written for position indicators (column in this case 8-bit machines and then scaled up to a called "Pos"), and two other bits of Ricardo Birmele (714 Cherry St.. 16-bit microprocessor), WordPerfect was information. Berrien Springs, MI 49103) is an scaled down to the 16-bit machine and thus "Doc" refers to WordPerfect's ability to consultant and independent computer can use its capabilities fully. edit two documents without going through technical writer. His other main interests are flying, nature. The package runs on the IBM PC (and its a save/reload process-you can go from one and his family. clones), the Victor 9000, the DEC Rainbow (continued)

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document to another by pressing Al- WordPerfect if either of these docu- document appears to the machine to ternate-F1 and answering the prompt- ments is still open. be a number of related documents, ing menu with a "1". It takes about two The other bit of information is "Pg", rather than one continuous piece of seconds with a hard disk, somewhat or page number. WordPerfect is a information. You can print any one of longer with a floppy. You cannot quit page-oriented word processor; the these related documents indepen- dently of the rest. One of the best ideas in Word- Perfect is "what you see is what you get:' In order to insert commands to 0 boldface, underline, or center text, you press a function key and the text This is all actual picture of how WordPerfect looks on the screen appears bold (highlighted), under- lined, or centered. Nothing in this pro- you ^re in the docume,,t. gram interferes with your thoughts (see photo I). If you need to see the gold, underlining , or both appears right on your screen as well as hidden formatting commands, you use the reveal functions command (Shift-F2). One caution: because of the map(gin settings (thiS Cole hdS heen changed way in which the character-attribute to 20 and 68). bit for underlining is manipulated, any characters underlined on a mono- aw""Affl-IN In chrome monitor will appear in blue on a color monitor; if fed by a color video drive board, they will appear in reverse video on the monochrome monitor. WordPerfect also lets you select in which colors you would like your background and text to appear. You Photo 1: An example of WordPerfect's "what you see is what you get" screen. can change color combinations be- fore starting your word-processing session by entering WP/S (Word- Perfect, slash, System) from a DOS prompt. (This is how you change basic system default parameters from one session to another.) With IBM's built-in international/ mathematical-character screen-map- ping capability, you can easily set up WordPerfect for French, German, Ox-

Greek and math syrhols for equations, ford English, or mathematical Greek (see photo 2). Screen mapping refers „Z -, to "what you press is what you should m - (i - - ) me , R g R Rn ( 4 E = mct get;' unless previously redefined. This cz pT PT PT means that if you need an A-umlaut you should get one. One method of adding accents to your printed text is with overstrike. This involves typing a letter, A for example, then Shift-F5 (overstrike), and finally an accent, such as a double quotation mark for an umlaut.

FORMATTING All word processors get your thoughts Photo 2: Some of the foreign characters and mathematical symbols down on paper. The best ones make available with WordPerfect. (continued)

278 BY TE • DECEMBER 1984 AT A GLANCE

Name WordPerfect

Type Word processor

Manufacturer Satellite Software International 288 West Center St. Orem, UT 84057 (801) 224-4000

Computer IBM PC (and compatibles), Victor 9000, DEC Rainbow 100, Zenith Z-100, Tandy 2000

Other Versions Personal WordPerfect, also for FIND (SEC) SAVE (SEC) the IBM PC, and WordPerfect 50 50 . Jr. for the PCjr

Disk Format 40 40 MS/PC-DOS 2.0, double- sided, double-density 30 30 Language 24.9 8088/8086 assembly language 20 20 15.7 Documentation 9.9 10 10.7 Loose-leaf manual with index 10 10 in a three-ring binder

Price 0 $495

SCROLL (SEC) SEARCH (SEC) 50 , 50 54 44.9 41.2 40 40

30 30

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10.5 10 10

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WORDPERFECT VOLKSWRITER ® WORDSTAR 3.3

These graphs show the timing results of per- are for WordPerfect, Volkswriter, and WordStar forming various standard word-processing version 3.3. The tests were performed using an functions using a 4000-word text file. The times IBM PC with monochrome monitor.

DECEMBER 1984 • B Y T E 279 Circle 74 on inquiry card. COMPUTER BROKERAGE REVIEW: WORDPERFECT SERVICES We do the Shopping for You" 800/233-1147 your thoughts look good. WordPerfect file is a similar Home, Home, and up TX Residents formats headers and footers: up to arrow combination. 713/240-5515 four of either or two of each. It also You scroll up and down with the "n" 4242 BLUEBONNET • STAFFORD, TX 77477 displays the current output page function. When you press Escape, you number by including a Control-N in see "n =" at the bottom of your M O NITOR S the header or footer text. screen. The program is asking how reen m er ...... Direct IBM Plug In Footnotes are taken care of almost many lines you want to jump at a 115 Green/116 Amber ...... 125/130 automatically. Superscripted numbers time-the default is eight. You can 411 RGB-IBM Look Alike ...... 365 and formatting are also taken care of High Res/With mono switch change this temporarily by entering a 425 RGB-IBM Look Alike ...... 465 within the program by using com- number after pressing Escape and Super High Res/With mono switch mand keys. All you have to do is enter more or less permanently by using AMDEK New Color Monitors ...... CALL 310 Direct IBM Plug In ...... CALL text. If you need to insert a footnote the WP/S command. You can also ac- 300 Amber/Green ...... CALL between two previously written foot- tivate word-left and word-right func- notes, WordPerfect renumbers all of tions by pressing Control-left arrow TECMAR All Boards ...... SAVE$$$ them for you. and Control-right arrow, respectively, TAXAN Monocard with Parallel Port ...... 199 Color Graphics Card ...... 165 Another formatting feature is Word- as well as line-left (Home-left arrow) PERSYST ...... CALL Perfect's block-handling facility. To and line-right (Home-right arrow) APSTEK HandiOne Plus/1 yr. warranty .. .195 define a block, or discrete portion of functions. Same features as Six Pac Plus But Much Low- er Priced Bare Memory Board 256K .... 120 text, you position your cursor at its Finally, you may go directly to any beginning, press Alternate-0 (zero), document page by pressing Control- OKIDATA All Models ...... • SAVE$$$ then position your cursor at its end. Go To (the number pad 7, or Home, EPSON All Models ...... BEST PRICE Then you may print it, make it bold, key). PANASONIC 1090 ...... LOWEST PRICE 1091 ...... CALL underline it, save it to disk, append Setting margins and tabs is a little TOSHIBA P1351/P1340 ...... SAVE$$$ it to an existing file, delete it, cut or indirect. First press Shift-F6 (set for- TI855 ...... CALL copy it, or convert it to upper- or NEC LQ PRINTERS ...... CALL mat). On the bottom line you see an DIABLO LQ PRINTERS ...... CALL lowercase. If you cut a block uninten- options menu: Set Format? 1 Tabs; 2 TTX LO PRINTER w/Pin Feed Guide ...... 370 tionally, you can recall it unless you E=Tabs; 3 Margins; 4 Spacing: 5 H- STAR PRINTERS All Models ...... SAVE$$$ have defined another block in the Zone; 0. Tabs and margins are both 11 meantime. ANCHOR MARK XII ...... 245 numbered from the absolute left posi- MARK X ...... 105 You can place page numbers almost tion on the screen. In other words, if MARK VI I ...... 89 anywhere on your page-centered, on your left margin is 10, you will see HAYES ...... CALL the right or left, or on the top or bot- your text lined up at the tenth char- 1 1' tom. You can also alternate your page acter position from the left side of TANDOM TM100-2 ...... 195.00 TEAC HALF HEIGHT FLOPPY ...... 175.00 numbers from right to left as you your screen. If you set a tab stop at 1' INTERFACE Internal 10 Meg ...... CALL would find in a book. You can force position 15, this tab stop is actually External 10 Meg/Will boot from Disk SAVE$$$ a page break or reset margins or spac- five columns to the right of that 1 THE VERY BEST PRICES ing at any time. If you later change margin. This gets confusing if you IBM PC All Configurations ...... CALL your mind, WordPerfect will automat- decide to change the left margin, for COLUMBIA ...... SAVE$$$ ically reformat your document. You example, to 5. Your tab is still set at CAMPAQ ...... CALL can also suppress the printing of page 15, which means it is now 10 columns MEM ORY CHIPS 64K D-RAM KITS ...... 43.00 attributes, such as page number, on to the right of your margin. ACCESSORIES any page. It is a good idea to set up a series SWITCH BOXES Parallel 2/3 Position .. 96/109 of tab stops across the width of your Serial 2/3 Position .... 66/84 CONTROLLING THE DOCUMENT screen. Tab positions are available DESKTOP PRINTER STANDS Lg./Sm. .. 29/24 DUST COVERS ...... CALL When you type a document using through column 158 with regular tab DISKBANK MEDIA MATE 5 ...... 12 WordPerfect, what you see is what settings, and farther beyond to col- Holds 50 Diskettes you get. A number of different umn 2 50 by using E-tabs. Unfortu- CABLES IBM PARALLEL ...... 19 PRINTER BUFFERS ...... CALL methods will get your cursor from one nately, to set tabs with WordPerfect DISKETTES Nasua DSDD ...... 17 end of a document to the other. you must stop what you are doing, SURGE SUPPRESSORS /All Types . BEST PRICE Along with the normal Page Up and figure out where you want a tab, then TERMS • We guarantee our products against Page Down keys, you have single keys set the tab stop. You cannot merely Manufacturer's defects. • Add 3% for shipping for screen up (the number pad --- indicate that you want a tab in the col- charges. $5.00 minimum. • Checks: Allow two weeks for clearance. • Texas orders +6% Sales key) and screen down (the number umn where your cursor is. Tax. • C.O.D.'s payable w/certified check, pad "+" key). To get to the bottom of Spacing in increments of half a line money order or cash. your document from anywhere in the is accomplished from the same op- Availability and prices subject to change. file, you press Home twice and then tions menu as tabs and margins. The IBM is a registered trademark. down arrow. Getting to the top of a (continued) APPROVEO CORPORATE ACCOUNTS WELCOME. J

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H-Zone on that menu refers to the hot computer using WordPerfect to an- printer. If your particular printer is not zone, an area around the right and left other using a different word-process- on the list, you can easily set it up with document margins that is used to ing program, or sending a file elec- the included Printer.EXE program. determine hyphenation and word tronically, such as through electronic Printing column output is one of wrap. When a single word in your text mail. WordPerfect's strong points. You can goes beyond the hot zone, you are WordPerfect supports MS/PC-DOS define from two to five columns, prompted to position the hyphen 2.0's tree structure very well. You can spaced any way you like. If you want where you want it and then press change the default directory or drive even spacing, WordPerfect asks how Escape. You can hyphenate your text at any time. When you call them up, many spaces to put between the col- as you enter it or use the WordPerfect the program displays disk-file direc- umns and then calculates each col- option to leave out the hyphenation tories alphabetically, including file size umn's right and left margin. You can help. in bytes and time and date informa- also break columns up on a page, tion. You can call up a list of files from such as when you want a headline FILING THE DOCUMENT within a directory with a wild-card and then text in columns, as in galley Once you write a document, you will search-using the asterisk to repre- sheets. want to save it. WordPerfect's file man- sent any character or characters-and Finally, WordPerfect supports true agement offers several options con- then retrieve, rename, delete, or print proportional spacing under program veniently grouped together. them. WordPerfect also lets you save control. It uses WordPerfect's auto- The system commands or file utili- a file encrypted under a password. matic incremental spacing com- ties include commands to save, re- mands, which you define when you name, or delete a file, check its size PRINTING set up your printer. If your printer sup- in bytes, and display the space avail- WordPerfect does all its printing in the ports super- and subscripts, Word- able for file storage on your disk. background, working from a queue, Perfect can use that capability for You can also save documents as while you edit another document on footnotes and mathematical formulas. straight ASCII (American Standard the screen. You have full access to all Code for Information interchange) the word processor's functions while MATH, MACROS, AND MERGE text files. This is a savings because printing is going on, though they can WordPerfect boasts some of the most you don't have to buy a dedicated run a little slower than usual. extensive math capabilities of any ASCII text editor to build program The program works with almost any word-processing program I know. It files for compilation. WordPerfect printer available, serial or parallel. has the normal arithmetic functions does the job just as well. It also There are 32 types of printers already (addition, subtraction, multiplication, simplifies transferring files from one defined, including the old faithful line and division) and more. While it is not a spreadsheet in the sense that you know electronic spreadsheets, you can perform the common arithmetic operations between columns (and rows) and display the result in a dif- 101-IN DIREW ferent column (or row) as shown in photo 3. FrMENEEME= You can use math functions almost 5 Tables anywhere in your document. A math 20 Chairs 17 Tablecloths section can extend over page bound- aries to column 2 50 and can contain both numbers and text. This makes putting together a professional- looking balance sheet or financial report easy. As a matter of fact, 5 Tables Satellite Software International claims 17 to use the math functions included in Tablecloths KREJEMME 43 Dinner Napkins WordPerfect to store its own monthly accounts. Often in word processing you need Doc 1 P9 7 Ln 1 Pas 18 to do the same thing over and over again . WordPerfect can be taught to remember a series of keystrokes, file them, and retrieve them as needed. Photo 3: An example of the row and column calculations present in WordPerfect. (continued)

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For example, I have defined a macro tion, and when the search fails, you treated as a record, and you can called "envelope:' When I write a want to perform another. repeat any field in the record within business letter using the normal busi- One of the most work-intensive the body of your letter as often as you ness form of address at the top, the functions of a word processor is wish, personalizing it with the ad- macro almost automatically writes writing a form letter. Putting the dressee's name or city, for example. that address on an envelope for me. names and addresses in correct order WordPerfect handles the merge in You can chain macros under Word- and repeating a name or part of an the following way. First, you create the Perfect. This may occur conditionally address within the body of the letter file (name and address records) and depending on the success or failure is difficult with some word processors, save it; then you enter your form let- of a search operation. It may also oc- but not with WordPerfect. The pro- ter. When it is finished, you initiate the cur repetitively, as when you search gram treats each line of the address- merge (Shift-F9) and WordPerfect ex- for a phrase and each time the phrase name, street, city, zip code-as a field. ecutes it. When the merge is com- occurs you want to perform one ac- A complete name and address is (continued)

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plete, you can print the letter. beginning with those letters.) If the up area until you have viewed three You can use this same file of names program finds an error, it is not im- and a half more screens. It doesn't and addresses to print out mailing mediately corrected. Rather, the pro- take that long to get through the labels-either one-up (a single strip of gram asks if you would like to look up screens, and the words are alphabet- labels, one label across) or several the word in a list of suggested spell- ized and easy to find, but it is still an across on a sheet of labels (using ings or correct it yourself now. While unnecessary annoyance. WordPerfect's column printing capa- this method more or less forces you bilities). to learn the correct spelling of the SUMMARY words you use most often, it would be I have been using WordPerfect and its SPELLING DICTIONARY more efficient to have the program of- updates almost every day since I WordPerfect's spelling dictionary fer you a list of words from which you bought version 2.3 in the spring of comes bundled with the program and could select the one you want. 1983, and I have found it to be a is almost integral to it, but it is only As you check the spelling of words capable, easy-to-use word processor. 30,000 words long with room for an in a document and the dictionary Like all software packages, however, additional 10,000 user-installed comes to one it does not know, you it has both good points and bad words. It also suffers somewhat from have the options of continuing, up- points. its implementation. dating the word into the dictionary, On the plus side, because it has The dictionary lets you check the correcting the word, or looking it up. been scaled down (rather than up) to spelling of the current word, all the This brings me to another problem. the 16-bit microcomputer, Word- words on the current page, all the If you need to look up the word "dis- Perfect can fully use the capabilities words in the current document, or a armed;' for example, it appears in the of the IBM PC. Also, its use of virtual specific word or template you supply. first dictionary lookup screen for memory lets your document be as (Template refers to a prefix, followed words starting with "dis." However, large as your memory with all parts by a dash, that retrieves all words you cannot exit the dictionary look- (continued)

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of it accessible to the program at any time without action on your part. The "what you see is what you get" ap- proach lets you see bold, underlining, centering, and margins on the screen as they will appear in the printed copy. You can select your own screen colors, both background and text. And if you don't like the ones you chose yesterday, you can change them today. Finally, you can use Word- Perfect both as a word processor and as a program text editor because of its ability to save documents as straight ASCII text files. This saves you both money and the time, effort, and confusion involved in switching back and forth between editors. On the minus side, the character- attribute bit for underlining is manip- ulated differently for monochrome and color monitors (this might not be a problem, depending on your appli- cation). The tab stops are established relative to a zero screen position, so if you change your left margin, your tabs all change with respect to that margin. Setting tabs in WordPerfect is a chore because you must stop what Complacency or curiosity? you are doing, figure out where you want a tab, and then set it. Also, the Move your children away from the from Washington, our nation and passive nature of TV and turn them the world. You also get current spelling dictionary is only 30,000 on to the excitement and fun of in- schedules and rates from the Official words long with room for an addi- teractive learning with Dow Jones Airline Guide, Comp-U-Store, a tional 10,000 user-defined words. If it News/Retrieval. convenient shop-at-home service; does find an error, WordPerfect asks You probably thought Dow Jones Cineman Movie Reviews; sports if you want to look up the word in a News/Retrieval only provided busi- highlights, weather reports and MCI list of suggested spellings or correct ness and financial information. Mail-the new electronic mail ser- it yourself, rather than correcting the Wrong. We've got something of vice that lets you send letters to word automatically. And, no matter value for the whole family. anyone, anywhere, even if he or she where you find the correct spelling for With our 20-volume, 30,000 ar- doesn't own a terminal. ticle Academic American Encyclo- Overall, you'll find a wide variety your word, you must continue to pedia, Dow Jones News/Retrieval of high-quality data bases accessible peruse any additional screens con- will pique your children's curiosity quickly and easily with most per- taining words that meet your search about the world and help them de- sonal computers. criteria. Editor's note: Satellite Software velop new skills. The information To get your children involved, International has scheduled version 4.0 of they need for school is easy to ac- excited and turned on to the fun of WordPerfect for release about the time of cess, always up-to-date, always learning, turn them on to Dow Jones publication of this article. It might solve ready. And kids love to use it! News/Retrieval. There are timely news reports some of the problems mentioned by the author. I All in all, I am extremely impressed DOW JONES with WordPerfect. Its powerful capa- bilities far outweigh the problems mentioned. As I said at the beginning of this article, you should choose the Copyright © 1984 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dow Jones News/Retrieval° is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. word processor that includes the fea- tures you find most convenient. My FOR FULL DETAILS, CALL 800.345.8500, EXT. 5 choice is WordPerfect. n Alaska, Hawaii and foreign, call 1-215-789-7008, Ext. 5 288 B Y T E • DECEMBER 1984 Circle 132 on inquiry card. Circle 333 on inquiry card. -.