I love how in 1987 someone would be bored watching this even if they had WordPerfect. Now in 2023, we love watching this even though we don't use WordPerfect.
Oh the memories. I have spent many nights typing reports and assignments in WordPerfect. I loved it. It could do everything and it was rock solid. I never had a crash. The reveal codes was very useful for fixing mysterious formatting errors.
It was around the time of this video that I got my first home PC and had WordPerfect. The ease of it sped up my typing speed, to a point, that I ripped through typing out correspondence, and typing tasks, at such a prodigious pace that I almost crippled my hands back then.
I spent the year of 1994-95 working as tech support in an office, and part of my job was installing and upgrading WordPerfect, Lotus123, Lotus Amipro, etc - I'd be walking around the office with stacks of floppy discs bundled together with elastic bands LOL The staff in the office loved WordPerfect because they could work so quickly using all the keyboard shortcuts
There's some connections with WordPerfect and the presenter, Sharlene Wells. She was crowned Miss Utah in 1984, and became Miss America in 1985. WordPerfect was headquartered in Orem, Utah, when this video was produced.
I was already thinking, "Half the reason I kept watching this is because she is a babe!" Of course, the big thing left out was, "Now, you'll notice that when your document prints, it'll probably look nothing like what you saw on the screen (e.g., spacing, font, pagination, etc.)" In those days, we had to install individual printer drivers for each program and printer, so a document shown a certain way on the screen could look very different on any given printer. Thankfully Windows took care of that so all a program needs to do is talk to Windows and Windows translates too any installed printer. We've come a long ways!
This is the quintessential 1980's WordPerfect tutorial! See people, this is what the 1980's was all about. I'm sick of all these movies trying to recreate the 1980's, but always getting it wrong. Hell, she even has the classic shoulders! That's true 1980's.
I still use WordPerfect to this day for 90% of my documents. I do have Word but only to maintain compatibility where required with clients. WordPerfect cannot be matched and it hasn't unnecessarily fooled with the file format (like Word) to force upgrades. WordPerfect X6 is still compatible with WordPerfect 6.
I used WordPerfect on my Swan XT computer from 1989 to 2000. It got me through graduate school. The first time I used Word and Windows was in 2000, and I was surprised by how good they were with multitasking and instant spellcheck. I'm so used to Windows and Word now that I forgot what Dos and WordPerfect were like until seeing this video.
soundspur and others must be aware that by 1987 we had widely adopted 16/32 bit machines in homes and schools, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Apple Macintosh, all running GUIs and with mice! Also, Windows had been released back in 1985. It was the business world where text-heavy and mouse-free work on IBMs continued well into the 90s and even to this day. ;)
16-bit machines weren't "widely adopted at homes" in 1987. 8-bit computers ruled homes back then. 16-bit machines had just started arriving and most people still couldn't afford them. In fact one could argue that 16-bit home computers never really were THAT popular. There seems to be a consensus that for example Amiga sold a total of about 4 million computers overall, which really isn't THAT much. On the other hand, the 8-bit C64 sold several tens of millions of units, something like 20-30 million according to a few sources. And there were many, many other players in the 8-bit computer genre. Unlike the 16-bit world which only had a few players, which sold a modest number of units overall. The next big thing after 8-bit home computers really were Wintel-PCs at the early 1990s, and many people bought PCs to homes even before 1990s. There were some advantages to using text mode vs. graphics mode applications in the 1980s. For example the text mode provided sharper and cleaner text than a graphics mode could typically provide (on any computer). I guess speed and memory consumption are other benefits. So the lack of a popular GUI-based OS really didn't hurt IBM PC compatibles back then, BUT you could use Windows, GEM or other GUIs if needed for a specific use. GUIs were a NICHE back in the 1980s! Not really needed or wanted for general use. Windows 3.0 changed all that in 1990.
I actually remember watching this, my Dad did the upgrades from WordPerfect 4.2 to 5.0 to 5.1 to 6.0... The initial versions where on VAX and Unix, ended up using Word Perfect 3.0 on Macs for what is still a big multi national company.....To this day I still think WordPerfect is better than Word, Word Peeked at Word 97, anything after that was changes to windows not useful features of the application....
The mouse has its uses. But I was a fast typist and knew my function keys. I could do anything with WP. Now I have to stop typing just to pick up that mouse. And my speed is sacrificed.
The funny thing is that when people had keyboard driven apps like this they demanded GUI i and mouse support and when they got all the GUI stuff that can be fit into the screen they now want keyboard shortcuts driven apps.
On that note, it is worth mentioning that Word Perfect is still being rehashed for more modern operating systems. This however, is not however, the same wordperfect made by the people who made 5.1 and 6.0 etc, but it is useful with it's large thesaurus and other applications.
Just remember when you want to get the extra capacity 40MB hard drive, that MS-DOS will only recognize the first 30MB; which means you'll have to 'partition' that 40 MB hard disk with a "Drive D" designation for the other 10MB space.
In a WordPerfect table, I can't delete underline from certain text. I am able to delete underline from other text in the same document. I have already gone in "Underline," and unchecked "underline," but it keeps on coming.
Indeed they were! I was one of them as a working adult back then. I was a product of the prior era that were skilled with typewriters. As a working adult, PCs back then were daunting, and almost intimidating, when familiarizing oneself; as pressing the wrong keys could mess up the wording text, with not having much knowledge with how to undo the errors.
They failed to mention memory text. It remembered addresses etc and you’d type in the first line and it would all be there. I loved using Word Perfect RIP
I'm kidding :P. In fact, I use vim because this text editor is simple enough to use, and you can load this program in a ssh terminal. I like to use that, it is really ergonomic. Emacs is a multitask program, you can do a lot of things with these extensions.
I love how in 1987 someone would be bored watching this even if they had WordPerfect. Now in 2023, we love watching this even though we don't use WordPerfect.
I just got WP 2021 from a humble bundle. I'm Looking forward to checking it out!
But dang I feel old watching this.
I would use WordPerfect 7 but you can’t scroll with the mouse
Oh the memories. I have spent many nights typing reports and assignments in WordPerfect. I loved it. It could do everything and it was rock solid. I never had a crash. The reveal codes was very useful for fixing mysterious formatting errors.
It was around the time of this video that I got my first home PC and had WordPerfect.
The ease of it sped up my typing speed, to a point, that I ripped through typing out correspondence, and typing tasks, at such a prodigious pace that I almost crippled my hands back then.
I spent the year of 1994-95 working as tech support in an office, and part of my job was installing and upgrading WordPerfect, Lotus123, Lotus Amipro, etc - I'd be walking around the office with stacks of floppy discs bundled together with elastic bands LOL
The staff in the office loved WordPerfect because they could work so quickly using all the keyboard shortcuts
Don’t be scared it’s just like a typewriter, never thought I would hear that sentence in 2019. Love it!!
There's some connections with WordPerfect and the presenter, Sharlene Wells.
She was crowned Miss Utah in 1984, and became Miss America in 1985.
WordPerfect was headquartered in Orem, Utah, when this video was produced.
I was already thinking, "Half the reason I kept watching this is because she is a babe!" Of course, the big thing left out was, "Now, you'll notice that when your document prints, it'll probably look nothing like what you saw on the screen (e.g., spacing, font, pagination, etc.)" In those days, we had to install individual printer drivers for each program and printer, so a document shown a certain way on the screen could look very different on any given printer. Thankfully Windows took care of that so all a program needs to do is talk to Windows and Windows translates too any installed printer. We've come a long ways!
"wordperfect is about pressing certain keystrokes to do certain jobs".
still kind of true in 2018.
and in 2021
I had to learn this back in high school around 1993!
This is the quintessential 1980's WordPerfect tutorial! See people, this is what the 1980's was all about. I'm sick of all these movies trying to recreate the 1980's, but always getting it wrong. Hell, she even has the classic shoulders! That's true 1980's.
She looked 32 in this video, but she was 23. Now she is 54 but looks 45...
Amazing that "Start" and "Exit" were considered "features".
Back in the days when most people were new to PCs and to typing using a word processor instead of a typewriter.
Before that you often had to reboot your computer to unload a program. So yes, it was a very important and convenient feature to exit a program.
I still use WordPerfect to this day for 90% of my documents. I do have Word but only to maintain compatibility where required with clients. WordPerfect cannot be matched and it hasn't unnecessarily fooled with the file format (like Word) to force upgrades. WordPerfect X6 is still compatible with WordPerfect 6.
I used WordPerfect on my Swan XT computer from 1989 to 2000. It got me through graduate school. The first time I used Word and Windows was in 2000, and I was surprised by how good they were with multitasking and instant spellcheck. I'm so used to Windows and Word now that I forgot what Dos and WordPerfect were like until seeing this video.
soundspur and others must be aware that by 1987 we had widely adopted 16/32 bit machines in homes and schools, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Apple Macintosh, all running GUIs and with mice! Also, Windows had been released back in 1985. It was the business world where text-heavy and mouse-free work on IBMs continued well into the 90s and even to this day. ;)
16-bit machines weren't "widely adopted at homes" in 1987. 8-bit computers ruled homes back then. 16-bit machines had just started arriving and most people still couldn't afford them. In fact one could argue that 16-bit home computers never really were THAT popular. There seems to be a consensus that for example Amiga sold a total of about 4 million computers overall, which really isn't THAT much. On the other hand, the 8-bit C64 sold several tens of millions of units, something like 20-30 million according to a few sources. And there were many, many other players in the 8-bit computer genre. Unlike the 16-bit world which only had a few players, which sold a modest number of units overall.
The next big thing after 8-bit home computers really were Wintel-PCs at the early 1990s, and many people bought PCs to homes even before 1990s.
There were some advantages to using text mode vs. graphics mode applications in the 1980s. For example the text mode provided sharper and cleaner text than a graphics mode could typically provide (on any computer). I guess speed and memory consumption are other benefits. So the lack of a popular GUI-based OS really didn't hurt IBM PC compatibles back then, BUT you could use Windows, GEM or other GUIs if needed for a specific use. GUIs were a NICHE back in the 1980s! Not really needed or wanted for general use. Windows 3.0 changed all that in 1990.
I actually remember watching this, my Dad did the upgrades from WordPerfect 4.2 to 5.0 to 5.1 to 6.0... The initial versions where on VAX and Unix, ended up using Word Perfect 3.0 on Macs for what is still a big multi national company.....To this day I still think WordPerfect is better than Word, Word Peeked at Word 97, anything after that was changes to windows not useful features of the application....
My mum had those stickers and I wondered what they were for thanks for the upload!
Oh man.. I remember using WordPerfect at university.
I love CLI operating systems!
Reveal Codes forever!
Feeling like a programmer.
I miss those times, I was working for them :)
The mouse has its uses. But I was a fast typist and knew my function keys. I could do anything with WP. Now I have to stop typing just to pick up that mouse. And my speed is sacrificed.
But don’t modern WPs have shortcuts too?
The funny thing is that when people had keyboard driven apps like this they demanded GUI i and mouse support and when they got all the GUI stuff that can be fit into the screen they now want keyboard shortcuts driven apps.
I learnt this program in 1994. it was brilliant, but by then MS Word was what employers used in my town
this is when i learned word processing. it was major at the time.
Why am I even watching this.
On that note, it is worth mentioning that Word Perfect is still being rehashed for more modern operating systems. This however, is not however, the same wordperfect made by the people who made 5.1 and 6.0 etc, but it is useful with it's large thesaurus and other applications.
I love WordPerfect.
El guorperfe todavía lo usamos en Andalucía
Why would she not still be around? A young woman in '87 would have pretty good odds of still being around in 2020.
She was Miss America 1985.
I have WordPerfect Office X9 installed
"I used to fix all kinds of Office Machines, and I love my Corel X3. My computer would be useless without it!"
Hi guys.... After watching this video I consider upgrading to a computer with a Hard Disk system !!!!
Do you think it worth the extra money ?
The people that buy these things don’t ask about monies. Just stick to floppies, son. Leave the big boy stuff to the big boys.
Just remember when you want to get the extra capacity 40MB hard drive, that MS-DOS will only recognize the first 30MB; which means you'll have to 'partition' that 40 MB hard disk with a "Drive D" designation for the other 10MB space.
this is how i began
Say! [in an annoyance tone] My copy of WordPerfect didn't have the color-coded control keys back in the day.
In a WordPerfect table, I can't delete underline from certain text. I am able to delete underline from other text in the same document. I have already gone in "Underline," and unchecked "underline," but it keeps on coming.
LOVE THE HAIRDO!!!
She was Miss America literally a couple years before this, so she was on the ball fashion-wise for sure.
I'm surprised nobody's commented on the fact that the opening music either is or is a ripoff "I Can Do That" from A Chorus Line...
Nah. This thing will never catch on.
People were afraid of computers back then?
Indeed they were! I was one of them as a working adult back then.
I was a product of the prior era that were skilled with typewriters. As a working adult, PCs back then were daunting, and almost intimidating, when familiarizing oneself; as pressing the wrong keys could mess up the wording text, with not having much knowledge with how to undo the errors.
What font is that at 14:19?
IBM PC, monochrome CRT green screen monitor, DOS & WP - add Lotus 1-2-3 & dBASE II and you have business computing heaven.
sooo this comment section is actually a word processor?
whooa
Nostalgia
Oh memories! Lol
This is hilarious!!!
WordPerfect version 4.2 ?
They failed to mention memory text. It remembered addresses etc and you’d type in the first line and it would all be there. I loved using Word Perfect RIP
WordPerfect is still around as I just installed WordPerfect 2020 and i'm writing a book on it. It's still better than MS Word.
1987? She's typing in a 1989 date multiple times in the video (e.g. 16:11).
WordPerfect fans should definitely check out GNU Emacs.
Vim FTW. :P
Alexandre Bouvier
I don't see why anyone would want to switch from WordPerfect to a modal editor.
I'm kidding :P. In fact, I use vim because this text editor is simple enough to use, and you can load this program in a ssh terminal. I like to use that, it is really ergonomic. Emacs is a multitask program, you can do a lot of things with these extensions.
Ah a fellow member from the church of emacs. Hello my friend.
@@alexandrebouvier6220 :ZZ
Looool. I am really scared to use computer.
I want Word Perfect for my Windows 11 P.C.
Oh hail vi(m)!!!!
Typing is not one of the seven features.
I think I will stick to my typewriter :/
Tha saurus.
This makes me nervous!!!!!!!
Too long didn't listen. I'll stick to my typewriter tyvm.
Starting and exiting a program are considered "features" of a program? LOL wut
She's a babe! I want her now! wait....no
i'd bust
Ecebdi :))))
What a complicated, useless mess.
It was not meant for you. It was meant for intelligent people who aren't inbred, illiterate kids you know.
people coming from a typewriter (which my mom still owns - IBM electric w/ erase tape) this WordPerfect was a miracle.