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Article: Stepping outside of Microsoft Office; WordPerfect and the Web inspire independent thinking. (unique features found in non-dominant products) (Working On It) (Product Information)(Column)
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- Computer Shopper
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- September 1, 1996
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When I get depressed over the scorched-earth state of the software market, or see one of those software-bestseller lists that reads like Spam, Spam, bacon, and Spam (i.e., Microsoft, Microsoft, somebody's Windows antivirus package, Microsoft), I cheer myself up by murmuring two words: "Reveal Codes."
Reveal Codes, or Alt-F3 to intimates, is the command for WordPerfect's venerable split-screen view that shows not only document details such as spaces and carriage returns, but normally hidden formatting markers. It's a nerdy, nuts-and-bolts feature that can nevertheless prove invaluable to anyone who's ever, say, deleted a blank line between two paragraphs only to find ...