Word sucked from the beginning and still sucks. I am stuck with it but I hate it (and Office 2010) with a personal passion.
WordPerfect WAS better. MUCH MUCH better.
I don’t know what that says about the merits of the case, but it is true.
You are correct. Wordperfect was awesome. Word tried to emulate a typewriter, along with all of the limitations of dealing with one character at a time. Wordperfect threw away the typewriter model and managed the entire document with codes. I still have my WP12 disks, but I can only work in Word because of compatibility.