You may be correct that there is a history of using "app" as a synonym of application pre-dating smartphones - just because it's not demonstrated here doesn't mean it's not demonstrated anywhere - but I still found the usage surprising. It is as if I used the abbreviation "doc", you'd probably understand it in context, and there is a long history of Word using it as an extension, but in prose you'd still write out the word "document". Your link gives several examples of using the abbreviation "app" for the word "application", but they are all clearly used as abbreviations, not as words in a prose context. It seems to bother some people when I use the words interchangeably but I don't really see what the technical difference is.
"App" has been used as an abbreviation/stand-in for "application" for a very long time, it's just in the "App Store" era that the word has picked up this small, mobile-only connotation. But if Office running on an actual computer is an "app", I guess it's just a synonym?
So is "app" now just the new word for "application" and "program"? I thought "app" was supposed to signify a sort-of mini-application as you might find on a smart phone, to distinguish it from a full-blown application. The Office for OS X apps were left behind, though.
So: not just a question of learning to use a hammer. I'm happy I almost never do anything more complex than Ars posts these days. Look at the junk that spews from some WYSIWYG HTML editors and you get the idea. The Word approach was much easier to apply the first time (and yes, you can do excellent work with the approach), but WordPerfect allowed for clean documents even if they'd been mangled through multiple cut'n'pastes, revisions, etc. If a “casual” user created a Word document, it often became un-editable with its jumble of competing overrides in any given part of the doc.
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In contrast to the frequent guesswork that Windows foisted on users. He has a TON of form templates built in it, so I can understand the desire to stick with it.īack in the 90s, WordPerfect supported a “show codes” option that let you see formatting codes for bolding & other styles, outlining, footnotes, etc. He only uses Outlook and Excel from the office suite.įor him I think it's just what he learned on, so he stuck with it. The attorney who works in my office still uses WordPerfect for everything.
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Just try building a Table of Authorities-it's painful and horrid in almost anything on the market today on the Mac side (oddly, Nisus Writer Pro can do it better than Word can). What's even sadder is that version of Wordperfect still has features that are better than anything currently on the Mac.
Seriously, just the other day I had to open Sheepshaver and then Wordperfect for Mac the last version (1997, Carbon FTW, ) to send a file to a colleague. It's only been 15 or so years.Īnd Wordperfect is still the default word processor in one of my working fields. What I really wish is that Corel would get off their rear ends and put out an updated version of WordPerfect for the Mac.
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