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Originally Posted by BarracudaUAK

Just a quick note:

Word Perfect predates Microsoft Word,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect

And Lotus 1-2-3 predates Microsoft Excel,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

Compare the release dates of MS Word, and Excel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel


I knew several people that switched from these to Microsoft Office when their jobs switched over to Windows and MS Office.

I used Word Perfect also, actually worked on my Tandy 1000 RL.

Also of note is GeoWorks, We had a 386 SX/25 that originally came with Geoworks Ensemble,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(...erating_system)

There were things I could do in Geoworks, that I couldn't do in Win95 years later.

Still have the disk in storage... I really need to go dig them out.



Just a bit of info.
Have a good one gents...

Barracuda

Predating both Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel was Multiplan, a very early spreadsheet; it was the first PC spreadsheet I used and it was bit of a struggle to make it really workable; the first project I created was tax depreciation schedules for a utility company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

Also, predating MS-Office, was a Lotus product called IBM Lotus Symphony, an all-in-one suite of software, which later morphed in what is now OpenOffice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony

The utility company I mentioned above got me the Symphony package after I solved a problem of not having a word processing application (it was either get Multiplan or get a word processor, not both) by using 1-2-3's macros to program a rudimentary word processor, so I could handle inserting large blocks of text into the spreadsheets...

I recall the transition to Office and Windows; I accepted a project and was told the company used MS-DOS, WordPerfect, and 1-2-3, all of which I was well familiar; when I got to the site, I found out they actually used Windows 3.1 and MS-Office, neither of which I had ever used; it was a real "in at the deep end" situation, but I was able to suss out how it all worked and complete the project. Ah, the "Good Old Days"...





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