Book: Adventures with WordPerfect
Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-WordPerfect-Writing-Books/dp/B0CRZD2QPR
This book shows how to write books with WordPerfect.
In here, learn how to make a multi-chapter book, with a table-of-contents, indexing, footnotes, and end-notes. The document can be as large as you could imagine, and everything will work.
As you will learn, to do this right, it is not just one long continuous document. As can be imagined, a 300 page book (or even 700 pages) becomes unmanageable. WordPerfect has a unique way to tame and organize your writings.
This book shows how you can do this
- Edit multi-chapter books
- Only the chapter you are currently working on needs to be exposed
- Set "Styles" -- controlling the look-and-feel of chapter headers, section headings, indentations, margin releases, and the like
- Change the style one time and all chapters absorb the change -- this means consistency throughout your document
- Automatic Table-of-Contents
- Back-of-book Indexing
- Easy Page-Referencing (as in, "See Page xx")
- Block Protect section headers with their text; no more unsightly page breaks; no more managing page-breaks by hand
- First-of-Chapter - Force Page Odd, and other handy controls
- Learn all of the best keystrokes, saving you time
- Learn graphics the right way -- both creating them and importing them into your document.
- Complete steps for publishing to Kindle (just like this book)
Seriously, WordPerfect?
I tell people it takes five minutes to learn the basics of WordPerfect, and another 20 minutes to be proficient. With this book and another few hours, you will be a master.
I know there is some friction, with some of you saying, "I already own MSWord (or GoogleDocs), why would I want to spend the time and money on a new word processor?"
My answer is simple: Your sanity is worth something. Not yelling at your word processor is worth something. And time is valuable. WordPerfect is not without faults, but you will find it simply behaves better. It is worth the trouble.
I also own MS Word but I seldom use it. Even for my day-to-day word processing needs, I stick with WordPerfect. I suspect you will be a convert too.
WordPerfect does things that Word cannot and it does it in a way that is less confusing. You will be pleasantly surprised.
WordPerfect has a unique way of handling its formatting. Formatting, such as a Bold, Font, or Tab-setting change, are all tracked in a feature called "Reveal Codes". Every code, every character, every change-of-heart, is tracked by these codes, and the codes are all visible. Nothing is hidden.
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This means when some word or sentence mis-behaves, it is easy to see why, and more importantly, easy-to-fix without deleting and re-typing.
Fundamentally, WP behaves differently than Word. Word anchors most formatting changes to a paragraph and those changes stay with that paragraph -- even if it is copied and moved-about.
For example, my book, Real World Excel is nearly 600 pages long, 18 chapters, 700 illustrations. One day I decided to change the font from Arial, 11 points to Century School, 10 points. One change at the top of the main document and it cascaded through all chapters. All chapter heading (with a larger font), all subheadings, all italics, all bolds --- all changed to the new font and the font change was proportional.
More importantly, even though every page was wildly-reformatted, all graphics stayed where they were supposed to, and all page-breaks behaved. In other words, with only a five minute review, the entire book re-formatted and all was well.
My Recommendation
If you have a big project, buy this book (naturally, I'd say that). Then download Corel WordPerfect's Home and Student Edition for a free 30-day trial. For about the price of a nice lunch, you can kick the tires and try this out. You can easily go through the most important parts of this book in a few evenings.
When you do this, pay close attention to the setup in Chapter 1, as well as the keystroke chapter.
Shorter Projects - Term Papers
If you need to write Term Papers or a thesis, glance at this keyliner article: Using WordPerfect for Term Papers. The trouble is that article is too short to do justice and this book, "Adventures with WordPerfect", although great, is overkill for a college term paper or thesis. I fixed the problem by writing a shorter, more distilled book, "Term Papers with WordPerfect".
"Term Papers with WordPerfect" does not have the chapter or style-complexities needed by a full-fledged book. Nor does it spend time on how to publish. I carefully cut and tightened the TermPaper book to be more succinct, with many new graphics.
Links:
Amazon link: Book: Adventures with WordPerfect
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-WordPerfect-Writing-Books/dp/B0CRZD2QPR
Amazon link: Book: Term Papers with WordPerfect
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYTWSW5
Amazon link: Books: War and Peace Programming in C#
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1585105787473796476/4797889075679590116#
Amazon link: Book: Real World Excel
https://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Excel-Tim-Wolf/dp/B0FRSJP1JV
Articles (somewhat dated now)
keyliner: Using WordPerfect for Term Papers
keyliner: WordPerfect -- why this instead of MSWord
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