Book: Term Papers with WordPerfect

Book: Term Papers with WordPerfect

keyliner has published a new book, "Term Papers with WordPerfect" -- a sister book to the previously published "Adventures with WordPerfect".

Amazon Link:  "Term Papers with WordPerfect"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYTWSW5



This book is a subset of the larger, more complicated book and is targeted specifically to students and other manuscript writers.  This book shows how to use your word processor to write professional Term Papers, manuscripts, thesis papers, and other long documents.

If you need to write Term Papers or a thesis, glance at this older keyliner article:  Using WordPerfect for Term Papers.  

But for the past year, this has bothered me.  That article is too short to do justice and my other 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".

This book shows how you can do this

• Edit large documents with complete control over formatting
• No-nonsense footers -- easy to write in WordPerfect; damn-near impossible in Word
• Automatic Table-of-Contents
• 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-Section - Force Page Odd, and other handy controls
• Learn all of the best keystrokes, saving you time
• Learn how to do graphics the right way -- both creating them and importing them into your document.
• and more

WordPerfect?  Seriously?

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 already 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.  For example, WordPerfect has a unique way of handling its formatting.  Formatting, such as a Bold, Font, or Tab changes, 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 re-typing.  

My Recommendation

If you have a big project, buy this book (naturally, I'd say that).  Then download Corel's WordPerfect 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 just a few evenings.

When you do this, pay close attention to the setup in Chapter 1, as well as the keystroke chapter.

"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#
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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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