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I know lawyers (who do a lot of very particular word processing) who kept using WordPerfect for decades after Microsoft Word had become the norm.
by pjfin123 2y ago
I know lawyers (who do a lot of very particular word processing) who kept using WordPerfect for decades after Microsoft Word had become the norm.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago> I know lawyers Sorry, man. --- But does that mean you have some good lawyer jokes to share?
- kstrauser 2y agoWhy don't sharks bite lawyers? Professional courtesy. (I have a million of these from my lawyer friends.)
- CoastalCoder 2y agoPlease, keep `em coming!
- kstrauser 2y agoWhat's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer? One's a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other's a fish. (Stopping with this one. It's fun trading these with attorney buddies but I don't want someone to take them out of context as an opportunity to start lawyer bashing.)
- kstrauser 2y agoMy understanding was that a lot of courtroom document standards originated as "...like WordPerfect does it." For example, before word processing, no one expected documents to include word counts. When word processing came along, judges wanted to know much much they were going to be expected to read, so they started requiring the cover sheet to include the number of words. And because WP came along at the right time, its algorithm for counting words (do you include footnotes? Headers/footers? The word "page" on "page 23"? Section titles?) became the de facto way to do it, and judges being judges, some were persnickety about the numbers matching exactly and would throw a hissy if they didn't. Here's an example of someone bumping against that: https://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/forum/wordperfect/troubleshooting/29320-word-count-in-legal-documents https://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/forum/wordperfect/troubleshoot...
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