Is there anyone else working with WP5.1/PRD installed in Windows XP. My PRD keeps going on and off. Any help will be appreciated.

Pat

Hi Pat,

Does PRD have tech support? You might try that. Or if they have a web site maybe they have a place you can e-mail them?

When I bought my XP, I couldn't use my PRD either, had all kinds of problems. Seems my PRD was a DOS program which didn't work well with windows. I ended up buying Shorthand for Windows which works great with both Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. It can be downloaded right from the site. Here's their website addy:
PC Shorthand for Windows

Hope this helps!
Toni

First of all thanks to you both for your replies.

Tonetta: Are you running WP5.1 in your XP?

Thanks again,

Pat

Hi, Pat...

I also have XP/WP5.1/PRD. I work for a service and have a special boot disk to take me into DOS; the c:\ command prompt through Windows does not work. So I am completely out of Windows when I'm working. I'd like to be able to do other things with my Word Perfect (I have a friend who wants to use it...she's an older woman who doesn't know any other software for word processing and is back in college) but I can't figure out how to save the reports so I can print them (my printer will not print my DOS stuff). I can pull them into Word once I'm back in Windows, but I'm afraid my directory dedicated to her stuff will accidentally be sent to my employer!

Not much help, I'm afraid...but I'll be reading the responses to your query with great interest!

Good luck.

Pat, I replied to you via e-mail. Toni

Gracie - I hate it that Windows and DOS are so incompatible when it comes to programs and printers. I loved working with WordPerfect 5.1 DOS and PRD, but now have to use MS Word. I lose so much production by having to take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, and it's SLOW SLOW SLOW! Dont' know whether it's Word or XP that causes the long pauses, but it's really frustrating some days, especially if I have a lot of work to do.

TTFN Toni

Hey, Toni--I don't know how much it will help you, but I do know that you can navigate around MS Word without a mouse. There are keyboard commands for virtually everything. When I worked at the local clinic, we switched over from 5.1 to Word and I was the guinea pig (having worked with Word before), and I absolutely rebelled against taking my hands off the keyboard, too! Anyway, there are keyboard shortcuts for most navigation tasks and you can also create your own using macros...I'd do anything to avoid using the mouse while I'm trying to type. We old-school typists who know how to type really fast and make our livings doing it really suffer with these Windows-based programs, but there are ways to work with it. It takes time to acclimate, but once you find them and work with them consistently, they become second-nature (when I switched back to 5.1, I remember how my fingers struggled to accurately find F4, F7, and F12 LOL).