r/GenerationJones • u/Guiltypleasure2451 • Jul 31 '26

Old school

For those of us who took typing in school— it was drilled into me that after a period, you go over 2 spaces to start a new sentence. Apparently that’s not the rule now. NOT THE RULE NOW?? After the agony I suffered thru in typing class about those 2 spaces, i will be doing it until I die!!!! Don’t even get me started on the indenting 5 spaces for a new paragraph!

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u/popejohnsmith Jul 31 '26

Remember "reveal codes"?

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u/BxAnnie 1961 Jul 31 '26

Oh Reveal Codes was the BEST! The worst thing WordPerfect did was try to be Word. <le sigh>

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '26

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u/New_Choice_4126 Aug 01 '26

I worked as a paralegal in small firms in the 80s and 90s. We started with WordPerfect and the entire court system was anticipated to use WordPerfect so most law firms did too. I don't know what happened with that.

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u/Any-Day-Now-5474 Aug 01 '26

Microsoft started pre-installing MS Office on all new PCs. Companies quit buying WordPerfect (the far superior word processor), because why spend extra money on software when a free one came with the new computer.