Word Perfect 5
| Field | Office Skills |
| Went Obsolete | 1990s |
| Made Obsolete By | Wide acceptance of MS Windows |
| Knowledge Assumed | Typing, Linear thought processes |
| When useful | Document Processing on antique computer system |
This DOS-based word processing product was the darling of the legal industry for many years. So much so that today there are still employees within the industry who will state, "It was easier to do xyz in Word Perfect - I hate Word!"
The human brain when typing and formatting documents tends to be linear in it's processes. Turn on a format such as "Bold" and type what you want to be bolded. Turn off the "bold" format when you come to the end of the word, phrase or sentence. MS Word and many contemporary word processing programs rely on an "Object based" model and contain an inherent heirarchy. Thus, formatting a piece of a document can have unexpected results on other portions depending on which heirarchical level to which that formatting was applied.