I would much prefer to use the editor in WordPerfect.  But when I try to copy from WordPerfect and paste into this forum, the text will not paste.  Is there a way to to do this so I can use an editor that has more features.

You should be able to paste plain text by copying the text from your word processor and using shift+insert to paste into GBTalk’s editor.  You can't copy over formatting from an external word processor.