Apple iWork vs. WordPerfect Office

iWork is suited for those in the Apple ecosystem. It is specially recommended for those who are already familiar with Apple apps. If cross-platform interoperability is needed, I use iWork + Google products. Usually I build the docs in iWork and present using Google products on the PC, when no Mac or iPad is available.

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WordPerfect itself is (IMHO) the best word processor available. Much easier to use (and I think, more intuitive) than Word. It can do things that Word struggles to do. That said, most of the world uses Word and improvements to the interchange functionality would allow it to be used in more situations. I realize that isn't easy - internally, the two products work differently and use very different data models

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• Presentations with animations and links to other docs or web pages
• Worksheets & charts
• Documents & e-books
• Training materials

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• Built-in publishing to PDF, that supports hyperlinks and watermarks.
• Real-time previews of formatting options.
• The Variables feature allows a variable or placeholder to be placed in multiple locations in a document.

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• iWork could use same pencil tools available in Apple Notes
• Add capabilities similar to Apple Notes to edit or markup PDFs

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• conversion from Word is problematice to put it kindly
• it doesn't offer formatting options over the words, only in the toolbar
• track changes is compared to Word is weak

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We are married to it for life.

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It works fine, few crashes.

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Corel still offers support. Microsoft doesn't unless you have a paid contract. LibreOffice is all web-based. If you need support, Corel WordPerfect Office is the best option.

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iWork is fairly complete and does a great job on the usual tasks related to creating presentation, worksheets and documents. Its major drawback is the lack of interoperability in non-Apple systems. For Apple users (iPhone, iPad and Mac) it is the recommended solution for the tasks above. Apple has been improving the product over the years and should continue to do so.

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WordPerfect Office is not a product like Blackbaud's products, but it does work very well with them. Merging documents from Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge is accomplished very easily through WordPerfect Office and allows better options in many cases than when merging with Microsoft Word. My main uses for WordPerfect Office have been in merging letters, envelopes, and labels and when searching with reveal codes for improper codes in a document.

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• Since it is a free product, it saved me money in comparable products

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• My office wouldn't be able to make money at all if we didn't use WordPerfect; we use it to generate all of the documents that we use in our business. Granted, if we used Microsoft or another Office suite, we could eventually obtain the results we currently get, but we seem to have positioned our workflow around WordPerfect and to use something else would potentially hinder our productivity.

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