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WordPerfect Office

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What is WordPerfect Office?

Canadian company Corel Corporation offers the WordPerfect Office Suite for word document, pdf and spreadsheet generation. It includes epublishing features, rich presentation capabilities, and compatibility with more ubiquitous (e.g. Microsoft Office) word processors and office suites.

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WordPerfect is simply the best!

Incentivized
Terry IngoldsbyView profile
President in Research & Development at Amenaza Technologies Limited (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPerfect Office for pretty much all internal documents and for documents that will be converted to PDF for clients. I particularly prefer WordPerfect for large documents (e.g., 50 pages). It has great capabilities for dealing with references and footnotes. I also like the fact that I can use the "Reveal Codes" option to see what tags are in the document and to edit them if need be. I also use Quattro Pro. It is not as powerful as Excel but often simpler to use. About the only time I don't use WordPerfect (or Excel) is if I need to send the raw (i.e., not PDF) document to someone outside of the organization. Such documents usually go in Word format. Although WordPerfect has the capability to save documents in Word format the translation is often not perfect and formatting is affected.

Pros

  • Reveal codes - see what tags are affecting formatting
  • References and footnotes
  • Generation of table of contents (on large documents) - a bit tricky to use but powerful

Cons

  • WordPerfect needs to improve its interoperability with Word. OpenOffice does this better than WordPerfect Office (WP), so WP should be able to as well.
  • The "Presentations" tool (part of the suite) is great for simple presentations but not as powerful as PowerPoint. It hasn't seen significant enhancements for some time and could benefit from them.
  • Examples of how to use the "references" feature would save people time in trying to figure out how to use it.

Return on Investment

  • WordPerfect allows me to more easily create documents exactly how I want them to appear.
  • Challenges with working in a "Word" world force me to have both products on my computers (in order to use Word documents).
  • The lack of compatibility with Word products can be a feature. If I have a presentation that I don't want to get passed around I do it in "Presentations". PowerPoint can't open it. It is a poor man's copy protection.

Alternatives Considered

Apache OpenOffice

Other Software Used

Kofax Power PDF, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Camtasia

Addicted to WordPerfect

Incentivized
Donald Wall
Principal in Legal at Donald R. Wall (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IMHO, WordPerfect is still the best word processing software ever made. It makes formatting easy (important for lawyers) and "reveal codes" allows the user adjust the appearance of a document much easier than Word or Google docs. I use WordPerfect for all my correspondence and court papers and agreements. I have created numerous macros myself which makes my time much more efficient. I will retire before I stop using it.

Pros

  • auto-paragraph numbering
  • macros are easy to create
  • templates save a lot of time
  • allow formatting changes easier with "reveal codes"

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • WordPerfect's word processor saves me lots of time compared to Word
  • I have never used any of WordPerfect Office's "other programs" since Microsoft so dominates the field
  • I once told another attorney I was working with that I use WordPerfect and she responded, "Oh, you're the one."

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365

Other Software Used

Sage Timeslips

WordPerfect, a better office

Incentivized
David Reese
Owner at Reese Accounting (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Reveal codes
  • Quattro has better built-in tools than Excel
  • WordPerfect gives you more control over formatting than Word

Cons

  • Natively printing to PDF
  • using Word documents
  • Better Excel file use
  • No e-mail client

Most Important Features

  • Reveal Codes
  • Document formatting

Return on Investment

  • WP Office is much less expensive than MS Office
  • objectively it is a better product.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), QuickBooks Desktop Pro, QuickBooks Online Advanced

WordPerfect Office, Still the best word processing application

Incentivized
Herm HarrisonView profile
Vice President in Corporate at Foster Transformer Company (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Desktop Publishing
  • Document Templates and Projects
  • File Security

Cons

  • Quattro Pro, wholly adequate, but beginning to lag Excel
  • No integrated eMail program.
  • Database (does anyone use these anymore) hasn't been updated in years.

Return on Investment

  • More difficult to find potential employees familiar with WordPerfect Office.
  • Less costly than Microsoft Office and the file formats haven't changed in years, making it easier to use old documents without reformatting.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Office 2016 and LibreOffice

Other Software Used

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting)

WordPerfect Office the ultimate word processing application

Incentivized
Richard BaroniunasView profile
Owner in Research & Development at Baron Software Services (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Quattro Pro needs to be improved over Microsoft Excel.
  • Paradox Database has not been updated in the past 9 years.
  • Presentations works but not as well as PowerPoint.

Return on Investment

  • Dealing with outside clients that may not have WordPerfect.
  • Interfacing with Microsoft products.
  • Some of the software needs to be updated..