WordPerfect Office Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are negotiating a document, using WordPerfect can be a problem since so few people still use it and while it is easy to save a .wpd document as a .doc, the reverse creates all sorts of formatting mayhem. However, WordPerfect has great page numbering options and easy macro/template creation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WP Office is the best word processing solution for a Law Office due to its ease of formatting and reference (table of contents, table of authorities, etc.) capabilities.

Likelihood to Recommend

ANY law office can benefit from WP Office's ease-of-use and backward file compatibility.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it as my primary office suite.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPerfect Office is less expensive than MS Office. You have more precise formatting with WordPerfect. It does lose some formatting when opening up complex Word files.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPerfect Office provides an alternative to Microsoft Office using one of the best word processing application. The ability to get a clear document without a lot of the Microsoft Word issues simply is amazing. Simple to use and simple to learn.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPerfect provides thousands of templates, fonts, and clipart. You can purchase the Oxford Dictionary for a low price as an Add-On. Interact with Quattro Pro and Presentations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WP as our primary software. We word-process all documents, charts, etc. We store other file types in the various folders and directories as it pertains to our clients.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for inter-office work, less well-suited for collaborating with others, because there was a time when all law firms used WP, but now more have moved to MS Word.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<ul><li>We use WordPerfect Office throughout our organization as the primary Office Suite. As a word processing application, it is unparalleled. Microsoft Word is slightly better for group editing, but that feature is less important in our use than the formatting capability WordPerfect Office offers. It borders on being a desktop publishing application. The other "suite" members are less impressive but fully adequate. Quattro Pro as a spreadsheet has some features that Excel lacks, but Excel's dominance in the market is hard to ignore if you are exchanging files with users outside the company.</li><li>An often-overlooked advantage of WordPerfect Office is its relative security. Viruses and Malware go for the low hanging fruit making Microsoft Office files the primary target. We once had a user unleash Malware on our network that encrypted several files, but did not touch any of our Corel files.</li><li>I'm a fairly advanced user and float between Corel (WordPerfect Office), Microsoft Office, and Libre Office. I find each has particular strengths and weaknesses, but overall after decades of use, if I had to give up all but one suite, WordPerfect Office is the one I'd keep.</li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>WordPerfect Office is best suited for the legal professions where it's word processing, and formatting ability is unparalleled, but any office location where Word Processing is the dominant use of the suite. WordPerfect Office is far more powerful than Microsoft Word.</li><li>Quattro is wholly adequate for 99% of users and converts most Excel files seamlessly. The real shortcoming is the lack of an integrated mail client. Personally, I don't care for Outlook and use a different mail client, but for many, this is a significant consideration.</li><li>Additionally, suites like Libre Office are fast encroaching. While WordPerfect Office is less expensive than Microsoft Office and still offers a more powerful word processing application, the narrow focus combined with free or low-cost options are hard to ignore.</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using WordPerfect Office for several functions. My main use is for merging of letters, envelopes, and labels. I export data from Raiser's Edge into a WordPerfect merge file for the merges. I find WordPerfect much more intuitive than Microsoft Word for merging.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPerfect Office is great for merging files! The reveal codes option is also very helpful in WordPerfect Office.

WordPerfect Office is not as widely used in our company as Microsoft Word so converting between the documents may create issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My office uses WordPerfect Office for creating and editing legal documents such as agreements, deeds contracts of sale, and many others. We also use forms that are created in WordPerfect and can be adapted for each specific transaction or situation. Everyone who works in my office uses WordPerfect on a daily basis.

Likelihood to Recommend

For some reason, WordPerfect seems to be popular in law offices, at least in my part of the country. I imagine this has to do with its relative ease of use when preparing documents, and the wide availability of forms for legal documents (although I suspect that any forms that are available in WordPerfect are also available in Word and other formats).

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using WordPerfect to create and update a 170 page resource directory for our county. It is used mainly by two people who input the information into the program and format it. It is used mainly due to the fact that the resource directory was created with WordPrect in the late 1990's and every attempt at converting the format to MS Word has been unsuccessful.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPerfect is stable using old documents and long documents. You can open them with ease and quickly. The formatting in WordPerfect is totally in your control, and the access to the formatting code makes this possible (Alt-F3). It is needed when using old documents that have been created in the past and are continually updated.

Let's not forget there is no Cloud feature to WordPerfect. In all honesty, if anyone is looking to create a new document MSWord is going to be the better choice.