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Canadian company Corel Corporation offers the long extant WordPerfect Office Suite for word document, pdf and spreadsheet generation, touting epublishing features, rich presentation capabilities, and compatibility with more ubiquitous (e.g. Microsoft Office) word processors and office suites.
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What is WordPerfect Office?
Canadian company Corel Corporation offers the long extant WordPerfect Office Suite for word document, pdf and spreadsheet generation, touting epublishing features, rich presentation capabilities, and compatibility with more ubiquitous (e.g. Microsoft Office) word processors and office suites.
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Canadian company Corel Corporation offers the long extant WordPerfect Office Suite for word document, pdf and spreadsheet generation, touting epublishing features, rich presentation capabilities, and compatibility with more ubiquitous (e.g. Microsoft Office) word processors and office suites.
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Addicted to WordPerfect
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.
- auto-paragraph numbering
- macros are easy to create
- templates save a lot of time
- allow formatting changes easier with "reveal codes"
- 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
- 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."
365 is an excellent integrated suite of programs; I just much prefer WordPerfect to Word. Unfortunately, most of the support programs for lawyers are designed to work with Word and not WordPerfect, which has prevented me from using litigation support software. I don't care for Google Office since it seems somewhat barebones to me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Desktop Publishing
- Document Templates and Projects
- File Security
- 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.
- 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.
- LibreOffice is free. It's hard to compete with that for a home user or fledgling business. It's not as polished or as powerful for word processing as WordPerfect Office, but wholly adequate for most users. The same holds for the other office applications.
- Microsoft Office is the 600-pound gorilla with a dominant market share. Overall, I prefer WordPerfect Office, but in a connected world, it's necessary to exchange files with others, and those others are probably using Microsoft Office.
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.
- Using WordPerfect is very similar to Microsoft Word, naturally, as they are both word processing applications. One way that WordPerfect is a little stronger is that the formatting of documents is a little more fluid and easier to access. You can adjust the margins of a document on a line by line basis without having to use the ruler (simply by dragging the line over to where you want it); I find this helpful when including a large quote.
- Another helpful aspect of WordPerfect is the ability to include tables, which can contain formulas, much like Microsoft Excel. This is especially helpful when preparing closing statements or documents that contain a blend of text and numbers.
- WordPerfect's interface just seems to be a little more intuitive than Microsoft Office, which I use alongside it. Some time ago, Microsoft Office moved to a tabbed interface which, in my opinion, hides a lot of the features that I need. Long story short, if you are used to using Word, you can probably transition to WordPerfect with ease.
- My main gripe with WordPerfect concerns the Reveal Codes function. There have been times when I am working with a document that contains a hard page break and there is no real way to remove it. Attempting to adjust these settings with the Reveal Codes function is nigh impossible.
- Unlike Word, there doesn't seem to be any sort of online community of users comparing notes and exchanging advice for solving common problems. This makes it difficult to fix things like the Reveal Codes problem discussed above. When I first encountered this issue (and the second time...) I ran an online search to see if others had the same problem and how they may have addressed it. There were very few results and the ones I did find were several years old. So, this is one downside of WordPerfect being a far less popular application than its competitor.
- This might be a nitpick, but WordPerfect has a function for opening PDFs, which I find to be pretty useless, especially when Adobe software is designed specifically for this and is widely available. I never use WordPerfect to open PDFs, unless it is on accident.
- 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.
I have used Microsoft Office extensively as well as Google's suite of office products. I think that Microsoft is more versatile overall; from Powerpoint to Excel to Word, as well as Outlook, it has the whole office pretty much covered. WordPerfect is a very strong word processor and great for everyday use, but I don't think it could replace Excel, despite its useful tables function. I don't know if WordPerfect has an email application, so I can't compare that to Word, but we use WordPerfect side by side with the rest of the Microsoft Office suite.