WordPerfect Office

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).