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Summary: Great Product
Review: As a journal editor I use both Microsoft Word 2000 and WordPerfect 12. WordPerfect stands heads and shoulder above Word. Easier to use, more stable, more flexible, and more features. I found WordPerfect 12 to be a worthwhile improvement over version 11. Graphics are better and easier to use, in particular. It is a cinch to install and use.
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Summary: Corel is a superior product
Review: Corel has always produced a better product than Microsoft. There have been versions that have been better and worse. This version is one of the best. It is stable, it saves to PDF and XML. It is intuitive as the changes apply only to what you are working on and don't apply to the style of the whole form.
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Summary: The better word processing program
Review: I don't have much use for anything in the suite except WordPerfect. I've been using WordPerfect since before Windows, when it had a blue or a green screen, displayed mostly ASCII characters, there were no fonts except courier, and laser printers cost a small fortune. I work for a number of attorneys -- WordPerfect is the software of choice for wordprocessing in most offices I've worked in because, in my opinion, it is the better product for the job. It may also be because WordPerfect has been around for so long that everyone just migrated without changing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
When WordPerfect came out, it took over the market. When MicroSoft came out with Word, I had the feeling they did everything they could to make it different from WordPerfect just to use their power in the industry to take over the wordprocessing market, just like MicroSoft did with every other good software idea to come along. (e.g., Mozilla/Netscape, Norton Utilities.) I hate Microsoft's stupid animated paperclip -- it makes me feel like a 7 year old. "It looks like your writing a letter ..." Go away! It was amusing to watch it roll itself up and spit itself through some imaginary pinch rollers when you print a document. But only once. I want to tell MicroSoft to wrap that annoying the paperclip around their cable modems!! I'm an adult!
I have two versions of Word and WordPerfect 5, 7, 8, 10 and 12. (I just threw out 5.2 for Windows and 7 when I moved.) I use the MicroSoft product only when absolutely necessary -- usually because someone else needs the document in that format.
The reason I like WordPerfect so much is that it types more like a typewriter. You can set up and use styles if you want, but you can also just hit the tab button to indent the first line of a paragraph. If you want to change the margins for the entire document, you simply change the margins. The rest of the document follows the change. You don't have to change each paragraph.
In addition, you can get to the formatting codes. Hit Alt-F3 and the screen splits in half and displays all of the format codes -- bold, underline, tabs, indent codes, line spacing, column on and off, etc. Then you know exactly what you have done and fix and format it easily. This ability has proven useful on several occasions when clients, who insist on using Word for legal documents, cannot cajole Word to put their unruly documents into the format they want. (This is particularly true when using OCR with scanned or faxed documents.) By opening the Word document in WordPerfect, I have been able to use "Alt-F3" to identify the errant codes and quickly repair them. WordPerfect can then save the document in Word/RTF format with the problems fixed.
Working with columns is also easier. You turn on columns and tell it how many colums you want, set the width of each, and the space between them, and away you go. You have four types of columns to work with -- newspaper, balanced newspaper, parallel and parallel with block protect. It handles columns much better. I've tried the other software, and if you change text or printers, you can never get the columns to line up the way you want it. With Word, each colum change or page change seems to introduce new control codes, and a complete set of formatting, and you can never get it back the way you want it. I once tried to scan in a list of names and addresses which were in two or three columns into Word. Each name and address was placed in its own text box. I could never work with it.
The most prominent change between WP 10 and 12 is the workspace manager which allows you to switch between legal mode, original (classic) WordPerfect 5.1 mode (with the blue screen), legal mode, standard WordPerfect for Windows mode and Word mode. They have also included the ability to publish to Adobe PDF, HTML, and RTF/Word formats.
This is full featured software, and does everything I need. It handles tables, tables of content, tables of authorities, column sorts -- everything I need in a law office. Graphics can be dropped in with a click of the mouse. I'm considered to be almost an expert, and there is a lot I don't know!
Take time to get to know the software and you'll be glad you purchased it.
I recommend purchasing the stand alone student and teachers version as it contains all of the same programs at a lower cost.
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Summary: Some unsolicited advice: Don't
Review: I paid the same amount to upgrade to WP12 that others did who had never used WP before. I was willing to do that (thinking that there would be added features). WP Suite 8 was a great program, and it works with Windows ME, but does not work with XP. My sympathies were with WP for having to catch-up. I purchased a basic WP10 program to continue using WP. Then I purchased WP11, which worked with XP, and I will continue to use it as long as it works - even though I seem to have lost (get a message: not available) a connection to their online HELP. I thought that WP12 would be an improvement - it wasn't. It messed up some of my WP and QuadroPro files even though I said I wanted the WP version. (It supposedly works well with other software programs -maybe so- but it didn't work for me in WP mode.) I uninstalled WP12 and reinstalled WP11. Today I purchased some additional Templates for WP - nothing useful there.
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Summary: Better than anything Microsoft puts out
Review: I've been using Wordperfect since version 4.2 and this version doesn't disappoint. I use this program all of the time to fix the problems I find in Microsoft Word. I use Quatro Pro instead of Excel and all of the other programs. I would recommend this program without hesitation.
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Summary: Get the Upgrade - You'll love it!
Review: I've used Corel WordPerfect products for years -- some upgrades are better than others. This one is a real prize! I recently purchased WordPerfect Office 12 for my husband's law office. There are many improvements and I use the WordPerfect Legal mode most of the time. In addition to this, I work for a transportation engineering firm and all three offices have upgraded to WordPerfect Office 12. One of the main reasons is that we need to convert many files and reports to Adobe PDF format. This now can be accomplished quickly and easily within WordPerfect (although our company continues to use Adobe Acrobat). Also, we need compatibility with Microsoft software. The conversion utility, which allows a WP file to be converted to Word (or many other wordprocessing formats) is nearly flawless. If you like Word better than WordPerfect, just switch the Workspace Manager to Microsoft Office. I really like the new upgrade.
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Summary: WordPerfect Office 12
Review: Installed easily. It appears to be very compatible with Microsoft Word but it's reveal codes feature is still invaluable, and unlike Word all its features work. The new templates browser is very valuable. QuattroPro is also excellent. I never use Presentations nor Power Point so I cannot comment on these items. I hope WordPerfect stays around for a while to give some competition to the clunky, hard-to-use but ubiquitous Microsoft Word and Excel.
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Summary: No compelling reason to upgrade
Review: Nothing substantially new here expect for the picture on the box. In other words, there's no real reason to sink money into this product, except to help prop up a company that seems to have lost its ability to innovate.The same old claims (compatibilty with MS, ease of use, etc. are being made, but big deal. Corel has made these claims before.) I can see no real difference between this version and the 2002 suite. I'll pass on the Corel upgrades until they make them worth my time and money.
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Summary: Run Away While You Can
Review: This is by far one of the most frustrating word processing programs I've ever worked with. I'm used to working with Microsoft Word (which is no catch itself) and, though it is nice that this is compatible with Word, it can't SAVE it as a word document.
Forget about editing! Due to glitches in the program, when you hit a reverse tab, your paragraphs end up overlapping on your screen! Incredible, but true! It made editing my resume a complete nightmare. It's workable, but unbelievable that these people can't design something compatible with real world needs. It's not worth upgrading from the 2002 version, either, since the changes are unsubstantial and unimpressive to warrant an "upgrade". Run away while you can...
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Summary: Complaints?
Review: to those of you with complaints about WP's functioning with Windows XP: haven't you realized by now that NOTHING works well with XP? before upgrading to XP (which every new computer is being sold with now) i refused to buy it. i looked at all computers (esp. the fastest ones) and discovered that EVERYTHING takes forever to load and there were far too many glitches on all the programs. having worked at microsoft in WA state at one time, i found out there that 1st releases ALWAYS have numerous glitches and incompatibility problems. My suggestion: find a way to DUMP WINDOWS XP!
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