Kiplinger's WillPower 2004 Win/Mac

Rating:
Summary: alright in basic function, but no import facility
Review: Willpower is acceptable, as far as its function goes. It provides a scheme for detailing your assets, and a boilerplate Will and Last text. It's not clear, however, that the scheme couldn't be done comparably with a spreadsheet. In addition, the Will and Last text often needs editing, for the legal language is convoluted so it can be massaged by a computer program to handle the cases checked.

However, Kiplinger provides NO UPGRADE from one year's Willpower to another, something which you'd think would be important as laws change. I was talked into buying a completely new version, which I did. Guess what: The new version has NO MEANS OF IMPORTING INFORMATION from the older version. That means you have to enter all your property all over again.

The lack of a means of importing information is why I rated this at One Star. Otherwise it'd get a Three Stars.

I'm on the hunt for a third-party conversions program. I may write one myself.