Microsoft PowerPoint vs WordPerfect Office: Which is a better fit?

Jose: My name is Jose. I'm an inside sales/outside salesman for an industrial distributor company selling all types of conveyor parts for the ag industry, and I would rate PowerPoint five out of five. Regarding the other companies, I don't believe we use them, just because of the compatibility with Microsoft. So whenever you try to basically blend it with the other Microsoft companies, it's just kind of weird. So then the other ones don't really have extensive templates, backgrounds, different types of basically inserting images, everything seems more complicated than the way Microsoft has laid out everything. The reason why I like Microsoft PowerPoint, it makes it super easy to do sales presentations for our customer. We use it basically on a daily basis. We're always trying to set up sales presentations where a customer [inaudible 00:01:04], see what we could offer, the transitions, we really like the transition of each slide, the way it transitions back, you can choose whether it's quick, whether it's slowly, with or without special effects. We like that it has an extensive amount of background templates, and then you can insert pictures straight off the web, or whether you have it saved by your computer. And then saving it onto your computer is just a breeze, because it just automatically goes. And then, yeah, that's it. I think it's extremely easy to onboard and start using PowerPoint. I've been using it since I was a kid, but at work, quite literally, anybody could just get on the app, and you don't even really need to know what you're doing. It's there for you, whether... Every single tool is available to you through the toolbar. So whether you want to format the page, want to insert photos, want to insert videos, or you want to transition slides, it's right there on the toolbar. You don't have to go looking for it. Just hit format, hit tools or whatever it is, and then it literally tells you what you need to do. Or the first thing, whenever you first onboard to PowerPoint, it's whether you want to start a blank template or you want to start basically one that's already been made. So that kind of makes it easier sometimes for the newer folks at our company, where we can throw them the app, and then they can pick a template that's already been made by Microsoft themselves. So it makes it really good. I would recommend PowerPoint. I would say best thing about it is, like I said, the compatibility with all of the Microsoft stuff that's already out there, whether it be Word or Excel, it just does really well. I would recommend it just because it's easier for the newer folks. You don't have to teach somebody how to use it. You just throw them the app, like I said, quite basically really simple to use. And I like it mainly because of the templates that are already made for you. So I think Microsoft, there's one that has a sales presentation, so you literally just open up the app, you hit sales presentation, and it's already got the layout for what a sales presentation should look like. Now all you have to do is basically edit it to your style to whatever you're trying to sell, but it's literally already there. It's showing you how to do a sales presentation.

Paul: Hi, I'm Paul. I'm the president and owner of a small business, and we're going to talk about WordPerfect Office today. I give it four out of five stars. For more information, click below. Before I got into WordPerfect Office, I dabbled a little bit with several word processors, including Word and spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3, this was way back in the day, and eventually settled on WordPerfect Office. WordPerfect Office is really unique in that it's the only Office system that doesn't try to be a Microsoft Office lookalike. One of the things that I really appreciate about WordPerfect is the absolute control that I get over formatting. If I have a document that I need to look in a particular way, I know that WordPerfect can handle that much better than the competition can. From a spreadsheet standpoint, Quattro Pro is every bit as good as Microsoft Excel. The file compatibility across the board is great. All of the formulas and functions work just the same. It's a great program. And Paradox is just an outstanding relational database. It's one that I really enjoy working with. I think WordPerfect Office, for the most part, is pretty easy to get into. But if you're coming to the main component, WordPerfect, from a Word background, it's going to be a little bit different and there's a bit of a steep learning curve. But if you've been with WordPerfect, like I have, since back in the days of DOS, it's an easy thing to do. The formatting is a little bit different, and once you wrap your head around it, it makes the transition very easy. I would recommend WordPerfect Office to people who are concerned about presenting their best foot and leading with a strong initial impression. The package will give you everything that you need in order to get things done. Where it falls down a little bit is that there is no mobile version yet, and the compatibility with the rest of the world, the Microsoft world, is a little bit challenging at times. If you're trading back and forth extensively formatted documents, you might tend to lose some formatting when you go from WordPerfect to Word. But if you wait to finalize things until you get everything back, you're going to be in great shape.