WordPerfect Office vs Google Docs: Which is a better fit?

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.

Jeb B.: Hi. My name is Jeb. I'm the owner of a small business and I give Google Docs five out of five stars. So before I had Google Docs and we're talking many, many years ago, it was before everything was in the cloud. We had used Microsoft Word and just the ability to work in the cloud made such a huge difference for us. So we chose Google Docs because, I mean, for starters it was free and that was back in the day when you'd have to pay to use Microsoft Word and so we wanted to give Google Docs a try, again, because it was free. But also it was in the cloud and we didn't have to use space up on our computer to save documents. So getting started with Google Docs was super easy. It was the same as using any other similar Microsoft Word style program. It just jumped in with both feet and it was a piece of cake. So just jump in with both feet for Google Docs. It's super simple to use. Anyone who can use a computer in this day and age can use Google Docs. It's a no-brainer.