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Whatever type of business you manage legal, government, or enterprise WordPerfect delivers the compatibility, power, and affordability you need to be successful in any office environment
Companies requiring document generation, management and sharing.
It offers the possibility to save all the work in different formats, which allows for better compatibility. It is an excellent word processing software for creating beautiful documents.
But as I began to write and receive an increasing number of documents in other languages, particularly Unicode CJK character sets, the limitations of WordPerfect forced me to largely stop using it.
The feature I liked most about Wordperfect was how user friendly it was and once you finished your project you can easily save it.
It can be hard to insert tables in it at times.
The ease of use is wonderful. I get all my reports done with ease and if I need to seek help the feature is readily available to access.
I used an earlier version and found it a bit difficult to use.
Ve had an overall great experience with WordPerfect Office. It has been very easy for me to use, and I love the variety of features that it has.
It handles all of my word processing needs. Only recently have I had problems with converting documents between different platforms, which it used to do exceedingly well.
I love that Word is easy to use, I can do many different types of documents like CVs, letters, essays, and even my thesis. It is very reliable and accessible.
Personally, I find myself struggling to fight with the automatic formatting of words and the way they are organized on the document as you type it, and still to this day struggle with it.
I like that the product constantly evolves and improves. I love having the integration to my Microsoft One Drive so that I can auto-save there as well as make quick updates.
If it is closed by mistake, all our data is lost. Most people never use its full features because it is very complicated.
I highly recommend it for those who want to use a practical platform that has been improving and getting better with each edition.
32 bit has a memory limitation that makes documents with over 20000 characters crash the program consistently.
Overall, I highly recommend others to use this software because of its simplicity, usefulness, and reliability. It is user friendly, everything is pretty simple to do and learn even for new learners.
This can be overruled using ctrl, but it can still be annoying.
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.
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