WordPerfect Office 2002 Professional Edition

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Here is the skinny on Corel Office Suite: WP: even now it is still head and shoulders above Word. Word is NOT easier to use as some have said. The best Point of WPerfect is the reveal codes function. I have used it many times to correct some [] Word format document which has insisted on blowing up to 10mb's when the document is only a 3-page document. Yes, I repeat I used WordPerfect to fix word. All of the functions with the exception of `the send' to email in WordPerfect are simpler and better thought out than that of Word. Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Corel's Application Recovery Manager are MUCH better than the equivalents in MS Word. I particularly love the way the Dictionary is implemented, you can doubleclick a word and it will bring the entry in the dictionary, including common usage almost as indispensable as reveal codes. Advanced voice recognition software and microphone help are features I have no use for, but my great-uncle, (who is 87), swears by it. In his case though, I had to get the Law version, (Harvard lawyer). Personally I can't see how it can be simple to use. But then again my diction isn't the best. Grammatik, hmm what can I say about that, well it is actually useful EVEN if you're not a businessman. This is unlike MS Word, which is really geared toward business sentence structure only. Bitstream Font Navigator is probably one very underused tool. Personally I love it. Adobe PDF publishing is a wonderful add-on. And the HTML capabilities are much improved, though I still find Notepad to be the best HTML editor. XML, SGML seems to be handled correctly, but I wonder. OH and the keyboard shortcuts are usually better thought out than that of Word, though most are the same, in fact most are Windows default. The send to mail would be nice if it would work nicely with Outlook or Outlook Express. The Perfect Expert (WP8) and descendants are actually USEFUL unlike that [] paperclip of MS. The templates and the question/answer of Perfect Expert actually help make a hard or unusual or uncommon report, form, etc. easy to make and to do it correctly. As for the rest of the Suite: Presentations: Is almost comparable to PowerPoint Quattro Pro: is NOT as good as Excel, so if you need a spreadsheet as your main application then I highly recommend MS Office. If your needs are Word processing or SIMPLE spreadsheet functions then and only then is Quattro for you. And even then Excel is better. CorelCENTRAL: well . . . the previous versions where a flop, with good reasons, I am still evaluating the one in 2002 suite. Personally I think a true Outlook replacement would be much better, this would include the ability to just click on a button to send a document in WP to whomever you wanted. I am not sure if this is possible (read EASY) in the present suite. I do know you can, just not how easy it is, and therefore if I can teach my secretary (and other employee's) to use it. As for the relational database, hmmmm well, its easier to use than Access but not as powerful, on the other hand if something is powerful but not easy to use, its useless. MS AND Corel need to work on their respective relational databases. In this respect I would say that for me MS is better but then again I find that even now, 8 years after the venerable 6.1b WP suite and office 95, I STILL need both MS office AND Corel WP suites to be functional in my office. Fact is that for my varied uses, I have to say I need WordPerfect, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, (though I kinda lean toward Presentations now), and Outlook. If you can find WP for about 2/3rds of the price and you're a small business, then WP is better for you. If you absolutely need the compatibility with MS than OpenOffice is better for you. IF you're an editor, publisher, author, student then WP is better for you, BUT you will have to have as a standby either OpenOffice or MS Office. If you're a big business, then you have no choice but to get MS Office. If you're an accountant, or deal with complicated spreadsheets, than Excel, and therefor MS office is a must. If your in marketing . . . hmmm, Presentations could be good enough, at least in 2000 version. I am still evaluating the 2002 version. I would lean toward PowerPoint and Word, only because it will be compatible with everybody else in the company, and if there is a marketing dept. then you're a big business. If you're an engineer: Use WP, and give the pointy haired bosses and marketing air heads some headaches. I mean hell, they do it to you, you might as well have fun with them. AND you will love the reveal codes function. I find the other add-ons of the suites to be useful. Usually I find that I prefer the Corel version over the MS version. Like the PhotoEditor, I prefer Photo house (as a simple picture editor). But that is partly just what you are accustomed to using. Photo house is better than photoeditor but not enough to brag about. I hope this helps you make an informed decision. Most of this advice is from experience. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)