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Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) For the past year, ever since Microsoft's Office 2007 came-out, I've been in a quandary: I felt that Office 2007 had become too complicated. Well, let's face-it, there always was more that Office could do than you needed, but with 2007, and the "ribbon," I found myself playing "hide and seek" with Microsoft's programmers for menu items that were either relocated or deleted (for instance, the insertion of a date that will automatically update itself for a template must have been something "extra" that Microsoft feels it could do without). As recently as four years ago, I looked into WordPerfect Suite 12, but the lack of a mail program stopped me, now with X4 I feel confident enough to ditch Office; however, there are a couple of sticky points one must consider before abandoning the Microsoft ship. On the positive side: WordFerfect is truly an adaptive wordprocessor. It is, no-holds-barred, the most complimentary word processor I have ever seen. It even can convert files into Wordstar, which is a strange, insofar as I haven't heard of anyone useing Wordstar since 1990, and it handled the conversion of Word to WordPerfect, and vice versa, easily. It even opened and converted Word files to pdf files without any complications. For those who don't remember, Quatro Pro, originally developed by Borland, was the "plain English" command spreadsheet program that Microsoft emulated when it first developed Excel. I found Quatro Pro readily able to convert Excel files, and I found that it handled the equations fine in the files that I tried. I did find that sometimes the table boxes were in a larger size than the original, but this was easily re-sized, which I have to tell you isn't as easy with Excel. WordPerfect Mail turned-out to be the weakest of the included programs, in my opinion, but it did everything I wanted it to do. At first it seemed to rely on using Outlook's files to build its contact list, and would even import all of ones mail from Outlook. Contacts could be imported from Outlook via a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file that was easier to use between programs than it was when I imported contacts to the Microsoft Office for Mac's mail program, Entourage. I did find that WordPerfect Mail took up to a minute to load sometimes, which seemed odd, especially when no other of the suite's program had any delays in loading. When I purchased Microsoft Office 2007, I found myself buying the full product because I was tired of having to go through the loading of upgrade products until I got to Office 2003. When I upgraded my computer or had to restore it to the original factory settings, I was having to load Word for Windows 2.0, then load Office '97, then Office XP, and finally Office 2003. On top of this, with Microsoft Office 2007 it appears that Microsoft is so worried about piracy that Office 2007 interacts, via the Internet, with Microsoft so much that this has caused from problems for me when the Internet was reduced to a crawl, or my ISP's servers were down. WordPerfect Office X4 is still a stand alone product, and that is a plus. If WordPerfect Office X4 a suitable alternative to Microsoft Office 2007? Yes, and its price is more than competitive. Comment | Permalink | function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)