![]() The latest version of Corel's WordPerfect suite offers the familiar interface that government and legal communities require, plus a few well-chosen new features that mostly match long-established features in Microsoft Office.įor example, the suite now works smoothly with SharePoint servers, providing revision-tracking and version-comparison features, plus the ability to use a Web browser to view documents on the server (WordPerfect can now import data from Web services). ![]() But thousand of government and legal offices have been using WordPerfect for decades, and they don't see any reason to give up its very real benefits. WordPerfect Office is a commercial application that's still worth paying for because-despite its many limits and inconveniences-the WordPerfect word processor gives the kind of predictable, fine-tuned control over the format and appearance of documents that's almost impossible to achieve in Microsoft Word.įew individual users and fewer companies are ever going to switch away from a world-standard like Office-especially in its new and gleamingly usable Office 2010 release-and move instead to an outlier like WordPerfect. Open-source, freeware application suites like (Free, ) try to act as much as possible like pre-Ribbon-Interface versions of Microsoft Office, but the main reasons for using such programs are that they cost nothing and don't keep your data in proprietary formats. ![]() It provides a true alternative to Office, not a watered-down imitation, and that's exactly why it survives in a Microsoft-centric universe. ![]()
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