Customer Reviews

Corel Family Pack 2009 [Old Version]

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I put out a newsletter for our non profit club and publish a few obscure local history books.

As a 20 year wordperfect (WP) user who has purchased previous versions of Word Perfect, I am really disapointed by the simplest of things. After running a computer with Win98SE and Word Perfect 6 and then going to a newer OS Win2000 and getting a Family pack that included Word Perfect 11. Now I am running Vista 64 and I find my previous versions of Word perfect can not be upgraded to run with Vista.

Fine I ain't so cheap that I can not buy a few new software products for my new computer.... so I buy the latest Family Pack with Word Perfect X4, and by Corels own product description, I expected it to be at least as functonal as the old WP11. But Corel is killing me, just to force users to buy a premium X4 version, this one does not come with a PDF converter, which all my old WP versions have. I can not throw away my old computer because I have to load my WP X4 files onto WP11 which will not run on my new computer. WP11 changes the format of the file, the number of sentences per page, etc... which throws off the formatting and alignment of my pictures and articles. So I have to realign everything and convert it using WP11 to make my final PDF file. It is almost less bother to do everything on the old computer as any editing would then need to be done on the old computer also. Thanks Corel, my gift to you is this loving review. The new program runs faster on the new computer but since I farm out my publishing, editing, and product, I need the PDF capability. Corel has made the program worthless to me by one stupid, greedy, basic function omission.

In the past, it has not been important to me that my friends and associates, and publisher did not use WP as I could easily generate a PDF to share. In a world full of software users provided for mainly by Gates Inc, Corel should know that if they disable their users ability to share files with most of the world their product is basically useless.

I would appreciate if anyone knows of a way short of buying Adobe Acrobat or the Word Perfect upgrade that will convert these files to PDF without messing up the format.

I can not find any low cost PDF converter that both works with Word Perfect X4 and that does not put an advertising logo on each page. I would not be half so mad about this if Corel would at least have let a buyer know ahead of time that they had removed the PDF converter from their low end X4 version. The dark side is so strong and calling, I am about ready to throw in the towel and use the free MS Word that is already on the new computer.

I guess if you need a word processor, without the ability to share files this program will be "perfect" for you.

I agree that Wordperfect is great and can't be beat. To get a document in this variation of the program into a pdf file open your .wpd file in OpenOffice and export it as a .pdf file. OpenOffice is free and runs on all versions of Windows. No need to spend money on Microsoft Office.........

We are very happy with our purchase of this product. It is working well for us and we received it in a timely manner!

of all, let me say that very often, purchasers of this product expect it to have all of the features of Word Excel, Access and so forth. This only creates trouble for the buyer as well as for the stores that stock the product. The Wordperfect Family Packs were never intended to compete directly with MS Office. For that, you would need to buy Office X4 Standard or Professional. Family Pack 2009 competes with Microsoft's similarly priced and featured "Works 9.0" suite. Having said that, Family pack costs twice as much as MS Works, but adds a few key features and leaves out others. Wordperfect Starter Edition is not as easy to work with as Works Word Processor, but it does add the feature of the "Reveal Codes" item. In addition, WP Starter Addition includes a document mapper that is almost essential in the writing of book-length. Works Spreadsheet is a delightful little program, but it does not compete at all well with Quattro.

In addition, the software comes with product demos and extras that really make the family pack what it is. All the same, the sometimes confusing keybindings and formatting make this a difficult program to learn even if he/she has had experience with other word processors

Overall, I would say that this rather counter-intuitive suite beats most of the products and features of Microsoft's products hands down. That is, if you learn to use it successfully. Highly recommended

THIS WOULD NOT INSTALL ON MY LAPTOP WITH THE VISTA HOME PREMIUM OS INSTALLED. IT GAVE ME A FATAL ERROR MESSAGE AND NO PHONE NUMBER OR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET CUST SUPPORT TO FIX MY PROBLEM. AND WE ALL KNOW SOFTWARE IS NOT RETURNABLE. THIS WAS MONEY WASTED !!! I'VE BEEN USING THIS SUITE FOR 20 YEARS. I WON'T ANYMORE. I'M SWITCHING TO OPEN OFFICE, WHICH IS A FREE DOWNLOAD.