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WordPerfect Office 11 Upgrade

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I too am a prolific writer and I have always preferred WordPerfect over the clownish Microsoft Word that, as with all Microsoft products, is a simply Frankenstein of features lifted from the programs of other companies.

WordPerfect 8 was so buggy an inefficient that I came close to dumping the program. Happily, versions 9 to the present have been constant improvements over both its former incarnations and its competitors. I loved WordPerfect 10.

I now have WordPerfect 11. I admit I've only had it for a short while; so far, though, it has worked perfectly. It loads FASTER than former versions and certainly no slower than my version of Word 2002. It converts files to and from other formats. Publishes flawlessly to HTML and PDF. TextArt works much better than any previous versions or Microsoft's sad little imitation of it. It works perfectly with all my printers (and I have several types, models, and brands of printer rigged up to a wireless network) and I've had no problem -- with or without updated drivers.

I do admit with one embarassment -- that WordPerfect has nothing that comes close to competing with Mr. Paperclip, that cute little helper for Microsoft Word. I think if they had one, WordPerfect might sell a lot better.

I am reminded of a song from the sixties. It has become for me a metaphor for many aspects of life. It was called: It's the singer, not the song."

I finally decided it was time to upgrade from WP Suite 8 to WP Office 11 on my home computer, just because I wasn't getting very accurate file conversions from things I bring home from work where we use MS Office 2000. I was used to WordPerfect 7 and 8 adding very little to what WordPerfect 6 had, so I was surprised today when I started writing a document from scratch with WP11 and stumbled across some serious new features just in the font selection dialog! It's apparent that WP11 is more than just an updated office suite. It really is enhanced word processing like you'll find nowhere else.
For those of you wondering whether to switch from that other office suite, I can't count how many times I've been at work using that other software and thinking, "This would be so much easier with Wordperfect," or "Why can't I do that? WordPerfect will do that." Or, "You've got to be kidding. I've spent half the day trying to do this only to find out it can't be done, when I could have gone home and done it on WordPerfect in less than half an hour."
Seriously, folks, this is one of those good things that people just don't know about because all they've ever seen is Word. Check it out, it's really cool! (And it's cheaper.)

WordPerfect is simply better than the Big Alternative. It is simpler to use and it works intuitively. It also treats you like an adult: for example, you can place a button on your toolbar to close without saving or being prompted to save, which the Other Word Processor will not allow.

Its handling of columns, margins, tables, and in fact almost everything else is easier and offers more choides.

Above all, Reveal Codes (of which I understand the Opposition now provides a pale copy; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!) solves problems over which you could otherwise scratch your head for ever.

I know, I know, it is not the most popular choice. So leave the Big W to the lemmings, don't follow the crowd, go with what's Perfect!

I got to say that I was pretty skeptical when I purchased this. I work for a court reporting company that widely uses WordPerfect 5.1. Anyone will tell you that WordPerfect 5.1 was the best, but its beginning to get really hard to run it just right in the latest operating systems. What caught my attention about WordPerfect 11 was the Classic 5.1 Environment. With everyone working at my company on 5.1 It may be the way to go to get everyone up-to-date. Corel should have done this along time ago! My first few minutes playing around with it and reading the manual to get it into classic mode it was nice. The product seems to be pretty solid, unlike past WordPerfect Windows releases. I didn't do anything real in-depth: did some typing, printing and opening up some older documents save some new ones and see how they were cross compatible. Everything has worked great for me so far. This may be just what my company needs.

I've been using WordPerfect since the early Windows versions and this is the most stable release I've ever seen. They may not have added a long list of new features, but they tightened up and perfected the features that were already there. I don't need a lot of new features--I just want the features to work and I want the software to be stable.

Not to say that there aren't significant new features. The Document Map feature alone is worth the upgrade. Not to mention the integration with MS Outlook (document tracking, address book) and improved XML capabilities. There is a new conversion utility that allows you to batch convert your files and don't forget that WP has the most comprehensive list of conversion filters on the market.

They added the legal tools that were available in the Legal edition of WP8 - thank you Corel! And if you haven't used RealTime Preview, you haven't seen the coolest feature in the program. They expanded it in WP11 so it works in more places than ever. Take my word for it, once you've used it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

WP is the most cost-effective, easy-to-use, customizable word processor there is. Always was, always will be.

I upgraded from WP 8 and, after installing and using WP 11, I went back to WP 8. Biggest problem is that the upgrade is not seamless. For example, WP 11 does not fully support Corel Addressbook--they expect you to use Microsoft Outlook for your addressbook. If you want to continue to use Corel Addressbook, you get a scaled-back version of it which isn't as useful as the Version 8 Addressbook. Also, I had problems with some document conversion issues. On the whole, if I had to do this again, I would not buy this product.

I am not going to repeat the pro's and con's other people have written about WordPerfect. I have only one question today: Why is the WordPerfect unable to remove a simple bug in its Multinational Characters set? This set contains two characters, #1,206 and #1,207 (letters "Z" and "z" with a diacritical sign called hachek). These characters do not display on screen and do not print. If one needs to produce a serious text which requires these characters, one can forget about WordPerfect.

This bug sneaked into one of the earlier editions of WordPerfect. It was fixed in the SP3 of WordPerfect 9 and I thought that this solved the problem.

But the bug was re-introduced into WordPerfect 10, survived all its upgrades and merrily migrated to the most recent WordPerfect 11, including the latest update (WP11 00300). So much for progress.

Such a fault is unacceptable in a serious software, especially one that has the word "Perfect" in its name.

This program (my computer came with WordPerfect 11) makes even some of the easiest functions hard to use. It looks like MSWord, but a lot things are hard to find and are lacking. My biggest complaint is that you can't type Chinese characters on it. Without this, I can't do my work. Features such as "crop" "contrast" and "word count" and "header/footer" which would have been so easy on MS Word to FIND and CHANGE to my liking are now hidden from me (navigating is a huge pain!)or else isn't even available. I don't have time to waste trying to find ways to just type accents using the keyboard (which you can do on MS Word, wasn't able to find a way to do that on WPerfect, even though I used the help index)without having to go to the "insert symbols" button on the menu and choosing from there. Overall, although changing and playing around with margins and indentations are easier in WordPerfect than MS Word, it's still a huge pain to navigate and use. I hate WordPerfect with a passion. WHY did my computer have to come with this???

I have been a long-time fan of Word Perfect - since Version 4.0 days. But so far I have been disappointed with 11.0. I do not see much change from 11.0, the upload time is slow and it continuously freezes my computer (using Windows Me). In addition, I understood the upgrade was to include Paradox (database) but apparently it does not.

WP 11's previewer crashes the program every time you try to preview a document created with WP10 or earlier, or if you try to preview an MS Word document.

WP 12 is excellent. WP 10 is stable also. WP 11 should never have been shipped with its defective previewer. I was forced to reinstall WP 10 for day-to-day use. I used WP 11 strictly to create PDFs.

WP 12 has excellent stability and better functionality than WP11.

WP 11 is a defective program. I should be given a refund for the money I spent to buy WP11.

Skip 11 and go right to 12. The WP12 demo is available now, and WP 12 ships later in the month.

(I've been using WP since 5.0 in 1989)