Customer Reviews

WordPerfect Office 2002 Standard Edition

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I have worked (had to work :-) ) with MS Word, StarWriter, WordStar etc. After almost 20 years of experience I can assure you: Nothing beats WordPerfect when you need a powerful yet easy to use wordprocessor. Don't worry about compatibilty with MS Word. WordPerfect imports and exports Word files just fine. If your primary concern is wordprocessing, get WordPerfect

Wordperfect is the best word processor in the world. I am not one of those nut-cases who doesn't know how to use anything else. I am very good at dozens of wordprocessing packages, I have been forced to use many of them. Wordperfect is more user friendly, more powerful. I can get my work done much faster. It is easier to do special formatting and make things look exactly like you want. Then, you can save it as a PDF without any extra software! This may not be a big deal, but wordperfect files are at least half the size (and sometimes up to 1/10 the size) of the exact same MS word document. This is another discovery that lets me know that the Corel software was created by better programmers. In addition, Corel support staff is much more friendly. When I bought my wordperfect, I was given my very own personal support guy. I never used him, because I am pretty computer saavy, but it did make me feel special.

I took classes in Wordperfect 8 and word. Wordperfect is better hands down. I have upgraded to 9 and I now have the full version of 10 with dragon. It has never crashed on me. I have a sony computer that came with 10 because it works so well with xp. I bought the whole version and I will not use word. It is to slow and is terrible for mail merge. The problems that these people are having is becuse they do not know how to use the program. I am also surpised that amozon does not say that it works with xp. Wordperfect 2000 does not work with xp put 2002 does. That is why Sony has it on all of there computers and not word. I am using the professioal ediditon. Sony put the standard with my computer and it work fine.

I am afraid this product has left me somewhat underwhelmed. Here are the list of my complaints;
After installation, I had to reboot the computer 3 times before all the products worked.
Corel presentations destroys all the icons my desktop and startbar each time I start it up.
Quattro will not import an Excel spreadsheet it if has a graphic in it. No error message, it just dies. Also, and I don't know whose fault this is, Quattro and Eudora cannot run at the same time.
The quick viewer that comes with WPOffice cannot read Quattro files without destroying them.
On the other hand, the star of the line-up - WordPerfect, is as solid and useable as always!

I tried to do a 500 name mail merge with Word Perfect and my computer crashed. And crashed. I paid their customer service to try and fix it, and the problem got worse, and they really didn't want to spend any time helping me. I wasted about 50 hours of time to try to get it to work, and finally gave up (I work in technology...) This use to be the most awesome software for word processing. Not anymore. Star Office is a dream, and I was so happy to switch to that.

I took classes in Wordperfect 8 and word. Wordperfect is better hands down. I have upgraded to 9 and I now have the full version of 10 with dragon. It has never crashed on me. I have a sony computer that came with 10 because it works so well with xp. I bought the whole version and I will not use word. It is to slow and is terrible for mail merge. The problems that these people are having is becuse they do not know how to use the program. I am also surpised that amozon does not say that it works with xp. Wordperfect 2000 does not work with xp put 2002 does. That is why Sony has it on all of there computers and not word. I am using the professioal ediditon. Sony put the standard with my computer and it work fine.

Corel was part of the bundled software on my new computer, and I have never been happy with it. The spreadsheet is not as useful as Excel, I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to get it to do a pie chart correctly. It never did. Linear regression formulas are next to impossible, too. The word processor freezes far too frequently, and for no reason whatsoever. Printing seems to be a catalyst for it's demise, but it still will randomly just shut down. The email program is a joke, I started it once and have never even bothered with it again, even Outlook Express is better. Corel office has only two redeeming qualities: 1) It will export to PDF format, and 2) NO OFFICE ASSISTANT!!
Additionaly, if you need to send a file to someone who has Microsoft Word, just forget it, because although it will save in Word format, it will transpose things and garble it.
I would recomend writing with pen and paper before using Corel WordPerfect.

I HAVE AN OEM VERSION OF OFFICE 2002 STANDARD EDITION AND I AM HAVING NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS. I CONSTANTLY GET A MESSAGE STATING THAT WORD PERFECT (10) OR QUATTRO PRO HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CLOSE. IF I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING THE INFORMATION I WAS WORKING ON MIGHT BE LOST. I HAVE DOWN LOADED SERVICE PACK 3 AND HOT PATCH 4 AND I AM STILL HAVING PROBLEMS. IS THIS BECAUSE I HAVE AN OEM VERSION OR WHAT? SHOULD I BUY A NEW PROGRAM OR GO UP TO VERSION 11?