Review by Daddy Dave

As a long time MS Office user, I was disgusted with their upgrade tactics, used feature-limited Open Office for years, then used Google Docs which has many limitations. I installed WordPerfick Office X7 trial. My first test was to create a chart from a *.CSV file which is a frequent task for my engineering work. The Quattro spreadsheet hung up trying to parse the data. I reformatted the data several different ways to make it easier and could never get it to work. MS Excel would have opened the file in seconds. Quattro couldn’t handle the import.

The next test was to open WordPerfick through their New Project interface which asks all kinds of questions about what kind of document. When I stepped through all that and WordPerfect was in the process of opening the new document and crashed, I decided the whole WP Office Suite was buggy and uninstalled it. I really wanted to find a reliable computer-based word processor! This isn’t it. Open Office is the only reliable non-Microsoft application available. WordPerfect has a sketchy history. I should have known.

My computer is a 5 year old 2.6GHz HP Desktop with 6GB RAM running Win 7-64.