Review by Heidi Anne Heiner

I hadn’t used WordPerfect in years and decided to give it a whirl when the opportunity arose. Overall, it’s a fine program. My favorite part of it is the level of control that I have as the user over my documents while creating them. It’s taken me years to achieve that level of control in MSWord and Excel and sometimes I still get flummoxed by those programs despite a high proficiency with them. That said, it is a Microsoft dominated world and the documents don’t always convert well to other file formats which makes the program somewhat unusable for me since I do a lot of document sharing. The interface is user friendly and mostly intuitive. It’s a good program except for the file compatability issues which means I won’t be using it much, but I do recommend it for basic home office or student work in which compatability issues and archival issues (will I be able to use the file ten years from now?) are not a problem.