Review by Tyson

I use word processing software all the time. Lately it’s been either Microsoft Word or Open Office. I’ve been pretty happy with both. Word is significantly better if you’re doing any kind of fancy formatting, but Open Office works fine for simple text stuff - and since it’s free, that’s the one I use when I’m not at work.

I had not tried WordPerfect before but was excited to, since I’d heard good things about it. But.. I didn’t like it. Not at all.

The first problem, and biggest, is that it crashed every time I tried to open an existing Word document. It is supposed to be capable of handling practically every format, and yet any .doc file not created in WordPerfect crashed the software. I don’t know if this is my version of Windows or what (I have W7) but I was not happy about that. It pretty much made it 100% useless - I tried reinstalling and etc, but nothing helped.

But let’s say I did do something wrong and it’s my fault about the crashing, even then I do not like the software. I thought it was obnoxious, complicated and ugly. I hate looking at the screen. I hate zooming in and out. I hate changing the format. Again, maybe I’m stuck in my ways, but I don’t like it. My reasons may not be the best and are mostly cosmetic, except for the crashing, which literally happens all the time - right now, for example, it just crashed for no reason. All I was doing was testing some of the different toolbars! Still, I’m uninstalling it ASAP and going back to OpenOffice, which, generally speaking isn’t that great.

OVERALL: Don’t buy! I don’t know why it crashes all the time, but it does and the last thing you want is an important document to be ruined by terrible software. Even if that is fixable, however, I would not recommend it just out of user complexity. Download OpenOffice, it’s free and works much better.