Its been years since I used WordPerfect on a regular basis. Years back, when it was owned by different companies, I switched over entirely to Microsoft Word and used WordPerfect only when a project demanded it a situation that became never. Lately Ive also been growing fond of another word processing program called Scrivener which has many advantages for writers. My focus here will be n the word processing component, the eponymous WordPerfect, once the king of word processing.

Ive had a long time love/hate with Pinnacle. I started using it when it was an independent company and gave up on it when it was acquired by Avid, who (in my opinion) practically destroyed the application and provided simply awful customer support. Like many others, I abandoned Pinnacle. It was bought by Corel and I didn’t have high hopes for it. Much to my surprise, Corel after years of flailing is making a concerted effort to rejuvenate their acquired product lines.

I operate a one-person consultancy. Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 has a template for consulting firms with no employees. Sounds great, doesn’t it?nn Well it is and it isn’t. I can’t speak for other consultancies. Mine is very simple and this program is overkill. Installation is relatively straight-forward, although non-accountants (like me) will find the set-up just as mystifying as with any other accounting program. Operation is kind of on the slow side, but the user interface is good.

The firewall is awful. It cannot be turned off without also turning off virus protection. Not an intelligent design move. There are many reasons why you may want to turn off your firewall temporarily but retain anti-virus protection. Setting up port forwarding on the firewall is a pain. Performance takes a major hit from the firewall. I’ve turned it off. Anti-virus seems to be okay, though how is one really to tell?

My least favorite computer protection brands are Norton and McAfee. Norton has slightly improved over the past few years, but I still find McAfee to be bloated, intrusive, slow and determined to pound you into submission and renew it when your initial term is up. I also think McAfee is kind of sneaky in not making clearly apparent that you are signing up for an auto-renewal program. You can opt out of it, but it isn’t necessarily intuitive or swift.

Every time there’s a new version of PaperPort, I get it. I have this dream, you see, of living a paperless life, with every document scanned and organized and easily found when needed. All my clients are law firms, many of them large, with massively expensive document management systems. PaperPort wants to be a document management system for the ordinary person who has a limited budget. Unfortunately, PaperPort under its various owners has never been able to write a really stable version of the software - and PaperPort 12 is no exception.

One might feel pity for the creators and marketers of programs like Poser 9. They invest their all into a fine application - which this is - but the market is inherently limited to those who want to produce 3D renderings. There are many people who would love to do that, but it is a difficult undertaking. So the marketers claim it is an easy thing to do, that learning how to do it is simple.

Thank you for the prompt delivery of this product. It has out performed all the competitive products that I have used over the years and it has a backup routine built in to the product.

Ordered for my chiropractors computers. Shipped on time and protection is always up to date.

The easiest and most detailed financial capability system I have used. I would not hesitate to tell others about this product.