Review by Jerry Saperstein

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.

Corel has done a good job of rescuing this program,. It has lots of neat features that you will not find in Microsoft Word.

I was particularly drawn to ePublisher, which facilitates the production of ebooks in MOBI and EPUB formats. This is a template rather than an integrated part of WordPerfect and for basic publishing tasks is easy-to-use and works well.

WordPerfect also has substantial PDF editing and creation tools, which are very impressive.

The integral Help file is excellent. The User Interface is streamlined and cleaner in some ways than Words.

File format compatibility isn’t very important to most these days, but WordPerfect can deal with more than 60 file formats in one way or another.

In all, WordPerfect can be a substitute for Microsoft Word and it has some features, like the much-storied REVEAL codes, thuat cannot be found in Word.

As for the other components of the suite, I have to get to them at a later date.

Jerry