Review by Rawim

When I went to college, I actually used WordPerfect. It was what was used on my first computer at home. It is what I typed my first reports in. I craft my first term papers and kept notes in it, and did some of my first statistical analysis and graphing using Quattro Pro. Then I got a real job and joined the corporate world and found the ubiquity of Microsoft Office. And I had to learn Word, Excel, and Power Point etc. And while Microsoft Office is the standard, and you find it almost everywhere, I find myself missing WordPerfect and the other programs often.nWordPerfect is still and amazingly powerful word processor. It may not look as pretty as Word, but it has a lot less hiccups and once you learn the basic workings it makes it much easier to format documents then Word. Word in all its wisdom to try and figure out what it is you are trying to do does a lot of auto-formatting and getting it to stop can be tough, WordPerfect makes that much easier and much more straight forward, I imagine that is one reason it is so like by the legal profession.nQuattro Pro has all the processing power of Excel in my opinion, pretty much every function you have in Excel you have in QP. But it does have access to the add-in that you get with Excel, and so you lose some points there. But if you don’t have any fancy add-ins you can do your spreadsheet work and save in Excel format and everything works just the same on the other side.nThe Presentations X8 program is okay. For basic presentations it works very similar to PowerPoint, and can save in the PowerPoint format. Takes a little while to figure out but it works well. To be honest I don’t do many presentations, so I will have to update when I have more to say on this one.nThere is also a photo editing program which is nice with all the features you would expect, nice to have as Office doesnt offer their photo editing program anymore.nInstallation is pretty simple. It comes on a DVD, you have to enter the product serial number before installation will start. Took about 20 minutes to install and it was ready to go. Startup is quick and you are good to go.