One of the law firms we work with uses WordPerfect, and recently these exchanges have lead to extensive, wild and unanticipated changes in fonts, font sizes and margins. While we can exchange documents easily internally, exchanging documents with outside counsel has become a chore. While English is the official language of the company, we are not using the United States version of Word. I am an in-house attorney in the United States for a global software company with headquarters in Europe. These perform nearly all of the same functions, and the files are compatible across both platforms. Corel has established a presence there, with an office suite and a ported version of WordPerfect 8 that are even more affordable than the comparable Windows programs. Joel Brinkley must not be familiar with Linux. Rather than send an additional $100 to Redmond, I turned in desperation to Corel Presentations and found to my amazement that it was as functional as PowerPoint, could even open PowerPoint files and was available at essentially no cost. PowerPoint is not included in the usual small office suite that Microsoft has dragooned computer manufacturers into including in new machines. Corel, it's time to get off the stick and do some plain and fancy advertising and public relations about the virtues of Word Perfect to break Word's hammerlock on PC's.Īnother gem in the WordPerfect office suite: Corel Presentations is an excellent but largely unheralded equivalent to Microsoft's PowerPoint for presenting images via computer and L.C.D. Word is sneaky about not permitting you to use another system. It will work one way, but it absolutely won't convert a Word document to WordPerfect. That law offices and the Justice Department use Word Perfect is one of the best things I've heard about the legal profession.īut there is one problem with WordPerfect: While I can convert WordPerfect 6, 7, 8 and 9 to Word, I cannot convert Word to WordPerfect. Not only is WordPerfect's Reveal Codes function a real convenience, and not only is its price far lower than Microsoft Word's, but it is easier to use, requires fewer keystrokes and is less insistent on having its own way with the unwelcome insertion of extra numbers or letters in a list. Bravo to Joel Brinkley for singing the praises of WordPerfect ('It's a Word World, or Is It?' Sept 21).

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