Corel WordPerfect

Description

Corel WordPerfect is the word processing component of WordPerfect Office in the same league as Microsoft Word. It is rich in functionality and features, and powerful enough to handle typical word processing tasks and more besides. It provides good web publishing capabilities.

Strengths

  • The Variables feature allows a variable or placeholder to be placed in multiple locations in a document. WordPerfect automatically fills in all instances of the variable with text specified by the user
  • Built-in publishing to PDF, that supports hyperlinks and watermarks. Also the choice to save the PDF to document distribution, editing or the web. HTML publishing capabilities include cascading style sheets
  • Ability to open and save Microsoft Word files. Also the ability to save as a wide range of file types. For example, text, Lotus, Excel, Word, Quattro, RTF
  • Real-time previews of formatting options. Upon mouseover of each font, column, underline style, drop cap, QuickFont, outline, bullet or numbering its actual look is previewed. Also works for cell fill patterns
  • Reveal Codes lets you format documents easily and control features like underlining and bolding. If you have a problem, you can open the Reveal Codes window to see where the problem is and correct it from there
  • It has SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language) functionality to create, edit, retrieve, validate and save documents. Both SGML and XML allow you to create your own Document Type Definition (DTD) or use existing DTDs to define a document architecture and markup
  • Other features such as VBA Editor, Address book, Move the insertion point to its previous position and Autoscroll. Autoscroll lets you scroll without having to click on scroll buttons
  • Quick fill of table cells. Quick split of table cells
  • Good selection of drawing objects.

Weaknesses

  • The default Save as window is too small with lots of horizontal scrolling to view folders. However, it can be resized and even maximised.
  • Use of the term Grammatik for the spell checker range of tools.
  • Clicking inside a table removes the Styles drop down box.
  • After selecting the whole table you cannot scroll to another section of the document. It "bounces" back to the table.