Corel Wordperfect Office 12 Standard Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
Buy New: $149.99
New (1) Used (2) from $49.95
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1297
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2
MPN: wp12engpcupg
Model: WP12ENGPCUG
UPC: 735163100730
EAN: 0735163100730
ASIN: B0001H9L5M
Release Date: April 21, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Powerful word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications | | • | Compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF, HTML, XML, and more | | • | Intuitive Publish to PDF feature; no need for additional PDF software | | • | Maximizes efficiency; versatile and easy to use |
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Product Description
Produce documents and office presentations that look great in multiple formats -- and much more! / Version Upgrade Enhance your personal documents with powerful graphics tools - Add 3D charts, tables, clipart images or your own artwork Publish directly to PDF with the push of a button Greater support for open standards like Quattro Pro 2, Presentations 12 with HTML, XML, and Microsoft Office products
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Still the Best February 27, 2006
Musical CPA (Westerville, Ohio, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After struggling with MS Word at work by fiat, I love to go home and use my WordPerfect. It beats MS Word hands down, if for no other reason than "reveal codes" making editing simple, fast, and easy. As frustrating as it is to work with Word, it's the exact opposite with WordPerfect. It's too bad the monolith of Seattle crushes eveything good in its path, because Wordperfect is so superior to Word it's downright laughable.
Wordperfect 12? Get it, you will like it!
 Word is much better! September 18, 2005
Catherine (Ashville, NC)
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
Due to my laptop crashing I had to use a rental computer to finish my novel by the deadline. I've used word to write 3 books, magazine articles and numerous academic papers and I've always found it easy to use and understand. Wordperfect is a complete pain, the help file is useless and the text often overlaps and looks like it is a typo which makes editing on the screen a nightmare. It was impossible to instructions of formatting a document for double spacing in the help menu (it only tells you that book reports should be double spaced, but doesn't tell you how to make it do it). I will be glad to get my laptop back and go back to work in Word.
could not reliably loads jpegs April 12, 2005
P. J. Clark (Seattle, WA USA)
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
I upgraded from version 8 to version 12 because I could not reliably load jpeg format pictures in v. 8. All jpegs were created using Photoshop 7 but only some random subset of them will load into Wordperfect. I have the same problem with v 12. (Microsoft Word takes all jpegs with no problems.) The same problem exists whether using Windows 98 or Windows 2000 professional so it is not likely the OS. This product is of no use to me; I have again wasted $150 on Corel Wordperfect. However this was their last chance with me. I guess, long live the Microsoft monopoly.
The better word processing program January 7, 2005
Jason P. Gold (Huntington Beach, CA)
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
I don't have much use for anything in the suite except WordPerfect. I've been using WordPerfect since before Windows, when it had a blue or a green screen, displayed mostly ASCII characters, there were no fonts except courier, and laser printers cost a small fortune. I work for a number of attorneys -- WordPerfect is the software of choice for wordprocessing in most offices I've worked in because, in my opinion, it is the better product for the job. It may also be because WordPerfect has been around for so long that everyone just migrated without changing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
When WordPerfect came out, it took over the market. When MicroSoft came out with Word, I had the feeling they did everything they could to make it different from WordPerfect just to use their power in the industry to take over the wordprocessing market, just like MicroSoft did with every other good software idea to come along. (e.g., Mozilla/Netscape, Norton Utilities.) I hate Microsoft's stupid animated paperclip -- it makes me feel like a 7 year old. "It looks like your writing a letter ..." Go away! It was amusing to watch it roll itself up and spit itself through some imaginary pinch rollers when you print a document. But only once. I want to tell MicroSoft to wrap that annoying the paperclip around their cable modems!! I'm an adult!
I have two versions of Word and WordPerfect 5, 7, 8, 10 and 12. (I just threw out 5.2 for Windows and 7 when I moved.) I use the MicroSoft product only when absolutely necessary -- usually because someone else needs the document in that format.
In my experience, Word does one thing better than WordPerfect - it works better (although not perfectly) with WEB pages better. It would be nice if WordPerfect went to the Web and got the pictures and had the resulting document look like the web page being pasted in. HEAR THAT COREL!?! However, I don't often copy entire web pages into my documents.
The reason I like WordPerfect so much is that it types more like a typewriter. You can set up and use styles if you want, but you can also just hit the tab button to indent the first line of a paragraph. If you want to change the margins for the entire document, you simply change the margins. The rest of the document follows the change. You don't have to change each paragraph.
In addition, you can get to the formatting codes. Hit Alt-F3 and the screen splits in half and displays all of the format codes -- bold, underline, tabs, indent codes, line spacing, column on and off, etc. Then you know exactly what you have done and fix and format it easily. This ability has proven useful on several occasions when clients, who insist on using Word for legal documents, cannot cajole Word to put their unruly documents into the format they want. (This is particularly true when using OCR with scanned or faxed documents.) By opening the Word document in WordPerfect, I have been able to use "Alt-F3" to identify the errant codes and quickly repair them. WordPerfect can then save the document in Word/RTF format with the problems fixed.
Working with columns is also easier. You turn on columns and tell it how many colums you want, set the width of each, and the space between them, and away you go. You have four types of columns to work with -- newspaper, balanced newspaper, parallel and parallel with block protect. It handles columns much better. I've tried the other software, and if you change text or printers, you can never get the columns to line up the way you want it. With Word, each colum change or page change seems to introduce new control codes, and a complete set of formatting, and you can never get it back the way you want it. I once tried to scan in a list of names and addresses which were in two or three columns into Word. Each name and address was placed in its own text box. I could never work with it.
The most prominent change between WP 10 and 12 is the workspace manager which allows you to switch between legal mode, original (classic) WordPerfect 5.1 mode (with the blue screen), legal mode, standard WordPerfect for Windows mode and Word mode. They have also included the ability to publish to Adobe PDF, HTML, and RTF/Word formats.
This is full featured software, and does everything I need. It handles tables, tables of content, tables of authorities, column sorts -- everything I need in a law office. Graphics can be dropped in with a click of the mouse. I'm considered to be almost an expert, and there is a lot I don't know!
Take time to get to know the software and you'll be glad you purchased it.
I recommend purchasing the stand alone student and teachers version as it contains all of the same programs at a lower cost.
Great Product November 13, 2004
Barry L. Johnson (Atlanta, GA United States)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
As a journal editor I use both Microsoft Word 2000 and WordPerfect 12. WordPerfect stands heads and shoulder above Word. Easier to use, more stable, more flexible, and more features. I found WordPerfect 12 to be a worthwhile improvement over version 11. Graphics are better and easier to use, in particular. It is a cinch to install and use.
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