Corel WordPerfect Office Home & Student 2021 | Office Suite of Word Processor, Spreadsheets & Presentation Software [PC Disc]

I used WordPerfect 30 years ago but our company went with Word. Now MS Office is horrible so I thought I would give WordPerfect Office a try. My biggest concern was saving files in the MS Office format and Wow, it's great. It allows you to save in MS Office files easily. It functions just like MS Office but I think it runs smoother. It was a great value. It is a one time payment unlike MS Office. I've now cancelled my subscription to MS Office and couldn't be happier.

EasyTo load but only one use

There was a lot of confusion trying to get it activated; but I finally did. It worked perfect for a while but then stopped working. Contacted customer service for the product and went through last two days trying to get it reactivated. I still have not gotten it reactivated after following all the steps I was given. Very disappointed with this situation since I cannot even us microsoft word; and I am a writer. I've put in my product key at microsoft help and followed the ridiculous steps to no avail. you should be able to show what you purchased and download it to your computer; but his has definitely not been the case. since I can't use it, I'd like a refund.FINALLY, IT IS ACTIVATED. I had to take it to a computer shop and pay him after I watched him calling out numbers over and over and using two shop phones and his cell phone to finally get it activated. You definitely need to change this activation system and make it easier for people.

Ages ago, I was a WordPerfect user. I recently returned to Corel after getting fed up with MS Office forcing changes and trying to format my work in ways I didn't want. I'd imagine some readers of this review have had similar issues as well as a whole new set of problems IF you're even able to turn off the auto formatting options. So let's focus on the product here though.WordPerfect has a few features that I absolutely love. First is that you can point the cursor ANYWHERE on the page and just start typing. No arcane combination of carriage returns and tabs to try to get the cursor where you want it. Second is the ability to put a box for a graphic onto the page, and then fill it with whatever you want. It's similar to desktop publishing layout control. Anything you write just formats around the boundaries of the graphic. If you do anything that requires a mix of text and graphics, WordPerfect is amazing. It's also easy to save documents in a PDF format with no extra software or plug-ins.The drawback for some people will be that the task bar isn't colorful and shiny like newer versions of Office. It looks like the old style Office before the big primary feature buttons were added. Personally, I'd rather have software than works than looks pretty.Corel's version of Power Point is called Presentations, and it's similar enough to the MS program that I think most users could easily switch.Quattro is the only part of the software package I have to knock. The controls aren't that clear and I couldn't even find the button to center data in the cell I was working on. All this could just be a lack of familiarity and something that could be cleared up with a few YouTube videos, but for now, I prefer Excel over Quattro, despite MS's annoying "I know what format you want better than you do" problem existing in Excel also.I gave the software a 5 star "Value for money" rating because I caught it on a huge Christmas sale. Corel also allows installation on two computers instead of one like MS. Also, IN THE PAST, Corel has been much freer with allowing re-installation if I replaced a hard drive, or a whole computer. I have no idea how cooperative they are nowadays, but I suspect little has changed there.

I mostly got this for the spreadsheet app. I worked daily with some pretty complex spreadsheets using Excel. Trying to create a spreadsheet using this app was pretty difficult because nothing well many things do not operate like Excel. Formatting and sorting even copy paste proved to be really difficult to do and it was not intuitive. I had to look up everything and still simple things like copy paste did not make it easy to do. I guess if you have used this application it would be great and I like that you can buy it and own it. If Microsoft had that option I would have bought that because I have lots of experience. I am only going to use it infrequently so I am not going to spend the time to get proficient on it. I went back to openoffice which had a difficult time opening one of the files so it took a few attempts to even do that.I am sure it does a lot of things but for me and your experience might be different is that it is not intuitive at all and even the photo app was a challenge to do even simple things.

Everything i expected at a good price.

Microsoft Word does what Billy Gates wants, WordPerfect does what you want it to do. I've used WordPerfect forever and it is much more flexible than Word. Word has a better spell/grammatic checker, but that is all. WordPerfect's reveal codes feature is worth the price as it allows you to get rid of problematic formatting codes. I primarily do word processing so I can't say much about the other programs. If it had a good email program, I'd ditch MS totally, but the government requires that we use it for many things.

only works on windows. still has the same bugs from 20yrs ago.