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Writeall
Jan 23, 2003, 10:20:52 PM1/23/03
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I am not sure what happened to WordPerfect since Corel took over but it is
a piece of pure sh*t!!! I had to use WordIMperfect because it was a
standard wordprocessing software used in my office before I joined. But now
I have my way, I am relieved to trash the damn thing down the trash can!
a piece of pure sh*t!!! I had to use WordIMperfect because it was a
standard wordprocessing software used in my office before I joined. But now
I have my way, I am relieved to trash the damn thing down the trash can!
My frustration drastically reduced once I got rid of Word*im*perfect. Not
that MS Word any better but at least it the formatting problem isn't as big
as that found in the damn Wordperfect.
Greta Tropia
Feb 7, 2003, 10:09:40 AM2/7/03
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I couldn't agree with you more. I just picked up a second-hand copy of
Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 to install on my old P233. Within an hour of
installing it, I removed it from my computer - permanently. It's
horrible.
It took 3 attempts to install it because the setup program kept
screwing up. There was no way to get "autorun" to work (though it's on
the CD), so I had to start the setup myself. The first time, it
installed Microsoft Windows Messaging on my computer and then claimed
the installation was finished. The second time, the setup program
stalled and stopped responding right in the middle of installation!
Not a way to make a good first impression...
Once you get to the installation screen, it becomes obvious that Corel
WordPerfect Suite is designed to completely take over your computer.
Even through the "Custom Installation" dialog, there's no way to just
install one component of the suite - like say, WordPerfect. You have
to wade through menus and menus of components that it wants to
install, half of which it claims are "necessary" for the program to
run though they're clearly just add-on programs that aren't necessary
at all. What's even worse is that it went and installed several
components and add-on programs that I specifically instructed it not
to!
The installation itself is the longest and slowest I've ever seen - it
took a full 20 minutes, not counting the reboot. I can do a clean
install of Windows 95 in about 30 minutes.
The amount of system files and registry entries it added to my
computer simply has to be seen to be believed.
Once installed, the program kept freezing up in middle of the
simplest, most basic tasks you could ever ask a word processor to do
(changing the font, changing the margin, etc). Printing is the slowest
I've seen. The program flat out refused to open or import .rtf files.
Without my knowledge or consent, the installation even went and
associated *all* the graphic file extensions (.tif, .jpg, etc) on my
computer to WordPerfect. How thoughtful!
After an hour of this BS, I felt I had seen enough and I bid farewell
to Corel WP8.
I have been regularly using several fairly high-end, processor/RAM
intensive DTP and graphics apps on my computer for the past 6 years
and I have *never* seen such unstable, ill-behaved software before.
This experience has not only turned me off from WordPerfect, but it'll
be a cold day in hell before I ever install another Corel product on
my computer again. That such a well-established, high-profile company
can get away with releasing such complete and utter shit simply
astounds me. Are the programmers over there smoking crack? More to the
point - Are the devotees of Corel WordPerfect smoking crack with the
programmers?
Maybe WordPerfect was a good program at one time, but certainly not
since Corel took over. Corel seem to have a long and distinguished
history of aquiring excellent software (Xara, Micrografx, etc.) and
turning it into shit. Maybe I'm being unfair...maybe Corel have
"improved" the suite since version 8, but considering the general
trend in software over the past few years, I suspect not. If anything,
I bet Corel WordPerfect Suite 2002 is more bloated, slow,
idiosyncratic, buggy, and in general, more like the pathetic, failed
Microsoft Office knock-off it was trying to be in version 8 (not that
MS Office is really worth knocking-off, IMHO).
If you're looking for a good alternative to WordPerfect and MS Word,
check out WordExpress at http://www.mvd.com/wordexpress/. It's lean,
stable, full featured, easy to learn, and inexpensive. Combined with a
good bitmap editor and vector drawing program, there's nothing you
can't do with this program. You can import all your vector drawings as
.eps files and all your bitmaps as .tif's and resize them, place them
anywhere you like on the page, etc. It does tables, columns,
stylesheets, indexes, and everything else you'd expect from a word
processor. The printed output is excellent. Standard word processing
features aside, it's as close to a professional DTP/page layout
program as you're likely to come across for under $50. And no, I don't
work for the company :) I just happen to think it's a good program.
Also check out FreePDF at http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/freepdf.htm.
Installing this on your computer allows you to print .pdf files from
any Windows application. The output is excellent and (unlike Adobe
Acrobate Distiller), it's completely free. With WordExpress and
FreePDF installed on your computer, you don't have to worry as much
about word processor file compatability (which seems to be one of the
big reasons people go with MS-Word). If someone wants you to email
them your resume, just send them a .pdf. What they'll see in Acrobat
Reader will look and print exactly like what you sent them. If you
want to print a document you did at home on the good laser printers at
school, work, Kinko's, etc., you just print it as a .pdf, carry it
over on a diskette or CDR, and print it off there through Acrobat
Reader. The printed output will (in most cases) look excatly like your
.pdf did at home. There you have it! No more having to deal with
documents that change appearence from word processor to word
processor. It's interesting to think about why Microsoft have chosen
not to include .pdf support in Word, it being such a ubiquitous format
and all.
Ciao,
Greta.
Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 to install on my old P233. Within an hour of
installing it, I removed it from my computer - permanently. It's
horrible.
It took 3 attempts to install it because the setup program kept
screwing up. There was no way to get "autorun" to work (though it's on
the CD), so I had to start the setup myself. The first time, it
installed Microsoft Windows Messaging on my computer and then claimed
the installation was finished. The second time, the setup program
stalled and stopped responding right in the middle of installation!
Not a way to make a good first impression...
Once you get to the installation screen, it becomes obvious that Corel
WordPerfect Suite is designed to completely take over your computer.
Even through the "Custom Installation" dialog, there's no way to just
install one component of the suite - like say, WordPerfect. You have
to wade through menus and menus of components that it wants to
install, half of which it claims are "necessary" for the program to
run though they're clearly just add-on programs that aren't necessary
at all. What's even worse is that it went and installed several
components and add-on programs that I specifically instructed it not
to!
The installation itself is the longest and slowest I've ever seen - it
took a full 20 minutes, not counting the reboot. I can do a clean
install of Windows 95 in about 30 minutes.
The amount of system files and registry entries it added to my
computer simply has to be seen to be believed.
Once installed, the program kept freezing up in middle of the
simplest, most basic tasks you could ever ask a word processor to do
(changing the font, changing the margin, etc). Printing is the slowest
I've seen. The program flat out refused to open or import .rtf files.
Without my knowledge or consent, the installation even went and
associated *all* the graphic file extensions (.tif, .jpg, etc) on my
computer to WordPerfect. How thoughtful!
After an hour of this BS, I felt I had seen enough and I bid farewell
to Corel WP8.
I have been regularly using several fairly high-end, processor/RAM
intensive DTP and graphics apps on my computer for the past 6 years
and I have *never* seen such unstable, ill-behaved software before.
This experience has not only turned me off from WordPerfect, but it'll
be a cold day in hell before I ever install another Corel product on
my computer again. That such a well-established, high-profile company
can get away with releasing such complete and utter shit simply
astounds me. Are the programmers over there smoking crack? More to the
point - Are the devotees of Corel WordPerfect smoking crack with the
programmers?
Maybe WordPerfect was a good program at one time, but certainly not
since Corel took over. Corel seem to have a long and distinguished
history of aquiring excellent software (Xara, Micrografx, etc.) and
turning it into shit. Maybe I'm being unfair...maybe Corel have
"improved" the suite since version 8, but considering the general
trend in software over the past few years, I suspect not. If anything,
I bet Corel WordPerfect Suite 2002 is more bloated, slow,
idiosyncratic, buggy, and in general, more like the pathetic, failed
Microsoft Office knock-off it was trying to be in version 8 (not that
MS Office is really worth knocking-off, IMHO).
If you're looking for a good alternative to WordPerfect and MS Word,
check out WordExpress at http://www.mvd.com/wordexpress/. It's lean,
stable, full featured, easy to learn, and inexpensive. Combined with a
good bitmap editor and vector drawing program, there's nothing you
can't do with this program. You can import all your vector drawings as
.eps files and all your bitmaps as .tif's and resize them, place them
anywhere you like on the page, etc. It does tables, columns,
stylesheets, indexes, and everything else you'd expect from a word
processor. The printed output is excellent. Standard word processing
features aside, it's as close to a professional DTP/page layout
program as you're likely to come across for under $50. And no, I don't
work for the company :) I just happen to think it's a good program.
Also check out FreePDF at http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/freepdf.htm.
Installing this on your computer allows you to print .pdf files from
any Windows application. The output is excellent and (unlike Adobe
Acrobate Distiller), it's completely free. With WordExpress and
FreePDF installed on your computer, you don't have to worry as much
about word processor file compatability (which seems to be one of the
big reasons people go with MS-Word). If someone wants you to email
them your resume, just send them a .pdf. What they'll see in Acrobat
Reader will look and print exactly like what you sent them. If you
want to print a document you did at home on the good laser printers at
school, work, Kinko's, etc., you just print it as a .pdf, carry it
over on a diskette or CDR, and print it off there through Acrobat
Reader. The printed output will (in most cases) look excatly like your
.pdf did at home. There you have it! No more having to deal with
documents that change appearence from word processor to word
processor. It's interesting to think about why Microsoft have chosen
not to include .pdf support in Word, it being such a ubiquitous format
and all.
Ciao,
Greta.
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Damage Control
Feb 17, 2003, 9:55:11 PM2/17/03
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donotr...@mail.com (Greta Tropia) wrote in message news:<70291a9d.0302...@posting.google.com>...
> I couldn't agree with you more. I just picked up a second-hand copy of
> Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 to install on my old P233. Within an hour of
> installing it, I removed it from my computer - permanently. It's
> horrible.
> I couldn't agree with you more. I just picked up a second-hand copy of
> Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 to install on my old P233. Within an hour of
> installing it, I removed it from my computer - permanently. It's
> horrible.
The military purchased the old DOS version of Word Perfect, and gave
the company a huge boost by licensing millions of copies. It had that
old keyboard template, if you remember, and it was a pretty good
program (relatively speaking.) Computing was simple back then. But
Word Perfect was sold to somebody else before Corel, if I remember
right. Every company fixed bugs but then they caused more of them.
The company sold the source code to another company, and so on.
Pretty soon it was in the dumpster. The military wouldn't use it any
more either.
I give away a Microsoft Office 97 clone to my web site visitors. It
is the old "My Free Office" software suit. It's still available at
http://consumers.tblake.com/index.php?s=content&p=software
ch...@vcn.com
Mar 7, 2003, 11:59:41 AM3/7/03
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I would have to agree with all of the opinions regaurding Wordperfect.
My husband is setting up a new office and he had many of the same
software problems as you all did. He shared this information with his
boss and convienced him to use a different program.
My husband is setting up a new office and he had many of the same
software problems as you all did. He shared this information with his
boss and convienced him to use a different program.
donotr...@mail.com (Greta Tropia) wrote in message news:<70291a9d.0302...@posting.google.com>...
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