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Word perfect vs MS word
Category: Computers Asked by: baseball2-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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30 Aug 2005 12:15 PDT
Expires: 05 Sep 2005 17:22 PDT Question ID: 562300 |
My laptop that I just purchased has wordperct office are (comparible to word, excel, and powerpoint). What is the difference? Is Wordpefect compatible to MS word? I am curiouse whether I should purchace MS word (I am a college student). Thanks. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: palitoy-ga on 30 Aug 2005 12:22 PDT |
Have you considered Open Office? This is an excellent FREE office suite that, in my opinion, is equal to (if not better) to both of the named products. It also handles Word Perfect and Microsoft Office formats making it an excellent choice for a student. http://www.openoffice.org |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: niles-ga on 30 Aug 2005 13:19 PDT |
Word Perfect and MS word are NOT compatible for I spent hours trying to open a Word Perfect document with Microsoft word and it came out in all caps and !@$#$^. I am not sure what the main differance but I am sure microsoft word has more features and is more widely used. Also almost every school uses microsft suite of word excel and powerpoint so you may want to get the microsft suite of word excel and powerpoint so you can work on school computers. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: wordsmth-ga on 30 Aug 2005 13:48 PDT |
And here's a third opinion! I've read reviews of Open Office that suggest a lot of potential, but not as much polish or integration as either Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Suite. However, I haven't tried it. Some people are real fans--like palitoy--and since it's free, you certainly could try it. Second, the WordPerfect Suite has some good products in it. I grew up using WordPerfect (well...actually...I learned on EasyWriter II back in the mid-80s, but that's another story) and it was, and still is, an excellent program. If you want industry-standard, sure, go with Microsoft, but at least (since your computer came with it) give WordPerfect a chance. I haven't run into the compatibility problem that niles mentions. You certainly are likely to run into problems if you try to convert complicated documents (lots of tables, macros, etc.). But I receive documents fairly frequently in WordPerfect (I'm an editor) and they convert just fine. Third, if you do decide to go with Microsoft, they offer some terrific discounts for students. Don't buy the regular edition of Office; buy the student version. It's the same thing, just much cheaper. So, in brief, I'd suggest: (1) Try WordPerfect and see if it works for you. (2) If it doesn't and you have no money, or like the open software concept, try Open Office. (3) If the first two options don't work, then buy the student edition of Office. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: myexpertsonline-ga on 30 Aug 2005 23:39 PDT |
Nice comments, wordsmith. And I highly agree. And I wrote a book on Microsoft Word. :) |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: aaronproject-ga on 31 Aug 2005 05:22 PDT |
I don't think they are comparible to each other. In my opinion, OpenOffice.org is better then MS Office, because it's free (Free as freedom and Free of cost). Basically, they are same in daily operation/daily use and OO.o can even open and edit files made by MS Office. If you save files in OO.o's format, the file size is even smaller than which saved by MS Office. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: owain-ga on 31 Aug 2005 08:35 PDT |
MS Word may be "industry standard" but it isn't even standard between versions. Depending on what your'e studying, it may be worth learning a *proper* text production system, such as LaTex. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: hunter713-ga on 31 Aug 2005 12:15 PDT |
One thing you should definately take into account before deciding on the "Teachers and Students" edition of MS Office is that, while the discount is valuable, you cannot buy an upgrade edition in the future to update your current version. You would have to buy a full version, which can sometimes (at initial release) cost over $250. |
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Re: Word perfect vs MS word
From: flpcguy-ga on 05 Sep 2005 12:10 PDT |
I agree with many that WordPerfect has always been easier to use and more full featured than Word. The best product doesn't always win. If you aren't a Word expert, using any version of WordPerfect is easier than Word, even Word 2003. There is a free MS add-in to Word that reads WordPerfect files, but it is better to set WordPerfect to save in the format most likely to be needed by readers. Typically, that would be MS Word .DOC. I prefer an open standard like .RTF but some fancy table features might not be saved. Note, Microsoft will abandon it's own Word 6 file format in the next version of Office leaving business users with no clear default file format. However, they have opened the old Word format as a free standard so it can be added to other word processing tools in the future. Open Office (.org) has a very good, free but large download workalike for MS Office which supports all MS Office file formats. Sadly, it's own default compressed XML formats are not readable by other apps however so be sure to Save As some other format if you use Open Ofc. I'm sure you will find WordPerfect does everything you need unless you just have to free-hand draw tables in which case you must use Word 2000 or later. |
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