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3 of 17 customers found the following review helpful:
 Question, 2004-01-14
I am here because I can't find anywhere else to ask a question.What are the licensing implications of buying a copy of WordPerfect Office 11 from jmurray36 for 49.95? This appears to be the same package that normally sells new for $249.00. How come? What is missing. How can it be sold for this price?
23 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
No image preview in this version, 2003-09-08
When I tried to insert an image into a document in WP 11 I got the error message "no viewer available." Several hours of repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling, and a phone call to Corel support later, I find out that this is NOT an error. WP used to include QuickView Plus, but Corel was not able to bundle it with WP 11. So there are no image viewers inside the program. If you work with images, beware!
39 of 70 customers found the following review helpful:
A prolific writer and published author speaks, 2003-06-13
I purchased this product hoping that Corel would finally have updated critical areas of WordPerfect's interface, fixed the frequent fatal bugs, and improved its overall performance. Instead, the first thing I noticed was the EXTREMELY slow application launch time of WordPerfect 11; its default configuration, makes it a slow overall performer and a huge system resources hog. The next thing I noticed was that various postscript (Type 1) fonts still fail to work with WordPerfect (e.g., ITC ZapfDingbats); this has been a major bugaboo since at least version 8. (WordPerfect also continues to install its own proprietary fonts, and its overall font handling remains non-standard for Windows platforms.) I contacted Corel's technical support, and they confirmed the existence of the bug, AND they don't know if they'll get around to fixing it! The saga continues. I exported various small documents from Lotus Word Pro 9.7 in an effort to get book styles, upon which I rely as an author, into WordPerfect 11 efficiently. These documents import into Microsoft Word XP acceptably. Not so in Corel's WordPerfect 11; the application constantly crashed while I was trying to fix the imported styles. Consequently, I tried saving the documents to WordPerfect 7 format from Lotus Word Pro 9.7, something that I should have done from the start. (WordPerfect's file formats have not changed since version 6.) The problem was not quite so bad when opening the WordPerfect 7 version of my Word Pro documents, BUT page margins, particularly in the footnote area, were bizarrely misaligned--and there was absolutely no way to fix the misalignment. And yes, WordPerfect 11 continued to crash-again and again. Then I tried to create the paragraph styles that I needed manually in a new document. And guess what? This heavyweight wordprocessor is nearly INCAPABLE of doing certain kinds of basic footnote formats that are easily accomplished within Lotus Word Pro; additionally, once the formats are more or less achieved, WordPerfect CANNOT maintain them automatically in additional footnote paragraphs. For example, while I was able to finally, after hours of tinkering, figure out a way to make a hanging indent-style footnote that actually looked great for the first paragraph, as soon as I hit enter to add a second paragraph to the footnote, the left indent was misaligned! To fix it, I had to insert an indent manually and then a tab at the start of the second paragraph. This should be childs' play, but WordPerfect 11 makes it a hassle. There are more serious issues. Corel advertises WordPerfect's real-time preview capabilities. What Corel doesn't tell you, however, is that none of the real-time preview capabilities function while editing existing text or paragraph styles; instead, the user is treated to a Reveal Codes window pane and several other dialogues that are at best cryptic, and very klunky to use. What about WordPerfect 11's built-in Help system? Not only has Corel changed WordPerfect 11's approach to the PerfectExpert, by making it an HTML pane with a few links and forward and back arrows-so that one can no longer enter a language-based query, but Corel's technical writers have emasculated what was already a pretty poor set of regular help files. Now when one uses Help to try to learn how to do something, much of the time all it displays is a statement or two bragging that WordPerfect 11 can do this and can do that and has this feature and that feature, but guess what? The Help files DO NOT TELL THE USER HOW TO ACTUALLY DO THOSE THINGS! Also, the help files lack definitions for common formatting items and terms. For example, what is a "decimal tab"? NOTHING! I am generally a very strong technical writer. I have been a senior software developer and architect since the 1970s. And last, but certainly not least, I am a long-time user of several heavy-duty wordprocessing applications. I came to Corel's WordPerfect 11 expecting to find a cutting-edge wordprocessor with robust long-document capabilities. What I have stumbled into instead is perhaps the clunkiest text formatting approach I have ever encountered in ANY wordprocessor. Also, the product remains highly unstable, and to boot, its feature set-with few exceptions (e.g., indexing)-and formatting capabilities are inferior to a little known but vastly easier to use rival-Lotus Word Pro. I don't use Microsoft Word because it is a basket-case to try to use for any kind of serious long-document work. I was considering giving up my long time use of Lotus Word Pro due to some performance problems of its own when it comes to long-document work. However, before using WordPerfect 11, I had NO IDEA just HOW GOOD I HAVE HAD IT with Lotus Word Pro; it not only continues to put Microsoft Word to shame when it comes to usability and often features, but Word Pro makes WordPerfect 11 look like a dinosaur ready to have its bones picked clean by the vultures soaring overhead. I'd like to see Corel thrive and prosper, but this little piggy just will not fly. Moreover, the changes between WordPerfect 11 and 10 really are relatively minor, as was the case between 10 and 9. In fact, the stability of 11 is NO BETTER. Corel has had years to update the product. Yet it remains incapable of offering real-time previews where they are needed most-the editing of styles. It's interface is obscure and difficult to use, making it a time waster. ... Vote with your dollars. ....
27 of 30 customers found the following review helpful:
 Printer Problems, 2003-06-11
I own both Wordperfect 9 and 11 and find that 9 is superior. Apparently in Wordperfect 11, Corel revamped the way the software interfaces with printers so all of the features of my printer (a new model Hewlet Packard Laserjet) do not work without going through several steps in the page setup. Further, Wordperfect 11 freezes up if one uses the latest printer drivers and only works with older versions of drivers. Plus, I bought the product with the understanding that it automatically converts batches of old wordperfect files. I have many documents in wordperfect 4.2 and 5.1. However, Wordperfect 11 does not convert batches of old files in 4.2 and 5.1. Other than above, the software is fine but you may as well stick to version 9 which is fabulous.
10 of 17 customers found the following review helpful:
 nice, 2003-05-20
i am one of 3 people left that uses corel over the M$ suite.
much better product. it is ashame the masses don't know this.
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