Most Popular Office suites

  1. Microsoft Office for Mac 2008
  2. Microsoft Office 2007
  3. Microsoft Office Standard 2007
  4. Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (Home and Student Edition)
  5. Corel WordPerfect X4
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Top Rated Office suites

  1. Microsoft Office 2001: MacOS
  2. Microsoft Office XP
  3. Sun StarOffice 7.0
  4. Microsoft Office XP Pro: Win98/ME/NT4/2K
  5. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Standard Edition
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THE GOOD
Costs less than Microsoft Office 2003; Quattro Pro gets PDF export; WordPerfect strips metadata from documents and adds Yahoo Web search.

THE BAD
PDF-import feature needs work; no free phone support.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Corel WordPerfect Office X3 is a very good productivity suite with enough enhancements to warrant an upgrade. Microsoft Office users, though, should wait for Microsoft Office 12.

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Average CNET Reader Rating: 3.7 out of 10

CNET Reader Reviews

  1. November 12, 2006 12:14
    Mediocre
    1.0/5
    WordPerfect Office X3

    I purchased WordPerfect as an alternative to Microsoft Word. The font settings are totally awkward. If you want to change the font for the document, usually selecting all and changing it will work, but not in this progra...  read more »

    - RickBruce

  2. September 23, 2007 11:40

    4.0/5
    Wonderful.

    20 million users can't be wrong.

    Now if Mac and Open Office would only support Word Perfect...

    - Il Scutari

  3. December 19, 2006 05:44
    Terrible
    0.5/5
    I cannot believe that such a gadget friendly program is incapable of the most basic features! I love all of the extras, though not as good as they claim, but it really really will not print. In fact you will need to reinstall your printing softwere ...  read more »

    - Honeynine


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