Instead, in several attempts, we selected various versions of Microsoft Word to no avail. With its touted support for more than 60 file formats, WordPerfect X4 should have figured this one out. WordPerfect wouldn't let us back into the DOC file, claiming that it needed to convert the format and then giving us a list of several dozen options. We were extremely frustrated when opening a WPD file hid the DOC file we were composing. Unfortunately, we found it hard to manage multiple open documents, which appear under the File menu, and you can't flip between document open within an application using the CTRL-Tab shortcut. Luckily, we were able to cancel the action without losing our work. We also panicked when hurried typing led us inadvertently to hammer out a keyboard shortcut designed to configure PerfectExpert Projects. When we accidentally highlighted huge chunks of text, it wasn't as easy to let go as in Word. This also happened while running in Word mode. For instance, when we used the down arrow to move to a blank line, the cursor sometimes appeared in the center rather than on the left margin. (And they won't install at all on a clean Win 10 install.To get started on a slide show, Presentations offers many helpful templates, including those designed for specific purposes.Īs regular users of Word and Google Docs, we found that minor behaviors in WordPerfect were hard to get used to. And then I've seen posts that say they won't work properly. I've seen posts all over the internet that say if you upgrade to 10 from 7 that WP and other Corel programs such as Draw, Paint and Ventura 10 will work fine.

I could easily switch to Libre Office or almost any other word processor (except Microsoft) but for the macros. More importantly, I have a number of macros that I sweated over and I don't know if they will work with a newer version (last time I upgraded WP they had to be re-coded, IIRC). Yes, i know.'get a newer version.' But this is not an option for financial reasons, alone (and i hate having to purchase new versions of perfectly functioning software every time Windows puts out a new iteration. One of the most important (to me) is WordPerfect X4.

I resisted upgrading to Win 10 specifically because I had numerous 'legacy' programs that scuttlebutt (Corel forums) said wouldn't work with 10. I am upgrading my computer hardware and am thinking about upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. i got a notification to that effect and a suggestion to start an new thread. Mods-I posted this question in another thread that was several years old.

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