
When I type that and press the spacebar, WordPerfect appears. I got tired of typing "WordPerfect" so often, I put "\wor" in the table. Some tricks to help heavy-duty writers include QuickWords. Even today it's useful to see where a stray return or tab is causing alignment problems. One of WordPerfect's big selling points before graphical interfaces took over the computer was the Reveal Codes feature.

There's a separate toolbar full of features like Pleading Designer and Expert Filler, Table of Authorities, publish to EDGAR, remove metadata and more. Lawyers, who may be the biggest paper-pushers of all professions, love WordPerfect. WordPerfect offers 900+ TrueType fonts, 10,000+ clipart images and 300+ templates. It may sound like WordPerfect X8 Office wandered far off-track and offers little value for the money, but that's just because it remains focused on serious tools for writers, presenters and spreadsheet ninjas. There are notes one can leave in the page margins, but they're fairly crude compared with comment features in competing products. It has a Reviewer's feature that only tracks different users typing in a different color, but doesn't tag who is who except by the color chosen. There's not really even a Track Changes tool for feedback from editors in X8. SharePoint integration file check in / check out is your only real online access, if you want to call it that. WordPerfect focused on building powerful tools for one computer-based user, not a collaboration tool for teams.


Those who still remember old WordPerfect function key commands, like F3 for File > Save, will have a pleasant flashback. Common menu items across all the major WordPerfect apps do the same jobs you expect in every program. Just as WordPerfect looks much like Word, Presentations looks much like PowerPoint and Quattro Pro looks much like Excel.
