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Charles W. Moore - 2001.02.12
Don't like the overbearing bloatedness of Microsoft Word? Don'twant to cough up the hefty tariff for Word? Or just prefer to avoidMicrosoft software?
Despite the overwhelming hegemony Word currently enjoys in wordprocessing on both the PC and Mac platforms, there arealternatives. One is my personal choice - to use a small, agile,text editor like Tex-Edit Plus,BBEdit, Pepper, Style, or one of many others. There is alsothe formidable Nisus Writer. However, many Mac users may be unawarethat there is another option that offers high-end word processingpower - for free.
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. WordPerfect Viewer is NOT an editor: it converts your WPD documents into a format that can be read on your Mac. WordPerfect Viewer supports documents from most versions of WordPerfect, including WordPerfect 4-11 (Windows), and WordPerfect 1-3.5 (Mac). The official website for Corel Software. Get product information, download free trial software, learn about special offers and access tutorial resources. Dictionaries and thesauri for a variety of Western European languages are available free for download from Corel's FTP site at the following URL: In WordPerfect 3.5 for Mac OS, are there foreign-language dictionaries and thesauri available? Free Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack For Macintosh Now Available for Download. Ottawa, Canada August 19, 1999 Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR).
Not so long ago, there were two giants in high-end Mac wordprocessing - Word and WordPerfect. Back in the mid-1990s, Novell,which then owned WordPerfect, managed to beat Microsoft in gettingthe first PowerPC-native word processor out the door - WordPerfect3 for the Mac.
For a while during the Word 6 debacle, Macworld magazine evenrated WordPerfect 3 the 'editors choice' in Mac word processingapplications.
However, Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel in 1996; developmentof the Mac version of the application essentially ground to a haltin 1997, with Corel officially terminating support for it lastyear. However, as a consolation to Mac users, Corel commendablyposted a final build of WordPerfect for the Mac, version 3.5e(enhanced), which includes all upgrade patches that had beenreleased up to October 1997 as a free download on their web site.It reportedly includes some of the technology that was to be usedin the stillborn WordPerfect 4 for Mac. WordPerfect 3.5e is apretty cool piece of software for free, and for the past few days Ihave been using it as my word-cruncher to see how it performs underMac OS 9.1. I downloaded and installed the Mac OS 8.6-9 updater,and the application seems to work fine under 9.1.
Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh is a full,uncrippled version of WordPerfect. The free download consists ofthe WordPerfect software only. Clipart, web art, sounds, templatesand some fonts that are included with the full product are notincluded in the downloadable package.
No registration is required to install the product. However,customers are asked to enter their name, country, and emailaddress, and to complete a questionnaire.
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It had been several years since I used WordPerfect, and thisreview reminded me just how good and powerful this program is.While I won't be switching to WordPerfect from my AppleScriptcustomized Tex Edit Plus, for users who, unlike me, need to producedocuments that will be formatted for hard copy printing, or whojust like to have a full arsenal of word processing featuresavailable, this program is definitely worth a look.
WordPerfect 3.5 is an evolutionary refinement of versions 3 and3.1. The program's features include customizable tool bars andkeyboard shortcuts, a built-in graphics editor, tables, stylesheets, a macro language, full Macintosh drag and drop support, anequation editor, envelope printing, bookmarks and hyperlinks withina document or other documents, AppleScript support, WorldScript(foreign language) support, text-to-speech, an HTML editor, agrammar checker, automated tables of contents, on-the-fly spellingcorrection and watermarks. A 'Make It Fit' command automaticallyreformats documents that are just a little too long to fit on thedesired number of pages.
WordPerfect's clean, easy-to-use toolbars use plain-Englishlabels, and a master tool bar allows you to select with a clickwhich other toolbars you want to display. WordPerfect can alsoimport Word documents with stylesheets intact.
Another feature that WP has that Nisus doesn't support iskerning, and WP has an excellent table editor and bettercross-referencing.
WordPerfect 3.5's HTML editor allows you to import HTMLdocuments from the Web and edit them, or you can create your ownformatted Web pages from directly within WordPerfect withoutfooling around with manual HTML coding.
Missing in WordPerfect are integrated outlining, characterstyles, and the extremely useful true glossaries found in Word andNisus Writer.
WordPerfect uses about 10 MB of hard drive space - much lessthan Word demands.
The downside, of course, is that WordPerfect for Mac is nolonger being developed or supported, and there will be no OS Xversion (unless Corel decides to port their WordPerfect for Linuxto OS X). But for classic Mac OS users, it is definitely a viablealternative to Word, and the price is certainly right. And as longas Mac OS 9.1 remains the Classic support for Mac OS X, you won'tbe shut out.
You can download WordPerfect 3.5e for Mac from LEM's Dropbox.
A free OS 8/9 updater (also slows scrolling speed for 7x users)can be downloaded here.
WordPerfect Conversions 2.0 (Open/Save Most Types Of Files InWP)
WordPerfect Conversions 2.0 includes more than 40 conversions,to make the WordPerfect free download equal in flexibility to thecommercial product. Includes MacLink, DataViz, all popular graphicsformats, MS Word 6 and other word processors, Quark Xpress andPageMaker
System requirements:
- System 7.5 or later
- WordPerfect 3.5e
WordPerfect Conversions can be downloaded here.
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