When it comes to my affection for WordPerfect I feel like the "Motel 6" commercial where Tom Bodett closed the ad with, "We'll leave the light on for you" As a WordPerfect devotee, I have kept the light on for years, but now it's time to flip the switch.
This year I upgraded from WP 8.0 to 12.0. At first I was tempted to change but familiarity won out. I thought that in upgrading to 12.0 I would get serious improvements and easier use. NOT.
You are probably reading this because you have an earlier WP version, so I will not go into operating detail. I recently wrote a thesis paper with endnotes and found that the program could not change from letter to numbers once I started using letters to footnote. I had to go back manually and reset every endnote. Then the program continued to mark the footnotes incorrectly. When I sought help, I found that getting help was as problematic and quirky as the program.
There is no help by phone and the web page is as frustrating as the "help" in the program itself.
Almost 50% of the time the "help" in the program help does not "help" This should not be so. There are other glitches should not be in a program with this many years of production.
WordPerfect was once a great word processor, but today it can't contend with the monolithic Microsoft Word. Corel could have conceivably produced a product that gave Microsoft a run for its money, but they chose to tweak the program, adding a few more bells but no serious improvement for the average user. I could go on, but suffice it to say that if you're considering upgrading to WordPerfect12, don't. Sadly, after years of being a WordPerfect devotee I will do what Tom Bodett didn't - turn the light out and move over to MS Word. 1.5 stars