In trying to compete with Microsoft Word, Corel has added to WordPerfect 9 some bells and whistles that can be maddening, although they're at least manageable. Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5 and Microsoft Office 2000. WordPerfect 9 with Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software leads off Corel Corp. s new professional office suite. In my view, WordPerfect 9 still ranks as the best of the big three word processors.
Most users don t want any more fancy features.
They merely want to type letters or memos and do basic formatting. WordPerfect has always been good for that. Simplicity was once its hallmark, but times are changing. WordPerfect 9 does some of the same things that are so maddening in Microsoft Word, but to a lesser extent. I hate it when a word processor thinks it knows how to format my documents better than I do.