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Recently, I had an opportunity to test Corel’s current version, WordPerfect 11, which somewhere along the way morphed into a full office suite. But I was familiar with Word by that time too busy to go against the grain. After Corel took WordPerfect under its wing, I heard some good things about it, and even gave it a brief try somewhere around version 9. Microsoft kept adding features, Novell bought my favorite program and let it languish, editors started demanding files in Word format, and I-like most of the rest of the world-abandoned my old friend WordPerfect and adopted the same standard as everyone else. When I met my husband, I was using WordPerfect 6.0 and couldn’t believe that he-an otherwise intelligent man-used Microsoft Word. Even after Windows hit the scene and the graphical interface became the rage, WordPerfect still stood head and shoulders above other programs for those of us who made our livings sitting at the computer. I have fond memories of running WordPerfect on MS-DOS on my IBM PC-with its white text on a blue background-and having to memorize dozens of command codes. Perhaps I’m giving away my age here, but I remember when that was true. WordPerfect: the number one, best selling word processing program. Learn about an alternative to Microsoft Office TechRepublic Tutorial: Corel WordPerfect Suite 11 offers Microsoft Office alternative and improved compatibility