Section 7.57. WordPerfect

7.57. WordPerfect

Unfortunately, WordPerfect lost the battle with Microsoft Word on the Mac side pretty much the same way it did on the Windows side. In the end, before discontinuing WordPerfect for the Mac completely, Corel made it a free downloadin something called WordPerfect 3.5e, which you can still find floating around the Web if you look hard enough.

Even that version, however, is not a true Mac OS X program, and instead runs in Classic mode (Section 4.9.2.2). If you're a die-hard WordPerfect fan, your best bet might be to invest in Microsoft Word and capitalize on its keystroke-customizing features to turn it into a living simulation of WordPerfect.

Or, if you'd rather not spend a significant portion of your life's savings on a word processor, use the free Word-importing and -exporting features of TextEdit (Section 14.21.3).