Chapter 8. WordPerfect For Linux

Back in the days before Corel Corporation owned WordPerfect—in fact, before Novell owned WordPerfect, if you can remember that far back—WordPerfect was known as the best, most full-featured word processing program available.

WordPerfect, of course, is still giving Microsoft Word a run for its money in the Windows world. Some WordPerfect features—such as its table-handling abilities—are greatly superior to Word's capabilities in the same area. However, under Windows, which word processor you think is better is ultimately a matter of individual opinion.

The good news is that a world-class word processing program, Corel WordPerfect 8, is available for use with Red Hat Linux 6. Once you install WordPerfect, you'll ...

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