For all the buzz about alternatives, many people (and businesses) are still more comfortable with , and Corel clearly courts such users who are looking for a Microsoft Office alternative. WordPerfect Office X6 isn't a major overhaul--the new features, including multiple-monitor support and the ability to create ebooks in the Amazon Kindle .mobi format within WordPerfect X6, are hardly jaw-dropping. But the suite has a slew of tweaks that certain users will welcome.

WordPerfect Office X6 adds some new software, including WinZip and WinZip Courier (for automatically zipping large email attachments) in all editions, and bundling Corel VideoStudio Essentials X4 in the $250 Standard, $400 Professional, and $380 Legal editions (but not the $100 Home & Student version). Existing users are eligible for $160 and $260 upgrade versions of, respectively, the Standard and Pro editions. (All prices are as of April 26, 2012.)

Along with the core applications--WordPerfect for word processing, Quattro Pro for spreadsheets, and Presentations--Corel packs in an array of other programs and utilities, most notably the WordPerfect Lightning note-taking app (a OneNote alternative), the Nuance PaperPort SE document manager, and (in the Pro and Legal editions) Corel PDF Fusion, a handy utility for managing and generating PDFs from multiple file types regardless of whether you have the applications used to create them.

Corel loyalists will continue to tout the control they get from the Reveal Codes feature, as well as WordPerfect's ever-strong support for legal documents, which is enhanced in this version by the ability to assign Bates numbering, the most commonly used convention for tracking legal and medical documents.