The word processor is, perhaps, the key law office computer application, required by every lawyer (or the lawyer’s secretary) involved in virtually any size law firm and in any type of practice. This week I look at three programs designed to work with the latest versions of Microsoft Word for Windows (WinWord) and WordPerfect for Windows (WPWin).

Since the January announcement by Lexis that they will abandon CompareRite in 2002, and likely before that, DeltaView appears to be the leading program that compares two versions of the same word processor document. Deal Proof is an expensive program that gives a document a very thorough proofreading, but I’d be surprised to see a law office that couldn’t use it to produce better documents.