WordPerfect ST differs from the DOS version most notably in speed and number of windows a user can open. On the Atari ST version, a user can open up to four windows (compared to DOS' two) and the application runs three to five times faster than the DOS version (depending on which update or patch is installed). This was possible because WordPerfect for the Atari ST was designed from the ground up and was optimized for the Motorola 68000 processor as well as Atari's GEM (Graphics Environment Manager) operating system.[78]

I have a windows service written in c# which reads the text from word documents (doc and docx) using VBA Interop. However on certain documents it seems to hang on the call to the Open method. It seems that the problem documents all have macros in them. The locally installed version of word has macros disabled and the code I use to open the document is as follows:

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