PERRLA

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My thoughts on PERRLA

- I have it and use it for any APA-formatted research paper.  I use the Word version on Mac.

- I love that it perfectly formats title page, headers/footers, block quotes, sections. That saves a lot of time and is a lot more accurate than the built-in Word tools.

- At least when I had them, it's clumsy to use it with the free Word versions you get from TESU or wherever, because (at east at TESU) the free version has some administrative permission set that prohibited installing plug-ins like PERRLA.  There's a kludgy workaround: You sign out of Word, then install the plug-in. But then eventually, Word bitches that you aren't signed in, and when you do, PERRLA breaks.  So that's a pretty serious deficiency.  (I bought an actual discounted Word permanent license to get around this issue.)

- I found the citation manager (at least for Mac Word) to be a mess. If you have citations with similar names, you can't easily identify which citation is which if you need to edit or delete them. So you have to painstakingly go through.  I ditched the citation tool in favor of Mybib.

- Their support is FAST and super attentive. They were open about the fact that most of the limitations (in things like the citation management) are limitations built into the Word plug-in system, but were quick to offer whatever workarounds they have.

Overall, I recommend it, still use it, and will renew it when it comes up later this year.

Thank you for this feedback - I'm currently working on getting a different version of Office rather than use Amberton's because even if I sign out, I can't install the add-on.