Product Description

Get everything you expect in an office suite—and more! Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Standard Edition includes powerful word processing, versatile spreadsheets, multimedia presentations and new email with lightning fast searching. Open, edit and save Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files and PDFs. Create professional looking documents and presentations easily and quickly. Search the Web and access online tutorials right from WordPerfect X3. It’s so easy to use, you can get started right away—even if you’re new to WordPerfect Office! Additional new features save time and effort with ease-of-use and formatting feature enhancements including: the PerfectExpert, with its new templates and helpful advice; enhanced Word Count capabilities; the new Migration Manager; enhanced Paste without Formatting feature; New ability to view and print documents from within a web browser; enhanced charting and reporting tools; the new Presentations Graphics X3 graphics module; and more. To help buyers get the most of their purchase, each version of WordPerfect Office X3 also includes Getting Started With WordPerfect Office X3, a two-hour CD of training videos. Trusted by millions. It’s the office suite that makes perfect sense.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1771 in Software
• Brand: Corel
• Model: WPX3STDENGPC
• Released on: 2006-01-17
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 2.00" w x 8.00" l, 1.01 pounds

Features

• WordPerfect X3 for word processing.
• Spreadsheet application Quattro Pro X3.
• Presentations X3 for multimedia presentations.
• Includes the new WordPerfect MAIL email application.
• Suite-wide PDF export capabilities enable users of Corel WordPerfect Office X3 to turn documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDF files without additional PDF software, making sharing content via the open PDF format simple and cost-effective

Amazon.com
WordPerfect Office X3 is everything you'd expect from an office suite -- and more -- for less. Enhanced compatibility ensures that you can work with people who use Microsoft Office or other office suites. Each application in the suite has been updated with stylish new buttons and toolbars to provide more familiar and easy-to-use environments. With lightning speed, the new WordPerfect Mail application will find information in the most cluttered inbox. Plus, groundbreaking new features and enhancements, such as PDF-import capability, make this the most enticing and innovative WrdPerfect Office yet. See which version of WordPerfect X3 is right for you.

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Work in a familiar, comfortable environment by customizing WordPerfect Office to resemble the software you're used to -- even Microsoft Office. See it in action.

Search the Web and access online tutorials and resources right from inside WordPerfect X3. See it in action.

Stay in touch using new WordPerfect Mail. With this full-featured email client you can check and send email -- plus a whole lot more. See it in action.

Use the built-in PDF capabilities of WordPerfect Office X3 to share your work easily with everyone. See it in action.

Quattro Pro X3 provides great compatibility with Microsoft Excel. See it in action.

Great Compatibility
WordPerfect Office continues to break down compatibility barriers for its users. These days, who has time to figure out which product works with which file format? You want to simply and easily open, edit, save, and send documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows. To that end, WordPerfect Office X3 provides improved support for Microsoft Office file formats. In addition, the suite's built-in PDF publishing capabilities have been enhanced, making it easier than ever to exchange information.

Incredible Ease of Use
WordPerfect Office X3 provides exciting new features that are designed to reduce the need for software expertise. The user interface for each application has been refreshed, providing more intuitive, familiar environments. Context-sensitive toolbars make it easy to identify tools and features. You can copy HTML and paste clean, unformatted text. The unmatched Corel RealTime Preview lets you see how potential formatting changes will affect your work before you commit to them. To help new users find their footing, the Workspace Manager can simulate the keystrokes and menu items of other office suites, such as Microsoft Office. The unobtrusive PerfectExpert is a handy guide and consultant for virtually any project. Plus, two free hours of training videos by lynda.com are included on CD.

Standard Edition Applications
WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition includes the trusted power of WordPerfect X3 for word processing, Quattro Pro X3 for spreadsheets and charts, Presentations X3 for multimedia slide shows, WordPerfect Mail for communication, and Presentations Graphics X3 for creating and editing original drawings and bitmaps. In addition, the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, Legal tools, and the WordPerfect OfficeReady template browser are included.

On top of all that, WordPerfect Office X3 includes 9,500 clipart images, 175 photos, and 900 TrueType fonts.

WordPerfect X3: WordPerfect X3 provides exceptional ease of use and complete formatting control for producing newsletters, articles, reports, proposals, books, and other documents. The popular Reveal Codes, Corel RealTime Preview, and Legal features help reduce the amount of time you spend on document formatting, freeing you to focus on creating content. WordPerfect X3 also provides enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Word, the new ability to import PDFs, and robust PDF publishing capabilities, ensuring that you can freely exchange information with colleagues and clients, regardless of the software they use.

Quattro Pro X3: Quattro Pro X3 is a powerful spreadsheet application that helps you organize, analyze, report, manage, and share important data and financial information. Improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel ensures that you can smoothly exchange information with Excel users. Quattro Pro X3 also includes outstanding tools for creating tables, financial forms, lists, databases, charts, reports, or any other type of data-oriented document. In addition, you can easily present your spreadsheet data in charts, and you can apply advanced rendering to your charts to give the information a professional, polished look.

Presentations X3: Presentations X3 includes all the tools you need to produce slide shows, project proposals, interactive reports and demonstrations, multimedia presentations, flyers, signs, banners, and more. Presentations X3 provides enhanced compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint and enhanced PDF publishing capabilities. In addition, Show On The Go lets any PC user view your presentation -- even those who don't have Presentations installed on their computer.

WordPerfect Mail: With lightning speed, WordPerfect Mail finds information buried by years of inbox, contact, and calendar clutter. This new addition to the WordPerfect Office family is a full-featured, easy-to-use application that provides e-mail, calendar, and contact management. Without the complexity of Outlook, you can easily use WordPerfect Mail to connect to mail services from an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

WordPerfect Mail also provides innovative filing capabilities and outstanding spam protection to help you keep your inbox clean and tidy. In addition, WordPerfect Mail offers automatic features to manage mailing lists, distribution lists, and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds. Plus, you can feel secure knowing that they are avoiding viruses targeted at Outlook.

Presentations Graphics X3: For years, this easy-to-use graphics tool has been tightly integrated with WordPerfect Office. Now easier to access than ever before, you can choose Presentations Graphics X3 from the Start menu to create and edit original drawings and pictures. With support for many commonly used file formats, Presentations Graphics X3 ensures that you can reuse your graphics with other products.

Standard Edition Supporting Utilities

WordPerfect OfficeReady Template Browser: This template browser makes it easy to find the right template for any project. It provides thumbnail views of available templates that open with a single click.

WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility: The WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility makes it easy to convert batches of any document type that WordPerfect can open. For example, you can convert an entire folder structure of Microsoft Word documents to WordPerfect.

PerfectScript: PerfectScript was developed specifically for WordPerfect Office applications to help you create macros, recordings, and scripts.

QuickFinder: QuickFinder is a powerful utility that lets you find files by performing highly customizable searches.

Customer Reviews

A Quality Improvement . . .
If you look at my review history, you may note that I've given very few five-star reviews. I save five stars for outstanding products. I believe Wordperfect X3 is best described as outstanding.

A long time ago, I used Word Perfect. However, my earlier jobs required I use MS Word, so I did my best to become a Word guru. I believe I accomplished that short of creating custom macros. As a law clerk, I started a new job where WordPerfect was the standard.

So, last year I bought WordPerfect 12. At first it was difficult, but I bought a book that helped me fill in the blanks. With the ability to customize keyboards and the fact that WordPerfect gives the author a great degree of control (especially with show-codes), I was soon able to become a WordPerfect guru. I remembered all the things I used to love about WordPerfect. Like any lover, I also learned to ignore some of the blimishes of WordPerfect. (One of those blemishes is the behavior of pushing a change from that point of the document forward, which, once you get accustomed to it, is really a nice feature.) Wordperfect and PDFs are the two accepted file formats for electronic submission to Federal courts.

There were two complaints I found at work among Word devotees: 1) the ability to export to PDF but not import and 2) the inability to cut from a Word document into a WordPerfect document without creating all the formatting litter Word likes to use.

1. We occasionally receive PDFs that we would have to retype to be able to make edits. With the ability to import PDFs (that is, those that were authored and exported into PDF, not documents scanned into PDF), we were now able to edit those PDFs. This was a real time saver. Since PDF is the de facto universal standard amongst all platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix), this was a great improvement.

2. Formatting litter is a real pain to deal with. I never could get a MS Word document to just import into WordPerfect without headaches in trying to fix the formatting. My solution was to copy the portion out of MS Word, paste into a text file, copy again and then paste into WordPerfect. My complaint was I could not just straight paste into WordPerfect. Well, Corel heard my cry and provided the ability to copy just the text. The lone MS Word holdout in my office capitulated with that. He has no more to complain about.

Another great thing about WordPerfect is the fact that the file format for its documents has not changed in years (I heard a WP rep say no change since 1995). Why should it? Everything you could want to do in a document (perhaps barring professional typesetting) can be done in WordPerfect. There's no need to create a new format when the one you have just works.

This product does exactly what those who have come to love WP expect it to do. I think Corel has done a good job of resolving my own personal quibbles with WP.

So, if you're looking for a solid performer that seeks to beat competition by improving itself, WPX3 is representative of what you're looking for.

MS Word/Office -> WordPerfect/Office X3
I suspect most reviewers of this product are long-time devotees to WordPerfect. My experience is of having grown up with MS Word/Office - and the attendant bloat, the forcing to do things Microsoft's way, etc. I purchased the full suite from an Amazon reseller - sealed box, latest edition - for $30.00. Had I purchased X3 at the full price, I would still be delighted with where I am now. I once again am enjoying working in the word processing program. I have, on occasion, had to translate some documents for friends who don't know how to open a wp document in Word, but otherwise, I have not yet encountered a single problem. I am much, much happier working with WordPerfect and Office X3 than I ever was toiling under the bulk and bad guesses and forcing - so familiar to those who are toiling under Word. I did purchase Using WordPerfect Office X3 (Cue)at the same time I acquired WordPerfect, and have found this to be quite helpful in making the transition to a delightful word processor/office suite. Highly recommended.

Good product, does not do PDFs
I have been a huge champion of WordPerfect since it was written by Satellite Software Inc (SSI) about 200 years ago. I was forced into MS Word and it is not as good, but you get used to it. One caution, WP X3 does not handle PDFs at any useful level. Even simple PDFs had so many formatting problems, it was faster to re-create them by hand (which is not a fast thing).