Product Description

WordPerfect Office X4 Standard Edition is the essential office suite for home and business users to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and manage e-mail. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Work with over 60 file formats, including ODF and Microsoft Office 2007. Save hundreds with the built-in PDF tools. Take notes and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. Easily interpret complex spreadsheets with a new data analysis program. And put it all together with online services (like eMail and shared calendaring) to help you work with others and stay connected.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1089 in Software
• Brand: Corel
• Model: WPX4STDENPC
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Features

• Includes WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, Presentations X4, WordPerfect Lightning, Visual Intelligence, WordPerfect Mail, WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility, Pleading Expert, and PerfectScript
• The leading alternative to Microsoft Office--includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations & email
• World's first hybrid on and offline office suite; first PDF office suite, supporting an advanced PDF workflow
• First format-neutral office suite, supporting more than 60 file formats including ODF, OOXML and Microsoft Office 2007
• Also includes a new research and notebooking tool

Amazon.com
Corel WordPerfect Office X4--Standard Edition is the essential office suite for home and business users to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and manage e-mail. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Save hundreds with the built-in PDF tools. Take notes and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. Also includes data analysis software to get insight from your data and online services to help you stay connected.

Easily open, edit and create Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files.

Tailor your work environment by customizing menus, shortcut keys and toolbars to your preferences.

Using Reveal Codes, you can quickly view and change formatting at any point in the document.

Identify the trends in your data and filter results to zero-in on important information with Visual Intelligence SE.

Corel WordPerfect Office X4--Standard Edition includes:

• WordPerfect X4
  Better documents. Faster.
  
  
• Quattro Pro X4
  Spreadsheets that enlighten.
  
  
• Presentations X4
  Attention-grabbing slideshows.
  
  
• Corel Visual Intelligence SE*
  Data analysis software.
  
  
• Corel WordPerfect Lightning
  Web connected digital notebook.
  
  
• WordPerfect MAIL
  Change your outlook on email
  
  

Also included:

• 75+ WordPerfect OfficeReady templates and browser
• The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary electronic dictionary
• Presentations Graphics X4 drawing application
• 175 digital photos
• 8,000 clipart images
• 900 TrueType fonts
• WordPerfect XML Project Designer to create XML projects
• Conversion Utility to batch convert Microsoft Word files to WordPerfect
• WordPerfect Address Book to manage contacts

Compatible

Work with Microsoft Office users
Easily open, edit and create Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files.*

File Compatibility
Open new and old files with broad support for over 60 file formats, including current open standards such as OOXML and ODF. In fact, open older Microsoft files that even Microsoft Office 2007 can't open.

Choose Your Work Environment
Are you new to WordPerfect Office? Use the Workspace Manager to automatically adopt the familiar keystrokes and menus of Microsoft Office.

Open Document Format (ODF)
Open and edit ODF word-processing files, the ISO-standard for storing and archiving documents.

Windows Vista and Windows XP Support
Work with the latest Microsoft operating systems.

*Corel WordPerfect Office X4 will open the vast majority of files created in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Due to differences in the applications, on occasion a file may not open and,in some cases, formatting may not be identical.

Easy to Learn and Use

Being productive has never been easier
It's never been easier to get up and running with WordPerfect Office! New version includes "Getting Started with WordPerfect Office X4," a FREE training CD from lynda.com.

Customizable Workspace
Tailor your work environment by customizing menus, shortcut keys and toolbars to your preferences. Or switch to "Microsoft Office Mode" with a few easy clicks.

PerfectExpert
Get started quickly with the PerfectExpert, a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice. When you start a PerfectExpert project, the panel dynamically updates to provide guidance specific to the task at hand.

Reveal Codes
Reduce the time it takes to format documents, especially long, multi-page documents. By using Reveal Codes, you can quickly view and change formatting at any point in the document.

Make It Fit
Sometimes you have just a little too much to say in the space provided. This longtime favorite feature lets you select a block of text and instantly resize it to fit a specified number of pages.

Get started quickly with the PerfectExpert, a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice.

Turn your documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with anyone.

Take notes and gather information from multiple sources, including the Web, email and other documents with WordPerfect Lightning.

Feature Rich

More Built-in PDF Capabilities

Adobe Acrobat not required
Turn your documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with anyone Ñ without having to download or buy additional software.

PDF Import
Access and reuse PDF content directly in WordPerfect X4 Standard or Pro edition. Simply import the PDF, work with the text and graphics, then save the file to a wide variety of formats*.

New--Import Image-Based PDFs
With WordPerfect Office X4 Standard and Pro editions, you can easily reuse text by converting PDF files--even scanned, image-based PDFs--into editable text.

New--Password Protection
Control who can view, copy, edit or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition.

New--Tagged PDF Support
Ensure that the PDFs you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition can be read by devices for the visually impaired, meeting government accessibility standards.

New--Support for PDF/A
Easily archive files to meet ISO standards. PDF/A, the de facto archiving format, is a subset of PDF that excludes features that are not suited to long-term archiving, such as external document linking.

PDF File Size Options
The PDFs you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition can be output to a variety of media, including the Web, email or print. Tailor file size and printing resolution options to best suit the platform on which your work will be viewed.

New Online Services

New--WordPerfect Lightning--Web-connected digital notebook

• Take notes and gather information from multiple sources, including the Web, email and other documents
• Open and view PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft Word files with the Viewer component
• Organize your ideas and documents with the familiar folder structure of the Navigator component
• Get a FREE 200 MB online storage account plus other online services

Connect online
Communicate with free online tools directly from WordPerfect Office X4

Corel Visual Intelligence SE --Let the numbers tell your story.
Data analysis software

• Turn complex spreadsheets and databases into easy-to-interpret charts and graphs
• Identify the trends in your data and filter results to zero-in on important information

WordPerfect MAIL--Change your outlook on email
Full-featured email--send and receive email messages, keep track of appointments and tasks, manage your contacts, and rest easy knowing you're covered by top-class spam protection.

Rapid search
Lighting-fast searches of your Inbox, calendar, contacts and even attachments help find information in record time. Plus, get the latest news from your favorite Web sites with RSS feeds displayed right in your Inbox.

*Corel WordPerfect Office X4's PDF editing features enable users to open, edit and reuse the content of most PDFs.

Corel Visual Intelligence SE includes a free 30 day preview of Visual Intelligence Professional features.

Affordable

It's affordable
Priced at much less than Microsoft Office and with accommodating licensing programs, WordPerfect Office X4 continues to offer great functionality at a value price.

Free training
Get a free 2-hour training CD from Lynda.com to help get you started with WordPerfect Office X4.

Save money with built-in PDF tools
Why pay extra for additional PDF software when WordPerfect Office has PDF features built right in?

Save time with professionally designed templates
With WordPerfect Office X4 you get over 75 free WordPerfect OfficeReady templates for word processing, spreadsheet and slideshow projects, plus a template browser.

And more free extras...

• The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary electronic dictionary
• Presentations Graphics X4 drawing application
• 175 digital photos
• 8,000 clipart images
• 900 TrueType fonts
• WordPerfect XML Project Designer to create XML projects
• Conversion Utility to batch convert Microsoft Word files to WordPerfect
• WordPerfect Address Book to manage contacts

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Customer Reviews

Nice, stable product, lots of features, reasonable price
I've been using WordPerfect Office X4 Standard for a month now, and I've been very pleased.

Background: I received a new laptop computer for Christmas and hadn't installed a feature rich suite like this, and was using Microsoft Works in the meantime. I've used Microsoft Office 2007 at home and at work, as well as tried Open Office at home. The last time I used a WordPerfect product was back in the mid-90's.

I was pleasantly surprised, but yet skeptical that WordPerfect could put out a product to compete with Microsoft Office. Not only do they compete, but they compete well.

One thing that sets this product apart from Microsoft Office is the ability to create, edit, and even password protect PDF files. The only exception to this would be if the PDF that you are attempting to open was already password protected. In that case, you would need a different product if you intended to edit it.

This suite also includes WordPerfect Lightning. I have to be honest, I didn't have a clue what this was when I installed it. It's like a lite version of Microsoft OneNote. I didn't know how powerful it would be until I started putting it to use. Lightning is a digital notebook that runs swiftly and easily on your desktop (when it's opened). You can screen capture any portion of your screen at any time and save it to a neat, organized folder for later use. For example, if I wanted to copy a paragraph or an image from a web site I just click "snapshot" and then clip out the part I want and it immediately stores to a folder. I can then easily organize the folder of snapshots, type up notes, and then send the entire folder over to Word or WordPerfect and it instantly creates a document in those programs. This is nice for putting together random thoughts, reports, and organizing research. Students will love this when researching on the Internet for school. The only downside is that I could not figure out how to capture the url easily. I suspect it does capture the url for reference, but I didn't figure that out.

Next, the spreadsheet program, Quattro Pro, can run in Microsoft Excel mode which is great if you are comfortable working in Excel and know the menu layout and shortcuts. It also runs in Quattro Pro mode, or Lotus 1-2-3 mode. You can also publish your spreadsheet as a PDF right from the file menu. This a fully featured spreadsheet program that does not lack anything.

WordPerfect X4 also runs in four different modes, so you can work in the environment you are accustomed to. Those modes are WordPerfect X4, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect Classic 3.1, and WordPerfect Legal mode. This program is actually more compatible with older Microsoft files than the newest version of Microsoft Office. In fact, this can open more than 60 file types, even new ones like OOXML and ODF. If you are trying to learn a richly featured word processor like this one for the first time Corel makes it easy with several types of support. First, there are two hours of DVD instruction to get you started. Next, there is a hand-holding program called Perfect Expert that basically guides you throughout the entire document creation process. In addition, there is CorelTutor, which is a standard index/search for specific help items. For example, you can quickly and easily look up how to create footnotes by just clicking on CorelTutor, typing footnote into the search box, and then step by step instructions are displayed. Anything created in this program can also be saved as a PDF file. As for PDF handling, since it's converting it, the format will not be 100%. You may still need to go in and fix the document up, but regardless, you are now editing a PDF document without spending $279 on Adobe Acrobat Standard 9. In my opinion, this is a HUGE benefit to this software.

I did not try Presentations X4, but if you are familiar with PowerPoint, this is the Corel version. My son makes a lot of PowerPoint projects throughout the year at school, so this should come in handy. It says that you can publish your slideshow to HTML or Adobe Flash.

WordPerfect Mail is also included in this suite. I found it difficult to set up the outgoing mail server, but my incoming mail server worked. I emailed customer service to ask about specific settings to find out why my outgoing mail server is not working. I'm sure it's user error. The program is set up to automatically convert your existing Outlook or Outlook Express account, but does not have automated account set up for Gmail or Windows Mail. I hope to see this in an update in the future. We just have to set up the account the old fashioned way until then by putting in your outgoing and incoming mail servers, ports, passwords, and authentication/ssl settings.

Finally, this suite includes (free) a 200 Mb online storage account with a mailbox. You can receive/send mail, store pictures, documents, and mail, as well as share documents with one other user. Accounts needing more than 200 Mb of storage or more than 2 collaborating users will find the service gets pricey. The online storage account is especially useful for sharing lightning files.

Two final thoughts, since this handles more file types than MS Office and includes PDF publishing and editing, I would say to give this program some serious consideration. In one months time I have not had the program crash on me even once. It's very, very stable, and very rich in features, support, and training.

The final thought is to recommend that you install everything the first time. I left out Lightning and Mail during my first installation (thinking I wouldn't use/need them) but I became so impressed with the other programs that I went back and tried to install Mail and Lightning. For some reason on my Windows Vista computer it wiped out the rest of the programs and only left me with Mail and Lightning. Perhaps I did it wrong. It's easier to remove a program than to try to reinstall/install separate portions later.

I missed this wordprocessor
WordPerfect was my gold standard, way before Microsoft Word, which I ended up using because it was the standard at work.

This word processor does not hang up my computer like Word does, and it will process PDF files, which is pretty awesome. All in all, I prefer it to Word, and since you can go between formats, no need to use Word if you don't want to.

There are some intriguing online services that come with WordPerfect:

WordPerfect Lightning - Web-connected digital notebook
where you can compile information from the Web, email and other documents

Open and view PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft® Word files (viewer)

200 MB online storage account is included.

Supports older file formats, including out-of-date Word that Word won't support (cool if you have some very antique files.) You can configure the program to emulate Word keystrokes you are familiar with.

All in all, affordably priced and full of great features. Big thumbs up.

Excellent value and very capable
WordPerfect Office has always been a viable office suite but is often overlooked and eclipsed by MS Office when considering office suites. I personally have been using Lotus SmartSuite for years (an even more obscure packages these days), so I likely will have a different perspective than most people who try WordPerfect Office. I have used WordPerfect in the past, and though some of the features are familiar and comfortable, there are some appreciable differences between this version and the versions I used in the past.

Rather than address the whole suite in one paragraph, I will discuss the different applications individually. Obviously the applications integrate and communicate with one another so I will not spend too much time discussing that.

Obviously, the crown jewel of WordPerfect Office X4 is WordPerfect. WP has always been a very capable and reliable word processor, designed to be clean, clear and easy to use. Even sitting at a blank document after starting the application, the interface is clean and relatively intuitive. I especially like the visible margins that can be dragged and dropped right on the page, as well as the slidable tab stops and indent markers. The basic word processing functions are all readily available in the default toolbar and there are more toolbars that can be turned on and off. Complex functions and advanced features are available through the menu system. Adjusting setting is pleasure through the semi-graphic settings dialog, and everything I sought was well organized and straightforward.

I have imported some Word documents into WP, and the import is accurate in the majority of cases. Sometimes there is a slight reformatting that makes things look a little funny but it requires only a minimum of adjustment to correct. The only disappointment for me is that I could not import Lotus WordPro documents as well, but such is the price one pays for using older, obscure packages such as SmartSuite.

I have also imported PDFs - this office suite touts the fact that it can import PDFs so I have been putting that claim to the test. The imports are largely successful, save the occasional formatting glitch. For exporting, though, I have yet to see it mess up, though I have not tried to export anything complex to PDF. There seems to be little need for Acrobat with this suite, though the reader is still handy.

Quattro Pro is the spreadsheet application that comes with this suite, and it performs remarkably well. It is a fully capable program that can put together complex spreadsheets that are on par with that of Excel. And, it does an admirable job with importing and exporting too. It can import Lotus 123 spreadsheets as well, which is helpful to me.

Both WP and Quattro Pro have XML import/export capabilities too, which adds to their value if you need to work with XML.

A really interesting feature to me is WordPerfect Lightning, a virtual file cabinet for storing sticky notes, pictures, documents and other bits and pieces of information. It is similar in concept to Microsoft OneNote, though not as visually stimulating (or overwhelming). Corel kept it simple and as such the main window is more or less a tree view of documents that have been saved therein. Built in is a screen capture tool as well as a miniature editor for writing quick notes, and there's an interface to WordPress. This is absolutely one of the features of WordPerfect Office that I appreciate - I have always liked this kind of tool and I will be using it a lot to keep my stuff organized.

Presentations is the Corel equivalent of PowerPoint. I will confess to having not used this much, though I have tried importing PowerPoint slide shows. The import worked for the most part but some of the special effects are lost when the import took place. Otherwise, it appears to offer the same base feature set as PowerPoint.

WordPerfect Mail is the equivalent of Outlook. I am no fan out Outlook, so this application was worth a try. I found it to be functional and capable, though it does not have the same volume of features of Outlook. Then again, it does not have the same bloat problem Outlook has either. It bears a striking resemblance to Outlook Express, though the interface is slightly more cluttered and busy. It has built-in Bayesian spam filtering and a built-in calendar. It does NOT have a newsreader though, which is unfortunate but not unexpected. While it's a nice application and it is suitable for what I need, I do not feel compelled to adopt this application.

An extra application in the box is Corel Visual Intelligence, a strange beast that can be used to analyze data and prepare data relationships. While I have looked at it and it is an attractive application, this is not something I need and really did not give it a close look.

Included with the suite is a plethora of document templates, fonts, graphics and other goodies, as well as a training CD.

WordPerfect Office X4 is a very capable and admirable suite of office tools. It claims to be compatible with MS Office, and it is. It's Adobe-friendly too, which will present a cost savings. There are a lot of extras packed in to the package and a good help system to assist. Overall, this is an excellent package with outstanding value and I can recommend it heartily - I am making the switch.