If you use WordPerfect Office X3 instead of Office, it's because you prefer the WordPerfect word processor to Word, not because you prefer Quattro Pro to Excel or Presentations to PowerPoint. Corel's Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Corel Presentations have a few conveniences that Office lacks, such as built-in PDF export and a full-fledged graphics-editing module, though Corel lacks the dazzling graphics and automation features that I admire (but seldom actually use) in the latest Office version.
The resemblance between WordPerfect Office X3 and Office is stronger in their spreadsheet and presentation components, where Corel offers programs that work more or less like older versions of Office. I use Word when I'm writing anything that I'm going to send to a magazine-partly because Word's format is the universal standard for documents that other people are going to revise and edit. As I'll explain in this review, it all depends on how you prefer to work.Īfter years of being frustrated in different ways by both Word and WordPerfect, I use WordPerfect for long documents and for documents where I need precise control over formatting. WordPerfect builds documents in a completely different way from Microsoft Word, and if you write anything longer than a business letter or term paper, WordPerfect's method of building documents may be better for you than Word's, even though Word can do many things that WordPerfect can't. But, at least in the word processor components of the two suites, the resemblance is only superficial. Furthermore, the menus in the WordPerfect suite look more or less like the menus in older versions of Office (before the debut of the famous Ribbon). WordPerfect Lightning for information gathering and collaboration.Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition, like Microsoft Office 2007, is built around word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and mail programs.Presentations for multimedia slideshows and.
In addition, the software is designed to open more than 150 types of files. According to Corel, PDF files can be edited and reused in WordPerfect and spreadsheets can be saved as PDF files. The company designed the software for Adobe Acrobat compatibility. Yahoo Search is embedded in the program for Web browsing, and collected information can be shared over the Internet.
The software is designed to allow users to view information from the Internet within the application and take notes and organize and save that information. WordPerfect Lightning, available for free from the company's website, is a word processor designed for note taking.
The latest edition of Corel's office suite includes basic office software, as well as WordPerfect Lightning, a digital notebook designed to assist research and Web collaboration. Corel recently debuted its WordPerfect Office X3 home and student edition.
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