Corel Home Office Reviewer’s Guide

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Reviewer’s Guide

Contents

Introducing Corel Home Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Customer profiles ................................................................................................ 2

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Suite-wide ........................................................................................................... 3

Corel Write .......................................................................................................... 9

Corel Calculate .................................................................................................. 10

Corel Show ......................................................................................................... 11

Sample workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Corel Write ........................................................................................................ 13

Corel Calculate .................................................................................................. 15

Corel Show ......................................................................................................... 16

Introducing Corel® Home Office

Corel® Home Office is a new office suite that’s ideal for the kind of work you do
at home. Whether you’re doing the family budget, completing school work,
preparing materials for volunteer projects, running a home-based business, or
simply catching up on work from the office, this streamlined suite is just what
you need.

As traditional office productivity software has evolved, the number of tools and
options has grown steadily. Power users, particularly those in enterprise
environments, require the high-end features and depth of control that can only
be found in a mature, full-featured office suite. But there’s also a significant
group of users who don’t need these extra features and the complex interface
that comes with them. They want easy access to the essential tools they use
every day. Besides, many home users would rather not pay for functionality they
never use.

Software isn’t the only area where this kind of shift has occurred. Many people
have changed their expectations for home PCs, too. Netbook adoption is having
a dramatic impact on the computer hardware industry. People want affordable,
portable computers that give them the core functionality they need —
anywhere, anytime.

Until now, netbook users had limited options for office software. Desktop office
software was typically too resource-intensive and demanded too much memory
space to run on these lower powered computers. While Web-based solutions
offer basic functionality, if the wireless connection drops, users can’t access these
tools at all.

Ideal for desktops, notebooks, and netbooks, Corel Home Office offers three
applications that deliver the most-used tools for office productivity tasks. Corel

Write for word processing, Corel

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Calculate for spreadsheets, and Corel®

Show for presentations give you the features you need right at your fingertips.

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Corel Home Office has a fresh, sleek interface that puts the tools and features
you use most front and center. This means that you’ll spend less time searching
through menus and dialog boxes. With the ability to work with Microsoft

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Office files, the power to create PDFs in all three applications, and multilingual
Unicode support, compatibility is a cornerstone of the suite.

Built to take advantage of the power of desktop computing, Corel Home Office
ensures that you always have the tools you need — even when you don’t have a
Web connection. The software is also breaking new ground by shipping on a
USB stick instead of a disk, making it easy to install on the go — even on a
netbook that doesn’t have an optical drive. With a download of about 100 MB,
Corel Home Office is easily installed on your computer. And once installed, it is a
fraction of the size of Microsoft

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programs like Office Home and Student (with
an install size of approximately 1.5GB). With this small footprint,
Corel Home Office won’t take up much space on your netbook, laptop, or
desktop PC.

Corel Home Office brings the power of a desktop office suite to the netbook.

Customer profiles

Consumers: Consumers include anyone looking for an easy-to-use and

affordable home office suite. These users may bring files home from the office
and need a seamless workflow with the tools they use at work. They could be
students who need an easy-to-use tool to create polished reports. They might
also be community-minded people who volunteer their time to create
newsletters, budgets, or slide shows that can be shared by e-mail or posted on
the Web.

Home-based entrepreneurs: Home-based business owners rely on office

productivity tools to write proposals, track finances, create marketing
presentations, and perform a variety of other tasks. They’ve worked with other
office suites, so they’re familiar with an office suite environment. It’s critical that
they're able to share documents with clients and suppliers, so they demand
compatibility with standards like Microsoft Office and PDF.

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Features

Suite-wide

Application Launcher: The easy-to-use Launcher gives you convenient access

to Corel Home Office applications and free product updates.

The Launcher lets you access Corel Home Office applications.

Give it a try

Launching applications

1 On your desktop, click the Corel Home Office icon .

2 Click one of the following:

• Start Corel Write

• Start Corel Calculate

• Start Corel Show

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Netbook ready: On a netbook, the Corel Home Office user interface

automatically resizes to fit onscreen without compromising easy access to the
tools you use the most. If you need even more room, pressing F11 hides the
tabbed toolbar to maximize the workspace.

Corel Home Office automatically resizes on

netbooks without compromising functionality.

Publish to PDF: Share documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows by publishing

your work to PDF — without any extra software. All three applications in
Corel Home Office let you easily publish to PDF, and you can e-mail them directly
from the suite.

You can publish to PDF and e-mail from any Corel Home Office application.

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