Corel WordPerfect Office - X3 Reviewer’s Guide

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Table of Contents

1 | Introducing WordPerfect Office X3.....................................1

It’s Compatible .......................................................................................................... 1

It’s Easy to use ........................................................................................................... 1

It’s Feature-rich.......................................................................................................... 2

It’s Affordable ........................................................................................................... 2

It Makes Perfect Sense .............................................................................................. 2

2 | WordPerfect Office X3 Customer Profiles ..........................3

3 | What’s Included with

WordPerfect Office X3 – Standard Edition? ............................5

4 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features .........................9

5 | Top New and Distinguishing Features..............................11

Suite-wide................................................................................................................ 11

WordPerfect X3....................................................................................................... 14

Quattro Pro X3 ........................................................................................................ 20

Presentations X3 ..................................................................................................... 22

Presentations Graphics X3 ...................................................................................... 23

WordPerfect MAIL................................................................................................... 26

Paradox.................................................................................................................... 28

6 | Comparing WordPerfect Office X3 Editions.....................29

7 | Additional Services and Resources from Corel................31

Appendix A | Comparison of

WordPerfect Office X3 Editions .............................................35

1

Introducing WordPerfect® Office X3

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 WordPerfect
Office yet.

It’s Compatible

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? Customers 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.

It’s Easy to Use

WordPerfect Office X3 provides exciting new features that are designed to
reduce the need for software expertise. The user interface (UI) 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.

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It’s Feature-rich

WordPerfect Office X3 offers an outstanding collection of rich features that help
you get the job done. As the world’s only office suite that can import PDF files
without requiring additional software or expense, WordPerfect Office X3 makes
it easier than ever to repurpose content. A new Count button has been added to
the application bar, so the Word Count feature is now always just a click away. In
addition, the WordPerfect® OfficeReady™ template browser makes it simple to
find the perfect template for any project.

The recently introduced WordPerfect MAIL combines e-mail, calendar, and
contact management tools with stellar spam protection, innovative filing
capabilities, and ultra-fast search. To streamline workflow, the integrated
Presentations™ Graphics X3 makes it easy to create, edit, and reuse original
drawings and pictures in WordPerfect®, Quattro Pro®, Presentations™, and
elsewhere. You also get quick, integrated access to Web search functionality
and a variety of other online resources with the new WordPerfect® Online
Resources featuring Yahoo!® Search.

It’s Affordable

At less than half the cost of Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office X3 ensures that
you’re getting the best value for your dollar. Corel’s flexible licensing options
have recently won over high-profile customers, such as the United States
Department of Justice, the Canadian Government, and the United States Courts.
In addition, free technical support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
with the online Corel® Knowledge Base™, which contains answers to commonly
asked technical questions.

It Makes Perfect Sense

Renowned for its unique and innovative features, its enthusiastic and loyal user
base, and its 20-year reputation for delivering professional results, WordPerfect
Office is the world’s number-one alternative to Microsoft Office. It makes perfect
sense. In today’s market, customers are weary of rising costs and the expectation
of an exclusive commitment to a single vendor. WordPerfect Office X3 addresses
this concern and differentiates itself by delivering exceptional customer value. It
combines the features and capabilities that office-suite users expect with
outstanding ease of use, true flexibility, and an unparalleled ability for content
reuse. WordPerfect Office X3 has solutions designed specifically for government
offices, law firms, schools, businesses, and even home offices.

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WordPerfect® Office X3 Customer Profiles

WordPerfect Office X3 has been designed specifically for six key customer
segments, each with distinct characteristics and needs. To indicate which
features are most applicable to which customer segment, the following segment
icons have been used throughout this reviewer’s guide.

Please note that each icon denotes the segment for which a feature is most
applicable. The benefits of the features described, however, are not limited to
those segments.

Government

Public sector organizations, ranging from dozens to thousands of seats, require
low-cost, enterprise-class features, Microsoft Office compatibility, an open
architecture, support for open standards, ease of use, and accessibility.

Legal

Legal professionals and entities, ranging from small firms and solo practitioners
to large firms and legal aid groups, require advanced formatting, robust PDF
capabilities, legal-specific tools, and support for key file formats, such as
WordPerfect, Microsoft Office, PDF, and EDGAR®.

Consumer

Customers shopping for their home PCs seek feature-rich and easy-to-use
software to help them with a wide variety of tasks, including general
correspondence, home-based business projects, home office projects, school
assignments, family budgets, and work projects.

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Small Business

Cost-conscious, small- or home-based businesses, typically with fewer than 50
PC-using employees and without a complex IT infrastructure, require software
that allows professional-looking content to be created quickly.

Education

Education customers, ranging from individual students and teachers to schools
and other educational institutions of all sizes, share the need for low cost,
flexible licensing, Microsoft Office compatibility, and a user interface (UI) similiar
to that of Microsoft Office. Corel extends education pricing to not-for-profit
organizations of all sizes.

Enterprise

Private sector organizations, ranging from hundreds to thousands of seats, seek
a low total cost of ownership (TCO) alternative to Microsoft Office. Enterprises
need feature-rich, easy-to-use software, enterprise-class deployment and
network installation tools, Microsoft Office compatibility, an open architecture,
open standards support, regularly updated service packs, professional services,
training, and customization options.

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What’s Included with
WordPerfect® Office X3 – Standard Edition?

Main Applications

• WordPerfect® X3: This powerful word-processing application provides
capabilities that simplify your work. Easy to use and highly compatible with
Microsoft® Word, WordPerfect X3 provides all the tools needed to create
dynamic documents that are easily shared with other computer users.

• Quattro Pro® X3: Featuring enhanced compatibility with Microsoft® Excel,
this powerful spreadsheet application can help you organize, analyze,
report, manage, and share important data and financial information.
Quattro Pro X3 provides easy-to-use charting features and advanced
rendering options that give your information a professional, polished look.

• Presentations™ X3: With enhanced compatibility with Microsoft®
PowerPoint®, Presentations X3 includes all the tools you need to create slide
shows, project proposals, interactive reports and demonstrations,
multimedia presentations, flyers, signs, banners, and more. For easy sharing,
you can publish projects to HTML or Macromedia Flash™. Plus, the
self-contained presentations technology, Show On The Go™, lets any PC user
view your project — whether or not they use Presentations.

• WordPerfect® MAIL™: With lightning speed, WordPerfect MAIL finds
information buried by years of inbox, contact, or calendar clutter. In addition
to e-mail, calendar, and contact management, this full-featured, easy-to-use
application includes innovative filing capabilities and outstanding spam
protection.

• 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.

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.

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• 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.

• Pleading Expert: The Pleading Expert is a step-by-step wizard that helps
you create pleading cover sheets. It guides you through page, margin, font,
line, footer, and signature settings, and lets you save pleading styles that you
can easily reuse.

Additional Applications in the Professional Edition

• Paradox®: A relational, file-based database application, Paradox® lets you
store and retrieve data in a variety of ways. To help you track, organize, and
compile data, this complete desktop database solution stores information in
powerful, searchable tables.

• Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications: Microsoft® Visual Basic® for
Applications lets developers build custom business solutions by automating
and integrating off-the-shelf software applications to meet specific customer
needs.

• Software Developer Kit (SDK): With the Professional Edition, an SDK is
included to simplify deployment and maintenance of the software.

Additional Resources in the Professional Edition

• WordPerfect® Office X3 Deployment Guide: Included as a PDF file, this
step-by-step resource simplifies network deployment.

• WordPerfect® Office X3 Programming Guide for VBA: Included as a
PDF file, this new manual is a resource for developing and distributing
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications solutions.

• Deploying Macros and Templates: Included as a PDF file, this guide
provides helpful information on sharing macros and templates with other
WordPerfect Office X3 users.

Content

• WordPerfect Office X3 includes 9,500 clipart images, 175 photos, and 900
TrueType fonts.

Documentation

• Help files now provide Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons so that you can
adjust the display size.

• PerfectExpert™

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• Printed 256-page user guide
(Retail version of WordPerfect Office X3 – Standard Edition)

• The user guide is also included as a PDF.

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows® XP (Home or Professional Edition with latest Service Pack),
Windows 2000 (with latest Service Pack), or Windows 98 SE

• 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)

• 466-MHz processor (Pentium® III or equivalent processor recommended)

• 575 MB of hard disk space for minimum installation

• Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor with 800 × 600 or greater resolution

• CD-ROM drive

• Mouse or tablet

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or later version

Installation

The installation wizard makes it easy to install WordPerfect Office X3.

To install the software

1 Insert Disc #1 into your CD-ROM drive.

The WordPerfect Office X3 CD1 screen appears.

2 Select the WordPerfect Office X3 option to install the software, and

follow the instructions on your screen.
A message is displayed when installation is complete.

3 Click Finish to exit the installation wizard.

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Summary of New and Enhanced Features

Suite-wide

• Built-in publish to PDF capabilities make it easy and cost-effective to
share WordPerfect Office documents while maintaining control over content
and appearance.

• With WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, it’s easy to exchange
information with Microsoft® Office users thanks to enhanced
compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats.

• Easier to use thanks to a more familiar, intuitive environment with newly
updated, stylish buttons and toolbars that now support Windows® XP
default themes.

•The enhanced PerfectExpert™ provides easy access to an array of project
templates and, if asked, provides helpful advice for virtually any project.

• Enhanced multilingual character support ensures that extended
characters display accurately.

• Finding the right template has never been easier with the enhanced
WordPerfect® OfficeReady™ template browser.

•The enhanced Migration Manager makes it easy to retain settings from a
previous WordPerfect Office installation.

• Now accessible from the Start menu, Presentations™ Graphics X3 is
tightly integrated with WordPerfect®, Quattro Pro®, and Presentations™.

• Enjoy e-mail, calendar, contact, spam protection, and lightning-fast search
capabilities with the new WordPerfect® MAIL™.

• With WordPerfect Office X3 – Professional Edition only, take advantage of
the enhanced Paradox®

WordPerfect® X3

•The new ability to Import PDF files with WordPerfect® X3 makes it easy
to reuse text and graphics from PDF files without additional purchase.

•The enhanced Publish To PDF feature now converts WordPerfect
table-of-contents headings into PDF bookmarks for easy PDF navigation.

— a relational desktop database application.

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