Corel WordPerfect Office - X4 Reviewer’s Guide
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Reviewer’s Guide
Contents
1 | Introducing Corel WordPerfect Office X4...........................1
When It’s More Than a Page ................................................................................... 1
More Tools That Make Your Life Easier .................................................................. 2
File Format Freedom ................................................................................................ 2
The Right Price ......................................................................................................... 2
2 | Customer Profiles................................................................ 3
Government ............................................................................................................. 3
Legal ......................................................................................................................... 3
Consumer .................................................................................................................. 3
Small Business ........................................................................................................... 4
Education .................................................................................................................. 4
3 | What’s Included....................................................................5
Main Applications .................................................................................................... 5
Supporting Utilities .................................................................................................. 6
Professional Edition: Additional Applications and Resources ................................ 6
Content ..................................................................................................................... 7
Documentation ........................................................................................................ 7
Minimum System Requirements ............................................................................. 7
Installation ................................................................................................................ 7
4 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ........................9
5 | Top New and Distinguishing Features .............................11
Appendix A | Supported File Formats ...................................27
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Introducing Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4
In the last two years, the office productivity market has experienced dramatic
change. New Web-based applications, new file formats, and new user
experiences have risen to prominence as vendors attempt to turn new
technologies into a larger share of the highly profitable office productivity
market.
Corel® WordPerfect® Office has long been the leading alternative to
Microsoft® Office. And now, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 delivers an exciting
upgrade to the legendary office suite, directly addressing the needs of today’s
PC user, as well as the productivity technology trends of today and tomorrow.
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 breaks new ground as
•the first PDF office suite, offering import, edit, and export of PDF
documents.
•the first hybrid online/offline office suite, with new, Web-connected tools
for notebooking, data analysis, and collaboration.
•the first format-neutral office suite, offering support for more than 60
formats including Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML
(OOXML).
These exciting capabilities, plus new and classic features in WordPerfect® X4,
make Corel WordPerfect Office X4 today’s best office suite value.
When It’s More Than a Page
Ask Corel WordPerfect Office users what they love about the suite, and they’ll
often tell you that it gives them the features, formatting control, and results
that they desire but cannot find in Microsoft Office. Any e-mail client or word
processor will suffice for writing a note or memo. But when there’s more at
stake, such as when you need to produce a multipage report or when you simply
need a document to look just right, you need the unique features and user
experience of Corel WordPerfect Office X4.
In Corel WordPerfect Office X4, users will discover new tools for capturing,
organizing, analyzing, and sharing information. These new features combined
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with the traditional, trusted formatting power of Corel WordPerfect Office
increases your ability to create compelling documents, spreadsheets, and slide
shows.
More Tools That Make Your Life Easier
The Web has revolutionized the way we live and work. While the Internet has
given us unparalleled access to useful content and services, it has also vastly
increased the volume of information we must manage every day.
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 adds a range of tools to address the informationrich world in which we live, by bringing the best of the Web into the office suite
while keeping word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools where you
want them — on your desktop.
But that’s just the beginning. Longtime favorites that make document
formatting a breeze have been bolstered by a variety of handy, timesaving
additions to the suite:
• Corel® WordPerfect® Lightning™: This Web-connected digital notebook
helps you quickly and easily view, capture, and organize information from a
variety of sources — so you can use this information somewhere else.
• PDF: New tools for opening, editing, and creating PDF files let you get more
out of the PDF file format.
• Corel® Visual Intelligence™: This new business intelligence tool helps you
easily view and interpret complex data faster than ever before.
File-Format Freedom
Most PC users don’t want to worry about file formats. Most people would prefer
to open, edit, save, and send files with simplicity and ease. To that end, the
developers of Corel WordPerfect Office X4 have taken major strides toward
providing users with file-format freedom, adding File-Open support for the
latest Microsoft Office file formats (OOXML) and for Open Document Format
(ODF).
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 further extends its commitment to file-format
freedom by stepping outside the ODF-versus-OOXML debate to give users new
capabilities to import, edit, and publish to an open standard that is already
ubiquitous: PDF. By offering built-in PDF import, editing, and publishing
capabilities, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is the world’s first PDF office suite.
The Right Price
For up to 60% less than the cost of Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect Office X4
combines a full feature set, compatibility, and ease-of-use into one value-priced
package. Backed by flexible licensing, enterprise-class professional services
options, free online support, and a 20-year pedigree in the office productivity
business, it’s no wonder that Corel WordPerfect Office remains the leading
alternative to Microsoft Office.
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Customer Profiles
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 has been developed to meet the demands of the
product’s core users in the government, legal, and education markets, as well as
the needs of consumers and small businesses. Each of these customers share a
desire to achieve more with their documents and realize the savings of a
value-priced office suite that offers enterprise-class features.
Government
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is specifically geared to the needs of public sector
organizations, offering enterprise-class features, compatibility with
Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, and Microsoft® Office file formats, and strong
support for open standards. In addition to its flexible, hassle-free licensing,
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 also supplies an open architecture, support for
accessibility technologies, and a familiar, ribbon-free user experience that
doesn't require retraining.
Legal
Law offices, from solo practitioners to the largest firms, benefit from
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 through the suite’s advanced, intuitive formatting;
easily customizable workspaces and templates; powerful redaction tools; robust
PDF capabilities, including support for PDF/A; tools specific to the legal field; and
support for key file formats, such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Office, PDF, and
EDGAR®.
Consumer
Customers shopping for software for their home PCs seek easy-to-use
applications that help them perform a wide range of tasks — and
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 delivers. Home PC users require compatibility with
the latest Windows® operating systems, the ability to open, save, and edit in a
variety of file formats, and the tools to easily create good-looking documents
without being a software expert.
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Small Business
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is designed to meet the needs of value-conscious
small and home-based businesses, specifically those lacking a complex IT
infrastructure and having fewer than 50 employees who use PCs. These
customers look for software that lets them quickly create professional-looking
content and tools that help them accelerate their businesses through better
output, better analysis, or better presentation.
Education
With professional-quality features, strong collaboration capabilities, and a value
price, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is ideal for customers in the education field,
ranging from individual students and teachers to educational institutions of all
sizes. These customers share the need for low-cost software, flexible licensing,
Microsoft Office and PDF compatibility, and the ability to work with and share a
wide variety of content in both legacy and emerging file formats.
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What’s Included with
Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 – Standard Edition?
Main Applications
• WordPerfect® X4 — Better documents faster: This powerful, easy-to-use
word processor provides capabilities that simplify your work.
Groundbreaking PDF workflow enhancements allow you to create, open,
and edit PDFs from within WordPerfect X4. New support for OOXML and
ODF and continued compatibility with Microsoft® Word, means
WordPerfect X4 provides all the tools needed to create dynamic documents
that are easily shared with other computer users.
• Quattro Pro® X4 — Spreadsheets that enlighten: Highly compatible
with Microsoft® Excel, Quattro Pro X4 has been enhanced so that you can
open the latest file format from Excel (XLSX). This powerful spreadsheet
application can help you organize, analyze, report, manage, and share
important data and financial information. Quattro Pro X4 provides
easy-to-use charting features and advanced rendering options that give your
information a professional, polished look.
• Presentations™ X4 — Attention-getting slide shows: With enhanced
Microsoft® PowerPoint® compatibility, Presentations X4 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 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® Lightning™ — Web-connected note taking: Filling a gap
between today's desktop and Web-based productivity tools, WordPerfect
Lightning is the perfect digital notebook. It provides a simple set of tools
that make it fast and easy to capture, organize, and reuse ideas,
information, and images taken from documents or the Web. Use it to
capture notes or screen grabs or quickly view PDF, WordPerfect, and
Microsoft Word documents. You can also connect to a free online
collaboration environment, new to Corel WordPerfect Office X4. And when
you want to do more, send your files to WordPerfect X4 for the advanced
formatting and publishing options you need.
• Corel® Visual Intelligence™ X4 — Get your numbers to tell the story:
Get meaning, insight, and results from this easy-to-use business intelligence
tool. Corel Visual Intelligence gives you simple new ways to analyze complex
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data and explore information. This smart application instantly converts your
raw data into easy-to-read charts and graphs, which you can break down
and examine by category.
• WordPerfect® MAIL™ — E-mail at the speed of search: 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 X4 — Integrated graphics: You can use this
easy-to-use graphics tool to create and edit original drawings and pictures.
With support for many commonly used file formats,
Presentations Graphics X4 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.
• 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
Corel 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: A favorite tool among legal professionals, the Pleading
Expert is a step-by-step wizard that helps you create custom pleading styles.
It guides you through page, margin, font, line, footer, and signature
settings, and lets you save pleading styles that you can easily reuse.
• PerfectExpert™: The PerfectExpert guides you through basic tasks and
helps you create detailed projects.
Professional Edition: Additional Applications and Resources
• 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.
• Software Developer Kit (SDK): With the Professional Edition, an SDK is
included to simplify deployment and maintenance of the software.
• WordPerfect® Office X4 Deployment Guide: Included as a PDF file, this
step-by-step resource simplifies network deployment.
• Deploying Macros and Templates: Included as a PDF file, this guide
provides helpful information on sharing macros and templates with other
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 users.
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Content
• WordPerfect Office X4 includes 8,000 clipart images, 175 photos, and 900
TrueType fonts.
Documentation
• A printed tutorial-based 96-page guidebook walks you step-by-step through
some of the most common tasks in WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4,
Presentations X4, and WordPerfect Lightning (Retail version of
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 – Standard Edition).
• The guidebook is also included as a PDF.
• Help files with zoom options so that you can adjust the display size.
• The fonts and clipart manual is also included as a PDF.
Minimum System Requirements
• Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Business (32 Bit
and 64 Bit)* or Windows® XP Home, Media, or Professional Edition (with
latest Service Pack and Critical Updates)
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB required for Windows Vista)
• 466-MHz processor (Pentium® III or equivalent processor recommended;
800-MHz processor required for Windows Vista)
• 600 MB hard disk space for full installation of all included applications
• Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor with 800 × 600 or greater resolution
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or tablet
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
* At this time, Paradox and SDK are not supported on Windows Vista.
Installation
The installation wizard makes it easy to install Corel WordPerfect Office X4.
To install the software
1 Insert Disc #1 into your CD-ROM drive.
The WordPerfect Office X4 CD1 screen appears.
2 Select the WordPerfect Office X4 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
More PDF Support
• Use the built-in PDF capabilities directly within
Corel WordPerfect Office X4 instead of separate PDF-creation programs.
•Easily convert scanned image-based PDF files to fully editable text, using
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology.
• Add password protection to PDF files so that you can control who can
view, print, or edit them.
• Quickly preview your PDF files by using automatic PDF viewing.
• Get the most out of PDF files with tagged PDF support, which makes the
files fully accessible to those using screen-reading devices.
• Easily archive files with new support for PDF/A to meet ISO standards.
WordPerfect® Lightning™
• Save your ideas in notes, store information gathered from the Web, and
organize content in an intuitive workspace in the Navigator.
• Create basic documents, add snapshots of anything on your desktop, use
formatting tools to fine-tune your notes, and send notes to WordPerfect
from the Notes window.
• View Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and PDF files in the Viewer.
• Store files online, and collaborate with others, by using the Connector.
Corel® Visual Intelligence™
• Automatically create rich visuals from complex data in your spreadsheets
or live data from the Web.
•Easily identify trends in your data.
• Intuitively tailor data analysis with a single click.
• Perform “What-If” analyses to explore to your options.
• Share your findings by creating charts and slides.
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