Corel WordPerfect Office - X5 Reviewer’s Guide

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Contents

1 | Introducing Corel WordPerfect Office X5 . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 | Customer profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 | What’s included? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

4 | New and distinguishing features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Introducing Corel® WordPerfect® Office X5

The productivity market has changed a lot in the last 20 years; over the last two years, the pace of that change has been exponential. New players and business models have emerged that have expanded the scope of what is considered an office productivity changed, so have users’ expectations. But as always, the key to any new office suite is blending tools that users have come to rely on with new features that fit into today’s workflow.

The Internet is impacting every technology market because of its ability to connect people and provide a vehicle for collaboration. Market research indicates that business and government users are quickly adopting online tools to make their organizations more collaborative and efficient. Consumers, on the other hand, are moving slowly towards online capabilities as they weigh the value that online office tools offer against the kind of tasks they regularly perform.

As enterprises, law offices, and government departments have recognized and embraced online/offline tools, Corel has been at the forefront of integrating them into the office productivity workflow. With these users in mind, WordPerfect mesh with an organization’s workflows and backend systems.

These days people are just as likely to turn to an e-mail client for writing a note or memo. But when there’s more at stake — when an organization’s or a person’s reputation and image are on the line — that’s when users turn to the features that can only be found in traditional

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productivity tools. While addressing emerging trends is critical, so is adding to the value of the core office suite.

Drawing upon a rich history in office productivity innovation, Corel breaks new ground while still improving the office suit numbers, and ideas. Corel WordPerfect Office X5 redefines the office suite by providing

• The ability to use WordPerfect with document management systems, like Microsoft

• Web Services integration, so users have the time-saving capability of creating documents populated with data pulled from the Web.

• Enhanced compatibility, allowing users to open, edit, and save in Office Open XML (OOXML) formats.

•Nuance ability to easily annotate PDFs and integrate with scanners.

• Mozilla Office, a new integrated e-mail client and calendar that offers a tabbed e-mail view and powerful search tools.

• The new Reference Center, a redesigned approach to the Help system and tutorials for every part of the suite.

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Users want to take advantage of new technologies, and they also know that the work they produce with an office suite has a huge impact on their image and reputation. With that in mind, WordPerfect Office X5 is built on four key areas of focus. More tools that make life easier allow people to focus on what really matters — content. When it's more than a page, when there’s more at stake, users demand collaborative tools and formatting features that allow them to give their documents just the right look. File- format freedom is also a cornerstone because market-leading compatibility means users never have to worry about file formats when sharing their documents or working with others. And because every dollar counts these days, WordPerfect Office X5 is designed to be the right office productivity tool at the right price.

More tools that make life easier

Users want to focus on the details of their work, not the logistics of their office suite. They don’t want an office suite that makes them work. Instead, they need an office productivity tool that works for them. The legendary formatting features and intuitive user interface of WordPerfect Office help users effortlessly turn notes into powerful proposals and outlines into compelling slideshows.

Longtime favorites that make document formatting a breeze have been bolstered by a variety of powerful productivity features, including Web Services integration and PDF annotation tools. simple for anyone to produce creative, polished, and professional results.

WordPerfect Office X5

makes it

When it’s more than a page

WordPerfect Office X5 builds on a foundation of more than 20 years of constant design refinements to meet the ever-changing needs of government, law offices, small businesses, and home users. New Microsoft SharePoint capabilities offer enterprise-class collaborative features, making it easy for multiple users to finetune an important document. Delivering a legendary user experience found nowhere else, WordPerfect Office X5 provides unparalleled control over multi-page documents and features

famous for their ability to deliver results when it counts. Any e-mail client or word processor will do when writing a note or memo. But when it’s a multi-page report or when users simply need a document to look just right, stands out.

With a legacy of distinct features, such as Reveal Codes and comprehensive legal tools, WordPerfect Office X5 gives users the tools to produce their very best work. When it’s more than a page, that’s the time for WordPerfect Office X5.

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File-format freedom

Whether it’s in a law office or a home office, people are exchanging files and collaborating with others more than ever. Supporting more than 60 file types, WordPerfect Office X5 is designed to let users focus on the content of a file, not its format. With the ability to open, edit, and create OOXML files, WordPerfect Office X5 ensures easy collaboration with Microsoft Office users. And enhanced compatibility with binary Microsoft Office formats ensures that file content displays as it was intended better than ever before.

But what really separates WordPerfect from every other office productivity suite unique PDF capabilities. Offering the ability work with scanned PDFs, along with built-in PDF annotating, importing, editing and publishing features, it’s the world’s first PDF office suite.

The right price

For less than half the price of Microsoft® Office, WordPerfect Office X5 provides an incredible variety of tools in one value-priced package. WordPerfect Office X5 offers a range of powerful productivity tools that users would otherwise have to get from multiple sources: an office suite, enterprise-class online/offline collaboration features, and unique PDF tools. Backed by flexible licensing, enterprise-class professional services options, free online support, and a 20-plus-year pedigree in the office productivity business, it’s no wonder that WordPerfect Office remains the leading alternative to Microsoft Office.

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Customer profiles

Corel WordPerfect Office X5 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

WordPerfect Office X5 is specifically geared to the needs of public sector organizations, offering enterprise-class features, compatibility with Windows and strong support for open standards. In addition to its hassle-free licensing, WordPerfect Office X5 also supplies an open architecture, support for accessibility technologies, and flexible workspace-customization options.

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Legal

Small Business

WordPerfect Office X5 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.

Consumer

Customers shopping for software for their home PCs seek easy-to-use applications that help them perform a wide range of tasks — and WordPerfect Office X5 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.

Law offices, from solo practitioners to the largest firms, benefit from WordPerfect Office X5 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

Education

With professional-quality features, strong collaboration capabilities, and a value price, WordPerfect Office X5 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 X5 – Standard Edition?

Main applications

• WordPerfect® X5: Powerful and easy-to-use, this feature-rich toolset lets users do more with documents. Hassle-free formatting helps anyone easily create professional-looking letters, labels, fax cover sheets, brochures, reports, resumes, and more. Enhanced compatibility lets users open, edit, and create Microsoft (DOCX) files. Unique PDF capabilities allow users to do more with PDFs than any other office suite. Support for a wide variety of file formats — including ODF — allows for the creation of dynamic documents that can be easily shared with others.

• Quattro Pro application can help organize, analyze, and share important data for better decision making. With enhanced file compatibility, users can open, edit, and create the latest Microsoft features for creating budgets, invoices, receipts, and expense reports, so users can easily manage the numbers in their life.

• Presentations includes all the tools needed for creating compelling slide shows, proposals, demonstrations, interactive reports, and more. Enhanced compatibility lets users open, edit, and create the latest Microsoft PowerPoint projects can be published to HTML or Flash Plus, the self-contained presentations technology, Show On The Go user view a project — whether or not they use Presentations.

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• WordPerfect notebook provides a simple set of tools to take notes and quickly gather information and screen grabs from the Web, e-mail, and other sources.

• Mozilla Office: This easy-to-use mail client simplifies managing e-mail and scheduling. Integrated with WordPerfect X5, Mozilla Thunderbird lets users manage e-mail from other sources, like Gmail inbox. In addition, there’s a calendar application for managing schedules, tasks, and more.

• Nuance favorite document management software for the PC, Nuance and easiest way to scan, organize, find, and share documents and photos. Intuitive PDFannotation tools are the perfect complement to the PDF features in eliminating the need for any other PDF softwar

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Supporting Utilities

Content

• WordPerfect® OfficeReady™ Temp late 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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Office Conversion Utility:

Office Conversion Utility makes it easy to convert batches of any document type that WordPerfect X5 can open. For example, users can convert an entire folder structure of Microsoft Word documents to WordPerfect.

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• PerfectScript

: PerfectScript™ was

developed specifically for WordPerfect Office applications to help users create macros, recordings, and scripts.

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• QuickFinder

: QuickFinder™ is a powerful

utility that lets users 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 create custom pleading styles. It guides users through page, margin, font, line, footer, and signature settings, and can save pleading styles that can be easily reused.

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• PerfectExpert

: The PerfectExpert guides

users through basic tasks and helps create detailed projects.

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• The Pocket Oxford

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Oxford look

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gives users the ability to

spellings.

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XML Project Designer: WordPerfect includes its own XML Project Designer that enables users to define how various elements are to be displayed. These definitions are collected in layouts and are stored in the same XML template that contains the DTD.

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Address Book: The

Address Book is an information center that lets users store and manage personal and business contact information.

• 8,000 clipart images

• 175 photos

• 900 Tru eType

• One-hour training video from BrainStorm

fonts

Documentation

• Reference Center: The new Reference Center gives quick access to the main applications’ Help files, tips, and tutorials, so users can get to work in no time. There’s even a section that links to the Help for the writing, spelling, and grammar tools and tips for creating well-written, eye-catching documents and presentations. And for those who use the automation tools in WordPerfect Office X5, there’s a section that gives access to Help for using macro tools and migrating macros created in previous versions of the suite.

• Printed user guide: A 312-page reference manual gets users on their way to learning WordPerfect Office X5, its programs and utilities, and tools and support for macros and migration.

• User guide PDFs: Comprehensive user guides are available as PDFs providing detailed information on WordPerfect Office X5 WordPerfect X5, Quattro Pro X5, and Presentations X5. There are also user guides for creating macros using PerfectScript and VBA. In addition, a tutorial-based guidebook walks users step-by-step through some of the most common tasks in WordPerfect Office X5. The fonts and clipart manual is also included as a PDF.

• Accessibility features: Improved fontadjustment features make it easy to adjust the text size in the Help text. In addition, Help files are provided in plain-text format, for use with screen-readers.

additional features such as writing

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