Customer Reviews

WordPerfect Family Pack 4

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The Corel WordPerfect Family Pack is super value for anyone not needing a full professional office software suite (such as WordPerfect Office Professional or MS Office). The WordPerfect 10 wordprocessor is easy for the the beginner -- with the "Perfect Expert" to help and prompt you to your completion. Yet, it's fully featured for the advanced user. Included is Dragon NaturallySpeaking for WordPerfect, a utility that you train to your voice so that you can talk and it will type!! Also included is the Quattro Pro 10 (spreadsheet program), Avery DesignPro (similar to PrintShop), online Encyclopedia Brittanica, and McAfee VirusScan (virus checker).

It's a deal super deal for a super software bundle!

Personally, I dislike thinking that I absolutely must buy only Microsoft products just because they dominate the market. Frankly, I don't like feeling like a sheep and so I avoid Microsoft products whenever a viable alternative is available. Corel's WordPerfect Family Pack 4 presents a very viable alternative at a quite reasonable price. I've been a fan of the various versions of WordPerfect for more than a decade and it's still my word processor of choice -- and would be even if I weren't rebelling against the dominance of Microsoft. If you can cope with using something good that isn't what virtually everyone else uses, I think you'll like this product -- and save some money as well.

Honestly, if you do not have this software product in your collection, you are missing out a lot of great stuff here. The value that you are getting for your money here is worth every penny. From wordprocessing to photoediting I think this is 100% better than Microsoft Works Suite, the value appears in terms of more software and even hardware, I do not see anywhere in Microsofts Works where you are getting a headset, and Avery publishing software is truly exceptional I have version one of that software (it came with Office 97 Pro) and does every thing perfect, creating list, business cards etc imagine what you could do with this new version. Photo-editing software is satisfactory, its no Photoshop but it does get the job done. Lets not forget, Dragon Naturally speaking an excellent Voice Recognition software, it really takes the hassle from those who hate to type, one thing to remember, to get the best results from Dragon you have to practice, so that it can get use to your voice. You are also getting tons of Clipart, what else can I say but this product is better than MS Works Suite and is worth the [price]. Buy it you won't regret it.

Word Perfect Family Pack 4 is a great combination of programs. If you do not need the advanced features of a full version of Word Perfect, this one works great (also works with XP Home Edition). The drawback for me is that I need to open documents that were created in more programs than this version allows.

WP9 will open most documents (all I have tried) and works well on ME, but the spell checker (and other things) hangs up on XP Home Edition. (I have heard there are problems with the full version of WP10.) Avery Design Pro is a great program!

Always liked WordPerfect and the packaging in this group is great.

Had been looking for virus software anyway and when I saw the rebates offered on this suite thought I couldn't lose.

Gave it only 4 stars because manual is lame. Only limited info included and that is mostly for WordPerfect.

One warning tho', be careful when installing the McAfee. If you are a Windows 98 user you might run into some trouble especially if you have an older version already installed. (I had a demo/temp version that came with my computer.) Haven't looked, but McAfee customer service said there were instructions on installing this under those conditions on their web site. This bug will cause your machine to not boot properly; so make sure you visit the site first. Fix was straightforward and the rep was very knowlegdable and easy to talk to. Haven't had any trouble since then. Wouldn't let this stop me from buying the Family Pack or installing the McAfee.

Haven't sent in the rebates yet, but it is a shame that to get a decent manual to use with WP or Quatro it will cost more than the all of the software included in the pack. <sigh>

Corel claims this product contains WP10. The version is not the same as that shipped with its office products. It is slow. Generation of pdf files brings a 1.2 GHz, 512 MB mem system to its knees. It hangs while printing. Patches are not apparent on the Corel web site.

The program appeared to install correctly but when I try to access it the Word Perfect Logo comes up with no serial number listed, then an error box that it cannot initialize. The serial number was entered and accepted during installation. I spent an hour, at my expense(no 800 number) with Corel with no resolution. So now I have a program that is of no use to me.

I needed software that everyone could enjoy and use in the house. I was more than pleased with Family Pack 4, which helped us write reports, create posters, labels, everything.

We even have had a lot of fun using the talking (I think it is called Natural Speaking) feature.

I recommend this package, you will get multiple use of it.

This package states that it comes with WordPerfect 10 and nowhere does it say that it is anything but the FULL version. But it is NOT! After installing, I was astounded to learn that there is NO search function (Quickfinder)! I don't consider searching files to be some "full featured professional" function that can just be dropped from a "home" version-- it's pretty basic stuff. How Corel can just drop it is beyond me. Oh sure, it may be some third-party software that would have additional licensing fees, but give me a break! What good is a word processor without the ability to search its own files?!?! Shame on COREL!

I purchased this a few weeks ago with rebates as an incentive. The programs are great, and Dragon Speak is awesome. I had heard some bad things about it, but it has worked well for me. All in all, a MUST BUY!!!