WordPerfect Office X5 Home and Student [Old Version]

by Corel

Product Features

• Corel WordPerfect Office X5--Home & Student Edition is the essential office software for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations
• Includes WordPerfect X5, Quattro Pro X5, Presentations X5, Corel WordPerfect Lightning, and a bundle of additional software and resources
• Create and share PDFs right from the suite, automatically update documents with data from the Web, reuse text
• Graphics from any source, and quickly find answers and resources
• Windows 7 support--work with Microsoft's latest operating system
• Work with 60+ file types, including ODF and Microsoft Office files, including the latest OOXML formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0039Y59F0
• Item model number: WPX5ENHSMB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 23, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (227 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #819 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #21 in Software > Business & Office > Word Processing

Product Description

Amazon.com

For great-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations, get Corel WordPerfect Office X5--Home & Student Edition, the essential office suite for home PC users and students. It's the easy and affordable way to create all kinds of documents, manage your money and design multimedia slideshows. Enhanced compatibility lets you run on Windows 7 and easily open, edit and save the latest Microsoft Office formats. Start and complete projects quickly with the new document creator and redesigned help system. Save time and money with built-in collaborative tools for PDF. Find out why millions trust the best office suite value, WordPerfect Office.

The easy and affordable way to create all kinds of documents, manage your money and design multimedia slideshows.

Compatible with Microsoft Office files and more Open, edit and save Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files, including the latest OOXML (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) versions Work with 60+ file types, including ODF, allowing you to open almost any file type Do More with PDFs Publish PDFs from any application Archive PDFs to easily access and reuse content Password-protect PDFs to keep documents safe Work your way with a suite that adapts to you Create great-looking documents in an instant with one of the many free professionally designed templates Control how your workspace looks: customize menus, shortcuts and toolbars, or switch to Microsoft Office Mode Easily write and format your documents using classic features like Make It Fit, context-sensitive toolbars and RealTime Preview Quickly find answers and resources with the newly redesigned Help system

What's Included

WordPerfect Office X5--Home & Student Edition blends the latest leading-edge office software with classic WordPerfect features. Easy to learn and use, it's the ideal office productivity suite for home and student users.

	WordPerfect X5--Word Processing Do more with documents Easily create professional-looking documents, letters, labels, fax cover sheets, brochures, reports, resumes and more Enjoy hassle-free formatting with the unique Reveal Codes feature Open, edit and save Microsoft Word files, including the latest OOXML (.docx) files
	Quattro Pro X5--Spreadsheets Easily manage your numbers Create budgets, invoices, receipts and expense reports Organize, analyze and share data for better decision making Open, edit and save Microsoft Excel files, including the latest OOXML (.xlsx) files
	Presentations X5--Slideshows and Presentations Strengthen your visual impact Create compelling slideshows, proposals, demonstrations and interactive reports Easily edit pictures, create charts and diagrams, and share content with others Open, edit and save Microsoft PowerPoint files, including the latest OOXML (.pptx) files
	Corel WordPerfect Lightning--Digital Notebook Collect information, images and ideas Turn your office software into a central hub for research and collaboration Take notes and gather information from the Web, email, documents and other sources

More office software and resources:

• 900+ TrueType fonts, 8,000+ clipart images, 200+ templates, 175+ digital photos
• The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
• WordPerfect Address Book and contact manager
• WordPerfect OfficeReady template browser
• Batch Conversion Utility to convert Microsoft Word documents to WordPerfect documents
• Plus! Free video training from Brainstorm!

WordPerfect Office X5 Edition Comparison Matrix

	Professional	Standard	Home & Student
Create word processing documents, like letters, reports, marketing collateral, etc.	●	●	●
Build spreadsheets for financial planning, budgets and other financial documents	●	●	●
Create multimedia slideshows & presentations	●	●	●
Access context-sensitive toolbars in productivity programs that change automatically depending on task	●	●	●
Use RealTime Preview to see document formatting changes before applying them	●	●	●
Organize your information with the Digital Notebook	●	●	●
Exchange files thanks to compatibility with applicable Microsoft Office documents, including OOXML	●	●	●
Easily see and adjust document formatting with Reveal Codes	●	●	●
Open scanned PDFs to edit and reuse the content	●	●
Open text-based PDFs to edit and reuse the content	●	●
Easily collaborate on documents using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server	●	●
Annotate PDFs, scan to various formats with Nuance PaperPort SE 12	●	●
Create documents based on information pulled from the web with Web Services	●	●
Mozilla Thunderbird integrated e-mail client, calendar and powerful search tools	●	●
Leverage business tools and applications	●	●
Licensed for business use	●	●
Extend WordPerfect to fit your workflow with the Software Developers Kit	●
Gather and provide rich reporting and analysis of data with a powerful database	●
Easily create databases with pre-built samples and templates	●
Includes development and custom integration tools to simplify installation and configuration	●

Product Description

Corel WordPerfect Office X5 Home & Student Edition is the essential office suite for home PC users and students. It's the easy and affordable way to create all kinds of documents, manage your finances and design multimedia slideshows. Plus, enhanced compatibility lets you open, edit and save Microsoft Office files and run on Windows 7.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 85 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An office-suite that's hard to beat. WordPerfect X5 for Home & Student: A Critical Review. July 7, 2010

By Andre Lawrence TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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Length: 1:30 Mins

Recently, I was discussing the merits of softwares that we use whether Windows, Mac or both. The discussion then turned to a company that I've had a surprising change of heart about, namely, Corel.

Corel, as many of us know, has made a dramatic turn around recently and, like WinZip 14.5, their office suite "WordPerfect X5 for Home & Student" is another dynamic software that, in my opinion, is not one that anyone should overlook. It is a legitimate alternative to Microsoft Office and the "free" alternatives I spoke about when reviewing MS Office 2008.

* Features
** Comparing WordPerfect X5 to MS Office and OpenOffice
***Cost
*** Conclusion

* Corel's WordPerfect X5 office suite for home and students is a tremendous value that is even suitable for most "big" businesses that don't need the accouterments of the professional version. Included are the four basic class of office software:

WORDPERFECT (for word processing, letterheads, brochures, etc.)
QUATTRO (for spreadsheets, home/ business budgets/ personal data entry)
PRESENTATIONS (for slideshows and displays)
LIGHTNING (for digital note taking, misc cut/ paste features, screen-capture)

Plus...
900 True Type Fonts
8000 clip art images
200 templates
175 digital photos
The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
Address book and contact manager
"WordPerfect Office Ready" browser
Presentation graphics (a drawing application)
Plus training videos on the 3rd cd.

Before I get to comparing similar suites, there's also something that should be noted that is not listed in the brochure but is remarkable about this package.

1.... You can not only open Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, but you can MAKE a MS Office Word file, a MS Office Excel file, a MS Office Powerpoint file. You have the choice to create, or open or save a file from Corel's suite, (ie WordPerfect, Quattro, Presentation or Lightning) or MS's suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), but you have the option of saving any of those file types in any of 80 different formats including:

AmiPro
Lotus 1-2-3
Word for Windows 1.0 through MS Office 2007 (including 2003)
OfficeWriter
RTF
WordStar
XYWriter

2. Price. This Office suite is more comparable to MS Office Business edition than it is to its "Home and Student" edition. And, we're talking about 1/3 of the price. (We'll get to specifics in a moment)

** Comparisons.
WORDPERFECT X5 (H/S ed.)
WordPerfect
Quattro Pro
Presentations
Lightning
Presentation Graphics
Address Book/ Contact Mgr.
Template Browser
Pocket Oxford Dictionary
8000 clip art images
900 fonts
175 digital photos
200 templates
save to 80 different formats
90-day phone support
Email support

MS OFFICE 2010 (H/S ed.)
Word
Excel
Powerpoint
One Note
90-day phone support
Email support

OPENOFFICE 3.2.1 (standard)
Write
Calc
Presentation
Draw
Formula
Database
Email support

***
WordPerfect X5 H/S $85

MS Office 2010 H/S $125- $150 (w/ Outlook- $217.18)
(w/ Publisher, Acces, 1-yr support- $460)

OpenOffice 3.2 Free

**** There isn't another full-service office suite that offers more than Corel's WordPerfect X5 for Home/ Student. If there's a downside it may be that it is Windows-based only. Unless, of course, you have a virtual software like VMWare Fusion. Considering all that's offered here, with much more tools for the buck,

Corel's WordPerfect X5 for Home or Student is far superior to MS Office 2010 for Home Student. 5 very big stars. Read more ›

96 of 103 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Compatability at last with Microsoft, yet flexibility beyond it June 19, 2010

By John L Murphy TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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As a longtime PC user of WP, it's been frustrating to keep it at home; my work uses Microsoft. My PC had only WP installed, while my work ones have only Microsoft. This new version allows compatibility, a feature my old WP lacked. It also integrates Sharepoint and Thunderbird e-mail functions that Microsoft favors; it works with Microsoft Word 2007 also to convert files. (I am not sure how it works with Vista, as I do not have that program, but it does get along with Windows 7 and XP-- but I suspect not lower-level Microsoft versions if these still lurk on your PC.) It can be used on up to three PCs; I assume it can be deactivated from one and put on another if necessary?

The WP update does not look much different than Microsoft Word. A glance at it running looks about the same as its competitor. Yet, I have always favored my older WP for its simpler "feel," and its lack of forcing you into limits that a Microsoft word processor or program seems to do for me. I rely on a computer more for basic functions, so some of those in either WP or Microsoft might elude my awareness. Still, I like wide varieties of fonts (900 True Type, many non-Western), clip art, and the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (on a separate disk here).

The tutorial disk shows you the basics; PDF features for creating compatibly viewed files promise wide application, as does Quatro spreadsheet and editing of presentation slides (Power Point compatible, but somehow these files seem to offer wider variety than PP for options). Similarly, the Lightning feature, although not one I'd personally need, may be welcome for those wanting to work across programs that are Microsoft-based while extending the flexibility that WP provides. A

I welcome competition for Microsoft.... I always feel forced into it at work and favor the choices in the marketplace. So, I am happy I can now fit my home documents into my work ones at last. Familiarity should show some more discoveries, and I may enter these into an updated review. Based on a first encounter with the new version of WP, as before I tend to find WP less restrictive and more welcoming than its ubiquitous rival. Read more ›

87 of 94 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Expensive To Not Be Able to Preserve Formatting Across Conversions July 9, 2010

By L. Gildart TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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WordPerfect was my favorite software package way back in the DOS days of the late 80's. I used it to run a small law office, before I went to law school myself, and when I got out of school, it was the word processor of choice for the legal publisher that gave me my first job as a legal writer. Formatting documents was much easier for me in WordPerfect than it was in MS Word (except on a mac, which was easiest of all), and I loved the ability to save without all the meta data that explains everything everyone has ever done to a document.

This version of WordPerfect Office recalls all of those good experiences, and, yet, on balance I cannot give it a favorable review for two insurmountable reasons.

The first is that WordPerfect does not perfectly preserve formatting across conversions to and from the MS Office products. While this does not make it unusable, it certainly makes it a lot of work for me to revise documents - especially legal documents with very specific formatting requirements - that have to be generated, saved, and printed in MS Word at work. The WordPerfect suite is no better at preserving formatting than OpenOffice, which is free.

Which brings me to my second problem: price. The WordPerfect Office Home and Student Edition is nearly as expensive as the student version of the Microsoft product, which does preserve all formatting and makes it seamless to work at home on documents created at work. I cannot see formatting, reformatting, and then reformatting again just to save a small amount of money.

Finally, I haven't found a way to have the as-you-go spellcheck and grammar check run at the same time. It's one or the other. That's not a deal-breaker, but it's not super awesome, either....

If I did not have to have MS compatibility, I would like this suite better. The interface is a bit cluttered, BUT it keeps all the tools right where you can see them, which is incredibly helpful when learning new software. The tools are consistent across the suite, and all documents and presentations were professional-looking.

It's a big program, weighing in at nearly 1 gb, and I expected more clip art at that size (silly, I know), but it ran pretty snappily, even on an XP-running old pentium 4 (with hyperthreading and 1 gb of ram). Read more ›