WordPerfect Office X4 Home & Student

by Corel

Product Features

• Includes WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, Presentations X4, WordPerfect Lightning, Visual Intelligence, Stamps.com, Firefox, The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
• Create great-looking documents, school reports, resumes, spreadsheets and presentations, plus organize notes and information
• Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents; save money and share information using built-in PDF tools
• Take notes and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with the new WordPerfect Lightning digital notebook
• Get new data analysis software to analyze academic data, plus turn complex spreadsheets into easy-to- interpret charts

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.9 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0017I3DOY
• Item model number: WPX4ENPCHS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 16, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #232 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

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Product Description

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Corel WordPerfect Office X4--Home & Student Edition is the essential office suite for home and school to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations, and organize notes and information. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Save money and share information with others using the built-in PDF tools. Take notes, and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. Plus, you get new data analysis software and integrated online services.

Easily open, edit and create Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files.

Tailor your work environment by customizing menus, shortcut keys and toolbars to your preferences.

Using Reveal Codes, you can quickly view and change formatting at any point in the document.

Identify the trends in your data and filter results to zero-in on important information with Visual Intelligence SE.

Corel WordPerfect Office X4--Home & Student Edition includes:

• WordPerfect X4
  Better documents. Faster.
  
  
• Quattro Pro X4
  Spreadsheets that enlighten.
  
  
• Presentations X4
  Attention-grabbing slideshows.
  
  
• Corel Visual Intelligence SE*
  Data analysis software.
  
  
• Corel WordPerfect Lightning
  Web connected digital notebook.
  
  
• WordPerfect MAIL
  Change your outlook on email.
  
  

Also included:

• 75+ WordPerfect OfficeReady templates and browser
• The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary electronic dictionary
• Presentations Graphics X4 drawing application
• 175 digital photos
• 8,000 clipart images
• 900 TrueType fonts
• WordPerfect XML Project Designer to create XML projects
• Conversion Utility to batch convert Microsoft Word files to WordPerfect
• WordPerfect Address Book to manage contacts

Compatible

Work with Microsoft Office users
Easily open, edit and create Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files.*

File Compatibility
Open new and old files with broad support for over 60 file formats, including current open standards such as OOXML and ODF. In fact, open older Microsoft files that even Microsoft Office 2007 can't open.

Choose Your Work Environment
Are you new to WordPerfect Office? Use the Workspace Manager to automatically adopt the familiar keystrokes and menus of Microsoft Office.

Open Document Format (ODF)
Open and edit ODF word-processing files, the ISO-standard for storing and archiving documents.

Windows Vista and Windows XP Support
Work with the latest Microsoft operating systems.

*Corel WordPerfect Office X4 will open the vast majority of files created in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Due to differences in the applications, on occasion a file may not open and,in some cases, formatting may not be identical.

Easy to Learn and Use

Being productive has never been easier
It's never been easier to get up and running with WordPerfect Office! New version includes "Getting Started with WordPerfect Office X4," a FREE training CD from lynda.com.

Customizable Workspace
Tailor your work environment by customizing menus, shortcut keys and toolbars to your preferences. Or switch to "Microsoft Office Mode" with a few easy clicks.

PerfectExpert
Get started quickly with the PerfectExpert, a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice. When you start a PerfectExpert project, the panel dynamically updates to provide guidance specific to the task at hand.

Reveal Codes
Reduce the time it takes to format documents, especially long, multi-page documents. By using Reveal Codes, you can quickly view and change formatting at any point in the document.

Make It Fit
Sometimes you have just a little too much to say in the space provided. This longtime favorite feature lets you select a block of text and instantly resize it to fit a specified number of pages.

Get started quickly with the PerfectExpert, a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice.

Turn your documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with anyone.

Take notes and gather information from multiple sources, including the Web, email and other documents with WordPerfect Lightning.

Feature Rich

More Built-in PDF Capabilities

Adobe Acrobat not required
Turn your documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with anyone--without having to download or buy additional software.

PDF Import
Access and reuse PDF content directly in WordPerfect X4 Standard or Pro edition. Simply import the PDF, work with the text and graphics, then save the file to a wide variety of formats*.

New--Import Image-Based PDFs
With WordPerfect Office X4 Standard and Pro editions, you can easily reuse text by converting PDF files--even scanned, image-based PDFs--into editable text.

New--Password Protection
Control who can view, copy, edit or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition.

New--Tagged PDF Support
Ensure that the PDFs you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition can be read by devices for the visually impaired, meeting government accessibility standards.

New--Support for PDF/A
Easily archive files to meet ISO standards. PDF/A, the de facto archiving format, is a subset of PDF that excludes features that are not suited to long-term archiving, such as external document linking.

PDF File Size Options
The PDFs you create in WordPerfect Office X4 Standard, Pro or Home & Student edition can be output to a variety of media, including the Web, email or print. Tailor file size and printing resolution options to best suit the platform on which your work will be viewed.

New Online Services

New--WordPerfect Lightning--Web-connected digital notebook

• Take notes and gather information from multiple sources, including the Web, email and other documents
• Open and view PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft Word files with the Viewer component
• Organize your ideas and documents with the familiar folder structure of the Navigator component
• Get a FREE 200 MB online storage account plus other online services

Connect online
Communicate with free online tools directly from WordPerfect Office X4

Corel Visual Intelligence SE --Let the numbers tell your story.
Data analysis software

• Turn complex spreadsheets and databases into easy-to-interpret charts and graphs
• Identify the trends in your data and filter results to zero-in on important information

*Corel WordPerfect Office X4's PDF editing features enable users to open, edit and reuse the content of most PDFs.

Corel Visual Intelligence SE includes a free 30 day preview of Visual Intelligence Professional features.

Affordable

It's affordable
Priced at much less than Microsoft Office and with accommodating licensing programs, WordPerfect Office X4 continues to offer great functionality at a value price.

Free training
Get a free 2-hour training CD from Lynda.com to help get you started with WordPerfect Office X4.

Save money with built-in PDF tools
Why pay extra for additional PDF software when WordPerfect Office has PDF features built right in?

Save time with professionally designed templates
With WordPerfect Office X4 you get over 75 free WordPerfect OfficeReady templates for word processing, spreadsheet and slideshow projects, plus a template browser.

And more free extras...

• The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary electronic dictionary
• Presentations Graphics X4 drawing application
• 175 digital photos
• 8,000 clipart images
• 900 TrueType fonts
• WordPerfect XML Project Designer to create XML projects
• Conversion Utility to batch convert Microsoft Word files to WordPerfect
• WordPerfect Address Book to manage contacts

Product Description

Corel WordPerfect Office X4 ¿ Home & Student Edition is the essential office suite for home and school to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize notes and information. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Work with over 60 file formats, including ODF. Save money and share information with others with the built-in PDF tools. Take notes, and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. Easily interpret complex spreadsheets with a new data analysis program. And put it all together with online services, including email and shared calendaring, to help you work with others and stay connected.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

194 of 196 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not as advertised, July 19, 2008

By	an educator (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WordPerfect Office X4 Home & Student (CD-ROM)

word perfect is an excellent word processor that many including myself consider superior, more powerful and easy to use than Word. However the "Home and Student" version is sold without any notice that it does not include all the features that are advertised. True there is a Acrobat file hidden at the WP website that compares the versions but if you don't happen to see that you will find that you have bought a program that will NOT open .pdf files, will not save .pdf files, does not save in the latest Word format. There are probably other "missing" features as well. It doesn't say that anywhere on the box and in fact as you install the program you are told about all the features the new program has- which IN FACT it does not have! For those who purchase the program with the new features in mind you can call the company about it and they will tell you to get lost. This is unworthy of the reputation Word perfect has for those like me who have used the program since its earliest DOS incarnations.

73 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The better WordProcessor for long documents., September 4, 2008

By	Jason P. Gold (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: WordPerfect Office X4 Home & Student (CD-ROM)

It is hard to believe it is two years since Corel released X3. When I found out that the new X4 version had been released, I downloaded the one month demo from Corel.

I don't have much use for anything in the suite except WordPerfect. I've been using WordPerfect since before Windows, when it had a blue screen, displayed ASCII characters in Courier font (there were no fonts except Courier), and laser printers cost a small fortune. I work for a number of attorneys -- WordPerfect is the software of choice for word processing in most offices I've worked in because, in my opinion, it is the better product for the job. It may also be because WordPerfect has been around for so long that everyone just migrated without changing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Universal File Support -- Limited PDF support in Home/Student Edition

WordPerfect has very good compatibility with other file formats making it nearly universal. The more expensive version of WordPerfect handles PDF files and will import text and graphic based PDF files and will perform optical character recognition on the PDF file. As the comment below shows, Corel indicates this version does not open PDF files, although it will publish to PDF. Please see http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/wpx4/edition-comparison-chart.pdf for a comparison of the different versions.

Although it is not perfect, WordPerfect converts to and from numerous Word formats including RTF, and all versions through 7. It also supports other formats including WordStar, AMI, OfficeWriter, Lotus, Multimate and numerous others.

Skins

Corel also added two themes so that the skin looks more like XP/Vista, and for those who need it, the Word Count feature is on the application bar at the bottom of the WordPerfect window. This new version appears to be very stable.

Exceptional Word Processing Capabilities

When WordPerfect came out, it took over the market. (It was far superior to the software then available, and remains one of the best.) When MicroSoft came out with Word, I had the feeling they did everything they could to make it different from WordPerfect just to use their power in the industry to take over the word processing market, just like MicroSoft did with every other good software idea to come along. (e.g., Mozilla/Netscape, Norton Utilities.)

I have three versions of Word (2000, 2003 and 2007) and WordPerfect 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, X3 and now X4. I use the MicroSoft product only when absolutely necessary -- usually because someone else sends me a document in that format. The new version of Word is extremely powerful. It is just that like most M/S software, it does too much and takes the control away from the user. It is also unfamiliar to me because the traditional pull down menus have been placed sideways on toolbars and rearranged so it is uncomfortable to use. Accordingly, I prefer to use WordPerfect and save the output as a Word document using the "SAVE AS" feature on the "file" pull down menu.

The reason I like WordPerfect so much is that it types more like a typewriter. You can set up and use styles if you want, but you can also just hit the tab button to indent the first line of a paragraph. If you want to change the margins for the entire document, you simply change the margins. The rest of the document follows the change. You don't have to change each paragraph. If you want to change one paragraph, you can do it with a single keystroke (the WordPerfect 6 keystrokes are F4 for left indent or Shift-F4 for double indent).

In addition, you can get to the formatting codes. Hit Alt-F3 and the screen splits in half and displays all of the format codes -- bold, underline, tabs, indent codes, line spacing, column on and off, etc. Then you know exactly what you have done and fix and format it easily. This ability has proven useful on several occasions when clients, who insist on using Word for legal documents, cannot cajole Word to put their unruly documents into the format they want. (This is particularly true when using OCR with scanned or faxed documents.) By opening the Word document in WordPerfect, I have been able to use "Alt-F3" to identify the errant codes and quickly repair them. WordPerfect can then save the document in Word/RTF format with the problems fixed. This is particularly useful when combined with the global search and replace. For example, you can search and replace all [paragraph style] codes and end up with a manageable document.

Working with columns is also easier. You turn on columns and tell it how many colums you want, set the width of each, and the space between them, and away you go. You have four types of columns to work with -- newspaper, balanced newspaper, parallel and parallel with block protect. I've tried the other software, and if you change text or printers, you can never get the columns to line up the way you want it. With Word, each column change or page change seems to introduce a whole new set of control codes, and a complete set of formatting, and you can never get it back the way you want it. I once tried to scan in a list of names and addresses which were in two or three columns into Word. Each name and address was placed in its own text box. I could never work with it.

Another very important feature is the ability to view a document from the "open document" screen without having to actually open up the document. This way, if you are searching for a specific document or a document containing certain specific information or "language" you need, you don't have to serially open a document, close it, open another document, and so on until you find the one you want. This is particularly powerful when combined with the "find document" feature on the "open document" screen. Using the find button opens a screen which is similar to the windows "search" screen. You can type in a series of words, and WordPerfect will search all files on the hard drive or in the folder/subfolders in which you are working for all documents containing your target search terms. You can then scroll through and look at each document to quickly determine their contents. From the "find" screen, you can access the "quickfinder" program which pre-scans folders on the computer so that searching for documents is nearly instantaneous. For example, once I needed to find a "Declaration re Ex Parte Notice" to use as a template from among thousands of documents. The entire search took perhaps half a minute.

The most prominent change between WP 10 and 12/X3/X4 is the workspace manager which allows you to switch between legal mode, original (classic) WordPerfect 5.1 mode (with the blue screen), legal mode, standard WordPerfect for Windows mode and Word mode. They have also included and upgraded the ability to publish to Adobe PDF, HTML, and RTF/Word formats.

This is full featured software, and does everything I need. It handles tables, tables of content, tables of authorities, column sorts -- everything I need in a law office. Graphics can be dropped in with a click of the mouse. I'm considered to be almost an expert, and there is a lot I don't know!

One of the great advantages of WordPerfect is that the files are much smaller than Word documents. This means you can transport them on floppy drives.

As a final thought, Word is very powerful and works very well for short documents such as business letters. If you do anything over several pages, you are much better off with WordPerfect.

Take time to get to know the software and you'll be glad you purchased it.

Other Programs:

The Corel Office package includes replacement programs for most of the stuff in Microsoft Office. The suite includes a Microsoft Outlook replacement (Mail), a PowerPoint replacement (Presentation), an exceptional spreadsheet program (Quattro) and Lightning. I haven't yet figured out what Lightning does except act as a notebook of some sort.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Version is not the one described on this product page - why?, September 23, 2008

By	L. J. Whiting "mom, student, teacher" (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: WordPerfect Office X4 Home & Student (CD-ROM)

I agree with the other reviewer who said this is not as advertised. I talked my husband into letting me spend the money based in large part on the fact that this product can open and create PDF files, as clearly stated in the product description.
Why have that text on the page for this product if it only applies to a completely different (and more expensive) version?
I am now stuck with a product that will not do what I thought it would when I made my buying decision.
I disappointed with Corel in particular, and even with Amazon a little. Open Office is free and supports Microsoft Office, Corel Wordperfect, AND PDF files. I guess I will just learn to use it.