Corel Family Pack 2009

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Product Features

• Includes WordPerfect X4 Family Pack Edition, Quattro Pro X4 Family Pack Edition, WordPerfect Lightning, Visual Intelligence, Ulead Video Studio 11SE, MediaOne, Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, Firefox, WordPerfect Address Book
• Packed with intuitive tools and learning resources to help you get started
• Create letters and reports; budget and plan your household finances
• Edit your pictures and make family movies
• Also includes a digital notebook, data analysis software and free access to online services

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 9.6 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0017I3DP8
• Item model number: CFP1ENPC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 16, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,203 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

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Corel Family Pack 2009 includes hundreds of dollars worth of software for creating documents and spreadsheets, making movies and editing photos. And every program is packed with intuitive tools and learning resources to help you get started. Create letters and reports, budget and plan your household finances, edit your pictures and make family movies. Plus, you get a digital notebook, data analysis software and free access to online services. Bring your big ideas to life--without spending a bundle.

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 Family Pack 2009 includes:

• WordPerfect X4 SE*
  Better documents. Faster.
  
  
• Quattro Pro X4 SE*
  Spreadsheets that enlighten.
  
  
• Ulead VideoStudio 11 SE*
  Easy video editing.
  
  
• Corel MediaOne
  Fast, fun and easy photo software.
  
  
• Corel Visual Intelligence SE*
  Data analysis software.
  
  
• Corel WordPerfect Lightning
  Web connected digital notebook.
  
  

*WordPerfect X4 SE, Quattro Pro X4 SE, VideoStudio 11 SE and Visual Intelligence SE are Starter Editions.

Video and Photo

VideoStudio 11 SE**--Easy video editing and DVD authoring.

• Easy-to-use video-editing tools for making great-looking videos, slide shows and DVDs
• Spice up your home movies with hundreds of customizable effects, filters and transitions
• Perfect for first-time users, the movie wizard helps you create a complete movie in only three steps

Three ways to make your own movies:

• DV-to-DVD Wizard--the fastest way from DV camcorder to DVD
• Movie Wizard--Perfect for first time users. Create a complete movie in three steps!
• VideoStudio Editor--Express your creativity with a full set of editing tools

Corel MediaOne--Fast, fun and easy photo software.

• Photo--Organize, improve and enhance your photos in an instant
• Create--Make scrapbooks, collages, calendars and more
• Protect--Keep your memories safe with automatic online backup

Free Extras

• Free postage from Stamps.com
• Get started quickly with a free 2-hour training CD from lynda.com
• Get connected with free online services and 200 MB of online storage

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.

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

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

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.

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
• 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 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 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...

• Free postage from Stamps.com
• Firefox Web browser
• 200 MB free online storage

Product Description

Corel Family Pack 2009 includes hundreds of dollars worth of software for creating documents and spreadsheets, making movies and editing photos. And every program is packed with intuitive tools and learning resources to help you get started. Create letters and reports, budget and plan your household finances, edit your pictures and make family movies. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office files. Take notes and gather information from the Web, emails and documents with the digital notebook. Plus, you get data analysis software and free access to online services. Bring your big ideas to life¿without spending a bundle.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I dont like Bad Suprises!, September 6, 2008

By	Miguel Bandito "Miguel Bandito" (Lewiston, Idaho) - See all my reviews

I put out a newsletter for our non profit club and publish a few obscure local history books.

As a 20 year wordperfect (WP) user who has purchased previous versions of Word Perfect, I am really disapointed by the simplest of things. After running a computer with Win98SE and Word Perfect 6 and then going to a newer OS Win2000 and getting a Family pack that included Word Perfect 11. Now I am running Vista 64 and I find my previous versions of Word perfect can not be upgraded to run with Vista.

Fine I ain't so cheap that I can not buy a few new software products for my new computer.... so I buy the latest Family Pack with Word Perfect X4, and by Corels own product description, I expected it to be at least as functonal as the old WP11. But Corel is killing me, just to force users to buy a premium X4 version, this one does not come with a PDF converter, which all my old WP versions have. I can not throw away my old computer because I have to load my WP X4 files onto WP11 which will not run on my new computer. WP11 changes the format of the file, the number of sentences per page, etc... which throws off the formatting and alignment of my pictures and articles. So I have to realign everything and convert it using WP11 to make my final PDF file. It is almost less bother to do everything on the old computer as any editing would then need to be done on the old computer also. Thanks Corel, my gift to you is this loving review. The new program runs faster on the new computer but since I farm out my publishing, editing, and product, I need the PDF capability. Corel has made the program worthless to me by one stupid, greedy, basic function omission.

In the past, it has not been important to me that my friends and associates, and publisher did not use WP as I could easily generate a PDF to share. In a world full of software users provided for mainly by Gates Inc, Corel should know that if they disable their users ability to share files with most of the world their product is basically useless.

I would appreciate if anyone knows of a way short of buying Adobe Acrobat or the Word Perfect upgrade that will convert these files to PDF without messing up the format.

I can not find any low cost PDF converter that both works with Word Perfect X4 and that does not put an advertising logo on each page. I would not be half so mad about this if Corel would at least have let a buyer know ahead of time that they had removed the PDF converter from their low end X4 version. The dark side is so strong and calling, I am about ready to throw in the towel and use the free MS Word that is already on the new computer.

I guess if you need a word processor, without the ability to share files this program will be "perfect" for you.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How to use pdf in the Family Pack, October 28, 2008

By	jerryb (cleveland) - See all my reviews

I agree that Wordperfect is great and can't be beat. To get a document in this variation of the program into a pdf file open your .wpd file in OpenOffice and export it as a .pdf file. OpenOffice is free and runs on all versions of Windows. No need to spend money on Microsoft Office.........

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holds its ground versus the competitionFirst, August 18, 2009

By	Merrifield Winters (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

of all, let me say that very often, purchasers of this product expect it to have all of the features of Word Excel, Access and so forth. This only creates trouble for the buyer as well as for the stores that stock the product. The Wordperfect Family Packs were never intended to compete directly with MS Office. For that, you would need to buy Office X4 Standard or Professional. Family Pack 2009 competes with Microsoft's similarly priced and featured "Works 9.0" suite. Having said that, Family pack costs twice as much as MS Works, but adds a few key features and leaves out others. Wordperfect Starter Edition is not as easy to work with as Works Word Processor, but it does add the feature of the "Reveal Codes" item. In addition, WP Starter Addition includes a document mapper that is almost essential in the writing of book-length. Works Spreadsheet is a delightful little program, but it does not compete at all well with Quattro.

In addition, the software comes with product demos and extras that really make the family pack what it is. All the same, the sometimes confusing keybindings and formatting make this a difficult program to learn even if he/she has had experience with other word processors

Overall, I would say that this rather counter-intuitive suite beats most of the products and features of Microsoft's products hands down. That is, if you learn to use it successfully. Highly recommended