Wordperfect Office X4 Standard

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Product Features

• Includes WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, Presentations X4, WordPerfect Lightning, Visual Intelligence, WordPerfect Mail, WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility, Pleading Expert, and PerfectScript
• The leading alternative to Microsoft Office--includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations & email
• World's first hybrid on and offline office suite; first PDF office suite, supporting an advanced PDF workflow
• First format-neutral office suite, supporting more than 60 file formats including ODF, OOXML and Microsoft Office 2007
• Also includes a new research and notebooking tool

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0017I8NQM
• Item model number: WPX4STDENPC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 16, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,820 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Corel WordPerfect Office X4--Standard Edition is the essential office suite for home and business users to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and manage e-mail. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Save hundreds with the built-in PDF tools. Take notes and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. Also includes data analysis software to get insight from your data and online services to help you stay connected.

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--Standard 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 Ñ 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

WordPerfect MAIL--Change your outlook on email
Full-featured email--send and receive email messages, keep track of appointments and tasks, manage your contacts, and rest easy knowing you're covered by top-class spam protection.

Rapid search
Lighting-fast searches of your Inbox, calendar, contacts and even attachments help find information in record time. Plus, get the latest news from your favorite Web sites with RSS feeds displayed right in your Inbox.

*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

WordPerfect Office X4 Standard Edition is the essential office suite for home and business users to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and manage e-mail. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. Work with over 60 file formats, including ODF and Microsoft Office 2007. Save hundreds 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 (like eMail and shared calendaring) to help you work with others and stay connected.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, stable product, lots of features, reasonable price, June 21, 2008

By	Modern Blue Argonaut "Exploring our world one... (In my spaceship) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I've been using WordPerfect Office X4 Standard for a month now, and I've been very pleased.

Background: I received a new laptop computer for Christmas and hadn't installed a feature rich suite like this, and was using Microsoft Works in the meantime. I've used Microsoft Office 2007 at home and at work, as well as tried Open Office at home. The last time I used a WordPerfect product was back in the mid-90's.

I was pleasantly surprised, but yet skeptical that WordPerfect could put out a product to compete with Microsoft Office. Not only do they compete, but they compete well.

One thing that sets this product apart from Microsoft Office is the ability to create, edit, and even password protect PDF files. The only exception to this would be if the PDF that you are attempting to open was already password protected. In that case, you would need a different product if you intended to edit it.

This suite also includes WordPerfect Lightning. I have to be honest, I didn't have a clue what this was when I installed it. It's like a lite version of Microsoft OneNote. I didn't know how powerful it would be until I started putting it to use. Lightning is a digital notebook that runs swiftly and easily on your desktop (when it's opened). You can screen capture any portion of your screen at any time and save it to a neat, organized folder for later use. For example, if I wanted to copy a paragraph or an image from a web site I just click "snapshot" and then clip out the part I want and it immediately stores to a folder. I can then easily organize the folder of snapshots, type up notes, and then send the entire folder over to Word or WordPerfect and it instantly creates a document in those programs. This is nice for putting together random thoughts, reports, and organizing research. Students will love this when researching on the Internet for school. The only downside is that I could not figure out how to capture the url easily. I suspect it does capture the url for reference, but I didn't figure that out.

Next, the spreadsheet program, Quattro Pro, can run in Microsoft Excel mode which is great if you are comfortable working in Excel and know the menu layout and shortcuts. It also runs in Quattro Pro mode, or Lotus 1-2-3 mode. You can also publish your spreadsheet as a PDF right from the file menu. This a fully featured spreadsheet program that does not lack anything.

WordPerfect X4 also runs in four different modes, so you can work in the environment you are accustomed to. Those modes are WordPerfect X4, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect Classic 3.1, and WordPerfect Legal mode. This program is actually more compatible with older Microsoft files than the newest version of Microsoft Office. In fact, this can open more than 60 file types, even new ones like OOXML and ODF. If you are trying to learn a richly featured word processor like this one for the first time Corel makes it easy with several types of support. First, there are two hours of DVD instruction to get you started. Next, there is a hand-holding program called Perfect Expert that basically guides you throughout the entire document creation process. In addition, there is CorelTutor, which is a standard index/search for specific help items. For example, you can quickly and easily look up how to create footnotes by just clicking on CorelTutor, typing footnote into the search box, and then step by step instructions are displayed. Anything created in this program can also be saved as a PDF file. As for PDF handling, since it's converting it, the format will not be 100%. You may still need to go in and fix the document up, but regardless, you are now editing a PDF document without spending $279 on Adobe Acrobat Standard 9. In my opinion, this is a HUGE benefit to this software.

I did not try Presentations X4, but if you are familiar with PowerPoint, this is the Corel version. My son makes a lot of PowerPoint projects throughout the year at school, so this should come in handy. It says that you can publish your slideshow to HTML or Adobe Flash.

WordPerfect Mail is also included in this suite. I found it difficult to set up the outgoing mail server, but my incoming mail server worked. I emailed customer service to ask about specific settings to find out why my outgoing mail server is not working. I'm sure it's user error. The program is set up to automatically convert your existing Outlook or Outlook Express account, but does not have automated account set up for Gmail or Windows Mail. I hope to see this in an update in the future. We just have to set up the account the old fashioned way until then by putting in your outgoing and incoming mail servers, ports, passwords, and authentication/ssl settings.

Finally, this suite includes (free) a 200 Mb online storage account with a mailbox. You can receive/send mail, store pictures, documents, and mail, as well as share documents with one other user. Accounts needing more than 200 Mb of storage or more than 2 collaborating users will find the service gets pricey. The online storage account is especially useful for sharing lightning files.

Two final thoughts, since this handles more file types than MS Office and includes PDF publishing and editing, I would say to give this program some serious consideration. In one months time I have not had the program crash on me even once. It's very, very stable, and very rich in features, support, and training.

The final thought is to recommend that you install everything the first time. I left out Lightning and Mail during my first installation (thinking I wouldn't use/need them) but I became so impressed with the other programs that I went back and tried to install Mail and Lightning. For some reason on my Windows Vista computer it wiped out the rest of the programs and only left me with Mail and Lightning. Perhaps I did it wrong. It's easier to remove a program than to try to reinstall/install separate portions later.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I missed this wordprocessor, June 17, 2008

By	Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

WordPerfect was my gold standard, way before Microsoft Word, which I ended up using because it was the standard at work.

This word processor does not hang up my computer like Word does, and it will process PDF files, which is pretty awesome. All in all, I prefer it to Word, and since you can go between formats, no need to use Word if you don't want to.

There are some intriguing online services that come with WordPerfect:

WordPerfect Lightning - Web-connected digital notebook
where you can compile information from the Web, email and other documents

Open and view PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft® Word files (viewer)

200 MB online storage account is included.

Supports older file formats, including out-of-date Word that Word won't support (cool if you have some very antique files.) You can configure the program to emulate Word keystrokes you are familiar with.

All in all, affordably priced and full of great features. Big thumbs up.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars X4 Widens the Office Suite Gap, May 26, 2008

By	Martin P. McCarthy (North Chili, New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Many marvel at the longevity of WordPerfect but the truth is, it was always ahead of its time. Having begun my word processing life with the classic "blue screen" of WordPerfect 5.1, it quickly outpaced the competition.

When Microsoft Word came on the scene however, WordPerfect began to suffer. It was true that Word 97 was actually easier to use than its WordPerfect counterpart. Many concluded that WordPerfect was on its way out.

So how did it manage to hang on? Lawyers. While it may seem that the entire world was using Microsoft Word, the vast majority of law firms used WordPerfect - all the legal secretaries were trained using WordPerfect and the legal profession is allergic to change.

WordPerfect began to cater to the legal user - with the feature which automatically generates a table of contents, table of cases and table of authorities. WordPerfect was also there when the United States District Courts began mandating electronic filing in pdf format. It was WordPerfect (and not Word) which first implemented the feature which allowed the user to publish documents to pdf format (without the need of a scanner or Adobe Acrobat).

Still, there was resistance to WordPerfect because, for many, Word was easier to use. WordPerfect X3 changed all that. X3 went so far as to allow the user to configure X3 to behave EXACTLY like Word.

Which brings us to X4. While the folks at Microsoft have taken the regrettable step in Office 2007 to switch to the .docx document format, WordPerfect X4 still fosters interoperability - again behaving like Word and even converting .docx documents.

Why is .docx so regrettable? Most people do not pay much attention to how they save a document. In Office 2007, Microsoft has now changed its standard from .doc to docx. The positive (I guess) is that a .docx file takes up less space on the hard drive. The negative (the big negative) is that .docx is not backwards compatible - meaning, someone using Office 2003 cannot open a .docx file - only users to Office 2007 or other consciously interoperable programs (Like WordPerfect X4).

And unlike the obtuse approach Microsoft has taken to .docx a WordPerfect document created in X4 can be opened in X4, in X3, and in WordPerfect versions dating all the way back to WordPerfect 6.

One of the most incredible features X4 adds is built-in advanced pdf capabilities. Now, you can actually open pdf documents right in WordPerfect. In addition, it has OCR feature which will actually convert to text pdf documents which were scanned. Again, for the legal community, this is an invaluable tool.

Why should X4 cross over intothe mainstream? Frankly, because it is better than Word. It is easier to use. It is exceedingly interoperable. In short, it does everything Microsoft Office does - only better.