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xsBusiness - Wordperfect Office X4 Standard Upgrade
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List Price: $159.99
Our Price: $125.49
Your Save: $ 34.50 ( 22% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Corel
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163119626
Feature: Includes WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, Presentations X4, WordPerfect Lightning, Visual Intelligence, WordPerfect Mail, WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility, Pleading Expert, and PerfectScript
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: WPX4STDENPCUG
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Studio: Corel
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Features
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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
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: WP OFFICE X4 it is!
Comment: I've not had time to "explore" too much, but I'm finding that it's all I've wanted and more. They've kept the same interface, but have strengthened WPs capabilities.
Sometimes when I open a .PDF file, the formatting is a little messed up, that's a small detail, though, to me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good pdf integration
Comment: As a long-time WordPerfect user, I am especially pleased with the pdf integration. It works smoothly and from my experience flawlessly. WordPerfect gives the user the control over the formatting I want and allows one to make changes without unexpected consequences.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Word Perfect is best
Comment: I have MS Word, Open Office Writer and Word Perfect. I use them all because: 1. I would like my employer to permit most of its employees to switch to Open Office. 2. I find it is best to open some documents with Word. 3. I prefer Word Perfect.
Word Perfect does so many things so well. I don't have to menu down to the function I want. I can hot key there.
Essentially, I believe it is a better product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Better Wordprocessor
Comment: 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 highly recommend the product.
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
WordPerfect has very good compatibility with other file formats making it nearly universal. It includes PDF file support which Corel continues to improve in this version. It saves directly to PDF format Corel has now added optical character recognition so you can import PDF files directly into a text document. Although it is not perfect, it 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. Please see http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/wpx4/edition-comparison-chart.pdf for a comparison of the different versions.
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 unfamiliar - the traditional pull down menus have been placed sideways on toolbars and rearranged so it is uncomfortable to use. If possible, I will use WordPerfect and save it 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.
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] 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. Just tonight 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WordPerfect X4
Comment: WordPerfect has always given the user much better control over the formatting of documents, through its "Reveal Codes" function than does Microsoft Word. It can also import documents from Word 2007 and now-forgotten word-processing programs such as WordStar, Ami Pro, and XyWrite III.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Create eye-catching documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with WordPerfect Office X4. All the tools you need are here. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents and 59 other formats, such as Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML). Save hundreds with the built-in PDF tools: Import, edit, archive and export PDF documents; Adobe Acrobat is not required. Control who can view, copy, edit or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create. Take notes and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a new digital notebook. It also includes data analysis software to get insight from your data and online services to help you stay connected.
Data analysis & visualization tools Digital notebook to organize your information Compatibility with applicable Microsoft Office documents Open scanned or text-based PDFs to edit & reuse the content Turn documents, spreadsheets & presentations into PDFs to share with the world Leverage business tools and applications Licensed for business use WordPerfect MAIL application for communication, lightning fast searching & RSS feed usage Presentations Graphics X4 graphics manipulation program Volume license pricing available Take notes & capture information and images from the Web, emails & other documents Share information with others & exchange ideas online and off 200 MB free online storage 2-hour training CD included Upgrade from - Corel WordPerfect Office 10 or higher; Microsoft Office 97 or higher; Microsoft Works Suite 2000 or higher
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