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Edition: Student and Teacher
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MPN: WPX3ENGPCSTE
Model: WPX3ENGPCSTE
UPC: 735163106657
EAN: 0735163106657
ASIN: B000DN7M7I
Release Date: January 17, 2006
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| • | WordPerfect X3, Quattro Pro X3, Presentations X3 and the relational database Paradox | | • | Install Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Student & Teacher Edition on up to three computers in your home at no additional cost! |
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WordPerfect Office X3 is everything you'd expect from an office suite -- and more -- for less. Enhanced compatibility ensures that you can work with people who use Microsoft Office or other office suites. Each application in the suite has been updated with stylish new buttons and toolbars to provide more familiar and easy-to-use environments. Plus, groundbreaking new features and enhancements, such as PDF-import capability, make this the most enticing and innovative WordPerfect Office yet. See which version of X3 is right for you See the product tour 
Work in a familiar, comfortable environment by customizing WordPerfect Office to resemble the software you're used to -- even Microsoft Office. See it in action. | 
Search the Web and access online tutorials and resources right from inside WordPerfect X3. See it in action. | 
Use the built-in PDF capabilities of WordPerfect Office X3 to share your work easily with everyone. See it in action. | 
Quattro Pro X3 provides great compatibility with Microsoft Excel. See it in action. | Great Compatibility
WordPerfect Office continues to break down compatibility barriers for its users. These days, who has time to figure out which product works with which file format? You want to simply and easily open, edit, save, and send documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows. To that end, WordPerfect Office X3 provides improved support for Microsoft Office file formats. In addition, the suite's built-in PDF publishing capabilities have been enhanced, making it easier than ever to exchange information. Incredible Ease of Use
WordPerfect Office X3 provides exciting new features that are designed to reduce the need for software expertise. The user interface for each application has been refreshed, providing more intuitive, familiar environments. Context-sensitive toolbars make it easy to identify tools and features. You can copy HTML and paste clean, unformatted text. The unmatched Corel RealTime Preview lets you see how potential formatting changes will affect your work before you commit to them. To help new users find their footing, the Workspace Manager can simulate the keystrokes and menu items of other office suites, such as Microsoft Office. The unobtrusive PerfectExpert is a handy guide and consultant for virtually any project. Plus, two free hours of training videos by lynda.com are included on CD. Student and Teacher Edition Applications
An A+ alternative to higher-priced products, WordPerfect Office X3 Student and Teacher Edition is perfect for students and educators alike. Licensed for noncommercial use, it includes WordPerfect X3 for word processing, Quattro Pro X3 for spreadsheets, Presentations X3 for multimedia slide shows, Paradox for relational databases, and Presentations Graphics X3 for bitmap graphics creation. Plus, the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary and the WordPerfect OfficeReady template browser are included. In addition, the Student and Teacher Edition is licensed for use on up to three PCs per single household. On top of all that, WordPerfect Office X3 includes 9,500 clipart images, 175 photos, and 900 TrueType fonts. WordPerfect X3: WordPerfect X3 provides exceptional ease of use and complete formatting control for producing newsletters, articles, reports, proposals, books, and other documents. The popular Reveal Codes, Corel RealTime Preview, and Legal features help reduce the amount of time you spend on document formatting, freeing you to focus on creating content. WordPerfect X3 also provides enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Word, the new ability to import PDFs, and robust PDF publishing capabilities, ensuring that you can freely exchange information with colleagues and clients, regardless of the software they use. Quattro Pro X3: Quattro Pro X3 is a powerful spreadsheet application that helps you organize, analyze, report, manage, and share important data and financial information. Improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel ensures that you can smoothly exchange information with Excel users. Quattro Pro X3 also includes outstanding tools for creating tables, financial forms, lists, databases, charts, reports, or any other type of data-oriented document. In addition, you can easily present your spreadsheet data in charts, and you can apply advanced rendering to your charts to give the information a professional, polished look. Presentations X3: Presentations X3 includes all the tools you need to produce slide shows, project proposals, interactive reports and demonstrations, multimedia presentations, flyers, signs, banners, and more. Presentations X3 provides enhanced compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint and enhanced PDF publishing capabilities. In addition, Show On The Go lets any PC user view your presentation -- even those who don't have Presentations installed on their computer. Presentations Graphics X3: For years, this easy-to-use graphics tool has been tightly integrated with WordPerfect Office. Now easier to access than ever before, you can choose Presentations Graphics X3 from the Start menu to create and edit original drawings and pictures. With support for many commonly used file formats, Presentations Graphics X3 ensures that you can reuse your graphics with other products. Paradox: Paradox is included only with the Professional edition of WordPerfect Office X3. A relational, file-based database application, Paradox lets you store and retrieve data in a variety of ways. To help you track, organize, and compile data, this complete desktop database solution stores information in powerful, searchable tables. Each table can hold more than 2 GB of information. In addition, Paradox includes Web functionality, an easy-to-use interface and a number of interactive tools. It also lets you publish data in various file formats, such as Quattro Pro (QPW), Microsoft Excel (XLS), Lotus 1-2-3, and dBASE (DBF). Student and Teacher Edition Supporting Utilities
WordPerfect OfficeReady Template Browser: This template browser makes it easy to find the right template for any project. It provides thumbnail views of available templates that open with a single click. WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility: The WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility makes it easy to convert batches of any document type that WordPerfect can open. For example, you can convert an entire folder structure of Microsoft Word documents to WordPerfect. PerfectScript: PerfectScript was developed specifically for WordPerfect Office applications to help you create macros, recordings, and scripts. QuickFinder: QuickFinder is a powerful utility that lets you find files by performing highly customizable searches.
Product Description
Ideal for students and teachers who require a standards-based and complete office suite solution including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database capabilities. Install Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Student & Teacher Edition on up to three computers in your home at no additional cost!. Trusted by millions, priced significantly less than Microsoft Office, it's the office suite that makes perfect sense for students, teachers and their families. Main Features Manufacturer: Corel CorporationManufacturer Part Number: WPX3ENGPCSTEManufacturer Website Address: www.corel.comSoftware Sub Type: Office SuiteSoftware Name: WordPerfect Office X3 Student & Teacher - Complete ProductFeatures & Benefits: Communicate and collaborate with students and teachers who use Microsoft Office: You don't have to worry about not having the right software to open files anymore. With Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Standard Edition you can open over 150 different files! Best of all you can open, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents Being productive has never been easier: It's never been easier to get up and running with Corel WordPerfect Office! New version X3 includes "Getting Started with Corel WordPerfect Office X3," a FREE video training CD from lynda.com Work in a familiar, comfortable environment by customizing WordPerfect to look like the software you're used to - even Microsoft Office - in just a few easy clicks! Search the Web and access online tutorials and resources right from inside Corel WordPerfect X3 Use legendary features like Reveal Codes, PerfectExpert and RealTime preview for complete control over your documents and projects Create & Edit PDFs without any additional software: Use the built-in PDF capabilities of Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Student & Teacher Edition
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 The Better Wordprocessor February 23, 2006
Jason P. Gold (Huntington Beach, CA)
81 out of 81 found this review helpful
I recently loaded the one month demo version of Corel WordPerfect Office X3. (I subsequently purchased a copy!) The main changes appear to be improved compatibility with other software, including the ability to import PDF files. This can be very useful with forms! In addition, Corel changed the skin to make it look more like XP, added a Yahoo toolbar, and for those who need it, the WordCount feature is on the application bar at the bottom of the WordPerfect window. This new version appears to be very stable.
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 wordprocessing 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!
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 wordprocessing market, just like MicroSoft did with every other good software idea to come along. (e.g., Mozilla/Netscape, Norton Utilities.) I hate Microsoft's stupid animated paperclip -- it makes me feel like a 7 year old. "It looks like your writing a letter ..." Go away! It was amusing to watch it roll itself up and spit itself through some imaginary pinch rollers when you print a document. But only once. I want to tell MicroSoft to wrap that annoying the paperclip around their cable modems!! I'm an adult!
I have three versions of Word (one purchased, one which came with a used computer and one which Microsoft gave me for attending a conference) and WordPerfect 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 and now X3. (Three purchased, and the others "borrowed.") I use the MicroSoft product only when absolutely necessary -- usually because someone else sends me a document in that format. If possible, I will use WordPerfect and save it as a Word document using the "SAVE AS" feature on the "file" pull down menu.
In my experience, Word does one thing better than WordPerfect - it works better (although not perfectly) with WEB pages. It would be nice if WordPerfect went to the Web and got the pictures and had the resulting document look like the web page being pasted in. HEAR THAT COREL!?! However, I don't often copy entire web pages into my documents. (In a perfect world ...)
Don't get me wrong -- the nearly ubiquitous "Word" is a fine product and is used by many law offices, particularly the larger ones. I have Office on all three of my computers. I like Outlook and how well Word integrates with it. Word is excellent for short projects like email and correspondence. I just find Word is just not as good as WordPerfect for long documents.
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 colum 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. In addition, WordPerfect has a program called "quickfinder" which can be accessed from the find menu. This program pre-scans your document folder so that text searches are almost instantaneous. Today, I had to find a document to use as a template for a nearly identical document from among several thousand documents. Having pre-scanned my document folder, I was able to locate the template document withnin less than 30 seconds.
The most prominent change between WP 10 and 12/X3 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 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.
Good Stuff! October 28, 2006
Timothy Toner (Chicago, IL USA)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I remember the first time I used WordPerfect, and the first time I used Microsoft Word. I couldn't imagine why anyone would choose the vastly inferior Word over WordPerfect.
Years passed, and now I find myself using MS Word every day. I'd been ground down by the thousands of Word users who'd picked it up along with PowerPoint and Excel, and who didn't have enough savvy to know how to convert documents from one format to another. WordPerfect _always_ converted MSWord docs. MSWord never reciprocated. Shouldn't that have told them which program had a mandate to make the customer's life that much easier? With each successive iteration, WordPerfect introduced some new innovation, and in the next incarnation, Microsoft aped it. It got to the point where users would nod appreciatively at the innovation, then wait the inevitable year-long interval for Microsoft to catch up, and then they'd buy that.
Well, due to an outrageously fair price point and multiuser license, I tried WordPerfect X3, and it was like coming home. It's nothing short of amazing. I went out and bought a copy for my parents, and they love it, too. Now my brother, an attorney, has asked me to buy him a copy, since so many of the federal prosecutors he works with have WordPerfect only, and can't seem to open his Word files. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
 compare this "cheapie" to MS works 8.5, Star Office suites February 9, 2006
Merrifield Winters (Seattle, WA)
10 out of 48 found this review helpful
I thought it was great that Wordperfect now included an e-mail component plus some other much needed features like a somewhat better PDF conversion utility and better compatibility with Microsoft products.
The only problem is that these features have long been available for Microsoft products such as Works, Word, Excel and Access. A much better PDF utility is provided by the inexpensive PDF-Maker program because Wordperfect's PDF's do not transfer images. I thought, what good is a PDF without illustrations, charts or pictures? I could not use this in my business or I would be called sloppy or careless.
It am also disapointed that the clip-art and most of the family templates and tools. Works has had an e-mail and contact manager for many years now. Most ust usefultemplates are only available for a steep price in a productivity pack on the Corel website. Microsoft never sold me templates or tools or seperate things to make the programs work at a minimal level. They offer them freely to anyone who downloads them. I am really disappointed that this program was not as fully-featured as it promised to be in the ads and, unfortunately, I have to direct a future customer to seriouly look at MS Works 8.5, MS Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition or even Star Office 7.0. Look carefully over the real prices and features of this product before spending a great deal on Wordperfect. You will only find that you must buy several productivity packs(at $40 each) just to match a basic edition of Word or Star (or Works).
I gave it two stars because it is only a repackaging of the old version with the e-mail pack included. File conversion is still poor and PDF conversion untrustworthy. I wish I never messed around with this product . It is like a never-ending sink hole for money
Far Superior to MS Office October 30, 2006
Ronald L. Hable (Maitland, FL)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
First, after reading the reviews below, I noticed that only one person(Merrifield Winters) doesn't like this suite. Upon noticing that he is from Seattle(Microsoft's hometown), I decided to look at his other reviews. According to Mr. Winters, he purchases and extensively uses each version of WordPerfect Office, even after saying that each one is worthless. He also seems to have glowing complements for Microsoft products. This tends to make me think that Mr. Winters is a paid or voluntary basher.
In my experience as a CPA, I have used both WordPerfect and MS Office on a day-to-day basis, both word processing and spreadsheets, and I have found that WordPerfect makes a product with many innovations that are then copied a year later by Microsoft Office. I guess they save a lot on R & D this way. Also, WP is much more intuitive for new users. I have had some clients that start on MS Office, only to give up due to its complexity and lack of explanations. I suggested WP to them, and they found that it was easy to follow. The only time that I will use MS Office is when I am supervising a client at their office, while I am complaining about it.
WordPerfect Office X3 March 15, 2007
Milton E. Ricketts (Annapolis)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have used WordPerfect and Quattro almost from their inception, so I have seen both of them improve over many years. Those years of practise have resulted in WordPerfect Office X3, a really outstanding product.
Because many other organizations and people that I work with use MS Word and MS Excel, in the past I have had no choice but to grudingly use them in response. Now, however, WordPerfect and QuatroPro can translate Word and Excel, incoming and outgoing. Therefore, I no longer have to maintain two Office programs.
Many years of using WP Office have probably prejudiced me, but I find it more user friendly than MS Office; however, the biggest difference is that Corel is responsive and helpful whereas MS is almost impossible to deal with.
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