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| From: Corel
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $150.00
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 3131
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 2.2
MPN: WPX4STDENPC
Model: WPX4STDENPC
UPC: 735163119459
EAN: 0735163119459
ASIN: B0017I8NQM
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 70
 Wow! This will definitely compete with Office XP! May 22, 2008
Greling C. Jackson Jr. (Atlanta)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Corel's office suite products have always been better designed than Microsoft's and far less buggy, but Microsoft has always had a larger market share. Thankfully, you can open Microsoft documents using Corel and save in those formats also. But, often a lot of formating and data gets lost in the process. With this newer version of the software, a lot of that loss is now limited. I also like the improvements that they've made by integrating the use of PDF throughout the app. This eliminates the need to go out and pay hundreds of dollars for the Adobe Acrobat suite if you you're the type that will only be creating PDFs occasionally or for limited means. What I especially love about this software is that they have made it compliant with Windows XP. This is definitely good for those of us who aren't quite ready to jump on the Windows Vista boat and are still comfortable with out current operating system.
A Product That Delivers What It Promises May 26, 2008
Sam Sattler (Spring, Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
WordPerfect and Quattro Pro were my word processor and spreadsheet software packages for several years before MS Office came to dominate the work environment of corporate America. I finally gave in and switched over to MS Office only when my company let its employees take advantage of Microsoft's plan by which company employees were able to get a copy of Office software for home use at a tremendously discounted rate. It was not a change that I was necessarily happy with but it seemed the easiest way to go once I had started bringing so much work home with me on a regular basis.
Consequently, it's been several years since I've taken a look at the WordPerfect or Quattro Pro software included in WordPerfect Office X4. After spending a few hours with WordPerfect Office X4, and seeing how seamlessly WordPerfect and Quattro Pro import MS documents, I can already see that I will be using WordPerfect Office X4 for home use from now on.
The WordPerfect Office X4 installation process was flawless and was completed in just under ten minutes. Even without taking advantage of the enclosed training videos or the ninety-page guidebook, I found it easy to tour the entire software package, including applications I was seeing for the first time. In fact anyone familiar with MS Word or Excel will be up and working effectively in WordPerfect and Quattro Pro in a matter of seconds.
I am particularly impressed with WordPerfect's ability to instantly publish its documents in PDF format as well as to import existing PDF documents into the software for editing purposes. The function works well in both directions but is particularly impressive when used to create new PDF documents. I have yet to have a Word document fail to load perfectly in WordPerfect and with WordPerfect's ability to save its own documents in Word and numerous other formats there is no need for compatibility concerns at all.
And the same can be said for Quattro Pro because import of Excel documents is immediate and 100% accurate. I was happy to find that Quattro Pro still does not require the use of an "equal sign" for calculations made within a single cell because that quirk in Excel has always irritated me as being a useless waste of time. (A minor quirk, but one that has bugged me for years.)
My first exposure to WordPerfect Lightning leads me to believe that this is a tool I will be using often as I become more familiar with it. It is an excellent way to store notes made on the fly, pictures, whole documents, web page screen shots, and the like. The built-in screen capture function is particularly intriguing since it makes it so easy to capture only that portion of the screen which is of interest and does it all so intuitively and quickly. This bit of software is both useful and fun to use.
Of less importance to me because I seldom have need for it, is Presentations, Corel's equivalent of PowerPoint. I haven't taken a detailed look at Presentations but it appears to function very similarly to PowerPoint and does have the capability of importing MS PowerPoint documents.
WordPerfect Mail is part of the suite and is something I plan to take a hard look at in the next few days but, since I don't use MS Outlook anyway, it is not a part of the suite that I will necessarily be using in future.
My several hours of exposure to WordPerfect Office X4 have convinced me that this is a superior piece of software, one that offers more than MS Office, and one that I will be using at home from now on. Those in the market for new office suite software will do well to consider WordPerfect Office in place of the more dominant MS Office. For numerous reasons, they will be glad that they did.
X4 Widens the Office Suite Gap May 26, 2008
Martin P. McCarthy (North Chili, New York)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Good basic word processor, weak added components June 9, 2008
S.E. Poza (Rimersburg, PA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's difficult to review so vast a package of software briefly enough to keep the review readable but detailed enough to give it a fair shake. One thing which I can say first and foremost is that everything I received was not in a working state. The training CD tutorials simply do not work. If you try to run them, you get numerous script errors and have to force quit. Additionally, I could not get the WordPerfect Mail application to run on my Windows XP machine despite it having more than adequate specs.
Additionally, you cannot rely on WordPerfect to open either Microsoft Word or .pdf files without problems. In my tests, I could open some MS Word files fine, but others did not open at all and some opened with very confused formatting. The open .pdf function failed entirely on several attempts (particularly with large files, even when asking WordPerfect to open only a few pages of the large document). If you work in a multi-language environment with double-byte characters (like Japanese), you can forget about using WordPerfect to open MS documents containing such languages. I will also note that, when attempting to take a screen capture of an open .pdf, WordPerfect crashed despite being the only open application at the time.
All that being said, if opening legacy documents or documents sent to you from MS Word users is not a big concern for you, building WordPerfect documents from scratch is easy and effective. If you want to use the software as your primary word processor, you can do basic page layout and word processing with its easy to use interface. Formatting text and editing images is very easy. You can even open the software in different modes so that you can use different interfaces (such as MS Word) to help you feel more comfortable navigating the interface.
The main problem I have with WordPerfect as it is at present is that the price is very high considering the lack of reliability of some of the features that are supposed to make it work smoothly with Word and pdf documents. Very few people do their document creation and processing in a vacuum and I'd feel stranded without a proper way to send and receive documents from others who are likely not using WordPerfect should it be my only alternative.
I'd like to recommend WordPerfect Office X4 wholeheartedly and I wanted to explore it and use it instead of other options, but the functionality to pursue this path is not up to snuff.
I missed this wordprocessor June 18, 2008
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
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