® X4 Do More with Words, Numbers and Ideas Reviewer’s Guide
Contents 1 | Introducing Corel WordPerfect Office X4...........................1 When It’s More Than a Page ................................................................................... 1 More Tools That Make Your Life Easier .................................................................. 2 File Format Freedom ................................................................................................ 2 The Right Price ............................................................................
1 Introducing Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 In the last two years, the office productivity market has experienced dramatic change. New Web-based applications, new file formats, and new user experiences have risen to prominence as vendors attempt to turn new technologies into a larger share of the highly profitable office productivity market. Corel® WordPerfect® Office has long been the leading alternative to Microsoft® Office.
with the traditional, trusted formatting power of Corel WordPerfect Office increases your ability to create compelling documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows. More Tools That Make Your Life Easier The Web has revolutionized the way we live and work. While the Internet has given us unparalleled access to useful content and services, it has also vastly increased the volume of information we must manage every day.
2 Customer Profiles Corel WordPerfect Office X4 has been developed to meet the demands of the product’s core users in the government, legal, and education markets, as well as the needs of consumers and small businesses. Each of these customers share a desire to achieve more with their documents and realize the savings of a value-priced office suite that offers enterprise-class features.
Small Business Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is designed to meet the needs of value-conscious small and home-based businesses, specifically those lacking a complex IT infrastructure and having fewer than 50 employees who use PCs. These customers look for software that lets them quickly create professional-looking content and tools that help them accelerate their businesses through better output, better analysis, or better presentation.
3 What’s Included with Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 – Standard Edition? Main Applications • WordPerfect® X4 — Better documents faster: This powerful, easy-to-use word processor provides capabilities that simplify your work. Groundbreaking PDF workflow enhancements allow you to create, open, and edit PDFs from within WordPerfect X4.
data and explore information. This smart application instantly converts your raw data into easy-to-read charts and graphs, which you can break down and examine by category. • WordPerfect® MAIL™ — E-mail at the speed of search: With lightning speed, WordPerfect MAIL finds information buried by years of inbox, contact, or calendar clutter.
Content • WordPerfect Office X4 includes 8,000 clipart images, 175 photos, and 900 TrueType fonts. Documentation • A printed tutorial-based 96-page guidebook walks you step-by-step through some of the most common tasks in WordPerfect X4, Quattro Pro X4, Presentations X4, and WordPerfect Lightning (Retail version of Corel WordPerfect Office X4 – Standard Edition). • The guidebook is also included as a PDF. • Help files with zoom options so that you can adjust the display size.
4 Summary of New and Enhanced Features More PDF Support • Use the built-in PDF capabilities directly within Corel WordPerfect Office X4 instead of separate PDF-creation programs. • Easily convert scanned image-based PDF files to fully editable text, using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. • Add password protection to PDF files so that you can control who can view, print, or edit them. • Quickly preview your PDF files by using automatic PDF viewing.
Enhanced Compatibility • Easily open Microsoft® Office 2007 XML files with WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations. • Forget about file formats thanks to support for more than 60 file types and enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. • Open older Microsoft files that even Microsoft Office 2007 cannot open. • Use simple keystrokes to open files saved with the latest version of Microsoft Office. • Open word processing files saved in Open Document Format (ODF).
5 New and Distinguishing Features Corel WordPerfect Office has a 20-year pedigree of giving you the ability to do more. The newest version of the legendary office suite, lets you import, edit, and export PDF documents, making Corel WordPerfect Office X4 the first PDF office suite. New Web-connected tools for notebooking, data analysis, and collaboration make Corel WordPerfect Office X4 the first hybrid online/offline office suite.
Are you faced with having to archive your files in a way that meets ISO standards? With new compliance with the PDF/A format, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 ensures that your important files are properly preserved. Whether you use PDF files for archiving or publishing content to the Web, WordPerfect X4 is up to the task. New! Import scanned PDFs: Now you can do more with scanned PDFs than just read them.
New! Password protection: You can now decide who can view, copy, edit, or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create in Corel WordPerfect Office X4. Give it a try Adding password protection to a PDF 1 Insert the Corel WordPerfect Office X4 Press Kit CD in your CD drive. 2 Click File menu ` Open. 3 In the Open File dialog box, choose sampleflyer.wpd from the Sample File folder on the Corel WordPerfect Office X4 Press Kit CD, and click Open. 4 Click File menu ` Publish to PDF.
Give it a try 2 Click File menu ` Open. 3 In the Open File dialog box, choose sampleflyer.wpd from the Sample File folder on the Corel WordPerfect Office X4 Press Kit CD, and click Open. 4 Click File menu ` Publish to PDF. 5 In the Publish to PDF dialog box, enable the Open PDF After Saving check box. 6 Click Save. The PDF automatically opens in your PDF viewer.
Give it a try 7 Enable the Generate Tagged PDF check box. 8 Click OK. 9 Choose a folder in which to save the file, and click Save. New! PDF/A support: Addressing a critical need for government and legal offices, WordPerfect X4 has kept pace with ISO standards by offering support for PDF/A, the de facto archiving format. PDF/A is a subset of PDF that excludes features, such as external document linking, that are not suited to long-term archiving.
Import PDFs Suite-wide publishing to PDF: The PDF capabilities of Corel WordPerfect Office X4 aren’t restricted to word processing documents. You can create rich, eye-catching PDFs in Quattro Pro X4 and Presentations X4, too. And unlike Microsoft Office, you can do this without having to download or buy another tool just to create a PDF from a spreadsheet or slideshow.
numbering, text alignment, tables, and color. The Notes window even lets you insert graphics or pictures in your notes. Give it a try Creating a note 1 From the Start menu, click All Programs ` WordPerfect Office X4 ` Corel WordPerfect Lightning. 2 In the WordPerfect Lightning Start Panel, click Make a note. 3 In the Notes window, type some text. The text you type becomes the note title in the Navigator.
Snapshot Tool: You can easily take a snapshot of any area of your desktop or Web browser with the Snapshot tool with a simple click-and-drag. The snapshot is saved as a note, which you can then e-mail, print, or save as an image file, or send to WordPerfect X4. You can access the Snapshot tool from the Navigator, the Notes window, the Viewer, and the Start Panel. Give it a try Taking a snapshot 1 From the Start menu, click All Programs ` WordPerfect Office X4 ` Corel WordPerfect Lightning.
your desktop to the Connector online, where you can share up to 200 MB of notes and documents with other online users. Corel® Visual Intelligence™ Corel Visual Intelligence is business intelligence for the masses, letting you visualize and analyze complex data easier than ever. When you open a Quattro Pro spreadsheet in Corel Visual Intelligence, the graph that best suits the data is automatically displayed.
Online Services Today’s PC users are as comfortable performing tasks on the Web as they are on the desktop. Corel WordPerfect Office X4 works the same way, offering users the option to work both online and offline. With the addition of online services, Corel WordPerfect Office blends the flexibility of Web-based productivity solutions with the powerful features and toolset of a traditional desktop suite.
New! Redaction: Adding to its list of impressive security features, WordPerfect X4 now offers versatile redaction tools. You can now replace sensitive or confidential information with a black bar in a way that ensures that the replaced text cannot be retrieved or revealed in the redacted version of the document. This versatile feature lets you easily search a document for words and phrases you want to hide and automatically apply redaction marks.
window. You can also double-click any code in the Reveal Codes window to make advanced alterations to the settings or styles. Control your formatting with Reveal Codes Make It Fit: Sometimes you have just a little too much to say in the space you have to work with. This longtime favorite lets you select a block of text and instantly resize it to fit a specified number of pages. And, the tweaking is so subtle that formatting changes are barely noticeable.
Document Map: This convenient feature lets you use reference markers for an index, a table of contents, or a table of authorities to view and navigate long documents. The document map is a navigational window that displays links to reference markers in your document. Easy table of contents: In two steps, you can create a table of contents that your readers can then use as a means to easily navigate your document.
Comprehensive legal tools: WordPerfect is an indispensable tool in legal offices because of the tools you can’t get anywhere else. With the Pleading Expert, you create a custom pleading format — one time, and for each variation required — and then simply use the Pleading Expert Filler to complete your pleadings. To save time, help you get organized, and streamline your workflow, you can turn on the Legal toolbar.
processing documents (DOCX), spreadsheets (XLSX), and slideshows (PPTX) files created with Microsoft Office 2007. Give it a try Opening a Microsoft Word 2007 document 1 Click File menu ` Open. 2 In the Open File dialog box, choose msdocxfile.docx from the Sample File folder on the Corel WordPerfect Office X4 Press Kit CD, and click Open.
The Right Price By adding new notetaking, data analysis, and online tools, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 has broadened the definition of the office suite. By acknowledging that some tasks are better suited for the desktop and others online, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 is changing expectations of the kind of value an office suite should offer.
A Appendix A: Supported File Formats This table shows just a sample of file formats supported in WordPerfect Office X4. WordPerfect® X4 WordPerfect (WPD) MS Word 2007 (DOCX) PDF MS Word 97/2000/XP (DOC) Rich Text Format (RTF) XML HTML MS Word Win 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a, 1.2, 1.2a, 2.0a, 2.0b, 2.0c, 5.5, 6.0, 95 (v 7.0) (DOC) WordPerfect Merge Forms (FRM) WordPerfect Merge Data (DAT) WordPerfect Templates (WPT) WordPerfect Macros (WCM) WordPerfect Compound File (WPD) WordPerfect 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.
Quattro Pro® X4 Quattro Pro 9, 10, 11, 12, X3, X4 (QPW) MS Excel 3, 4, 5, 7, 95, 97, 2000, XP (XLS) MS Excel 2007 (XLSX) PDF XML HTML Quattro Pro 7, 8 (WB3) Quattro Pro Windows 6.0 (WB2) Quattro Pro Win 1.0, 5.0 (WB1) Quattro Pro DOS 5.0, 5.5 (WQ2) Quattro Pro DOS (WQ1) Lotus 1-2-3 97/9.x (123) Lotus 1-2-3 4.0, 5.0 (WK4) Lotus 1-2-3 1.0 (WKS) Lotus 1-2-3 Ed (WKE) Lotus 1-2-3 2.x (WK1) Lotus 1-2-3 3.
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