Reviewer’s Guide
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Table of Contents 1 | Introducing WordPerfect Office X3.....................................1 It’s Compatible .......................................................................................................... 1 It’s Easy to use ........................................................................................................... 1 It’s Feature-rich.......................................................................................................... 2 It’s Affordable ........................
1 Introducing WordPerfect® Office X3 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. With lightning speed, the new WordPerfect® MAIL™ application will find information in the most cluttered inbox.
It’s Feature-rich WordPerfect Office X3 offers an outstanding collection of rich features that help you get the job done. As the world’s only office suite that can import PDF files without requiring additional software or expense, WordPerfect Office X3 makes it easier than ever to repurpose content. A new Count button has been added to the application bar, so the Word Count feature is now always just a click away.
2 WordPerfect® Office X3 Customer Profiles WordPerfect Office X3 has been designed specifically for six key customer segments, each with distinct characteristics and needs. To indicate which features are most applicable to which customer segment, the following segment icons have been used throughout this reviewer’s guide. Please note that each icon denotes the segment for which a feature is most applicable. The benefits of the features described, however, are not limited to those segments.
Small Business Cost-conscious, small- or home-based businesses, typically with fewer than 50 PC-using employees and without a complex IT infrastructure, require software that allows professional-looking content to be created quickly.
3 What’s Included with WordPerfect® Office X3 – Standard Edition? Main Applications • WordPerfect® X3: This powerful word-processing application provides capabilities that simplify your work. Easy to use and highly compatible with Microsoft® Word, WordPerfect X3 provides all the tools needed to create dynamic documents that are easily shared with other computer users.
• 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.
• Printed 256-page user guide (Retail version of WordPerfect Office X3 – Standard Edition) • The user guide is also included as a PDF.
4 Summary of New and Enhanced Features Suite-wide • Built-in publish to PDF capabilities make it easy and cost-effective to share WordPerfect Office documents while maintaining control over content and appearance. • With WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, it’s easy to exchange information with Microsoft® Office users thanks to enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats.
• Access online resources and quickly conduct Web searches with the new WordPerfect® Online Resources featuring Yahoo!® Search. • Gain more control and quickly access the enhanced Word Count feature by using the new Count button on the application bar. • Enhanced Document Routing makes it easy to collect feedback from multiple collaborators.
5 Top New and Distinguishing Features Suite-wide Renowned for the freedom that it affords you to work in whichever manner you choose, WordPerfect Office continues to provide more options and flexibility in how you get the job done. The often imitated, yet still unrivaled, Reveal Codes feature eliminates document formatting problems. In addition, the exceptional Corel RealTime Preview lets you see exactly how potential formatting changes will look before applying them.
Compatibility for text alignment and table borders have been enhanced with WordPerfect X3 so that they are imported more accurately from Microsoft Word. Plus, support for automatic paragraph numbering has been improved. For Quattro Pro X3, support for comments within the Excel spreadsheet and support for cell formatting in Excel 2000 exports have been improved.
PerfectExpert™: Get started quickly with the PerfectExpert, a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice. Positioned on the left side of the workspace, this comprehensive resource waits unobtrusively to provide help when you need it. When you start a PerfectExpert project, the PerfectExpert panel dynamically updates to provide advice and guidance specific to the task at hand.
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.
Give it a try Importing a PDF file 1 Click File ` Open. 2 Choose the drive and folder in which the PDF is stored, select the file, and click Open. If the PDF is protected by a password, type the password in the Password box. 3 You can now edit the document’s content, formatting, and graphics. To save your changes, click the Save button. 4 In the Save File dialog box, type a name for the document in the File name box, choose a format from the File type list box, and click Save.
Give it a try 4 From the PDF style list box, choose one of the following options: • Smallest file — Creates a PDF that is intended for online viewing (for example, a document distributed by e-mail or displayed on the World Wide Web). • Standard desktop printing and viewing — Creates a PDF that is intended for viewing or printing on a laser or desktop printer. • Highest quality — Creates a high-quality PDF that is intended for sending to a printer or a digital copier. 5 Click OK.
include or exclude headers, footers, comments, footnotes, endnotes, watermarks, text boxes, and box captions. The new Count button appears on the application bar, making word count functionality easier to access than ever before. Give it a try Counting words in a document 1 Click Tools ` Word Count. 2 To exclude document elements from the count, disable any of the following check boxes, and click OK.
Enhanced! Integration with WordPerfect® MAIL™: WordPerfect allows you to use your WordPerfect MAIL address book in WordPerfect. For example, you can choose an individual from the WordPerfect MAIL contact list when creating routing slips for document tracking or creating envelopes and labels. Give it a try Using a WordPerfect® MAIL™ address book with WordPerfect® 1 In WordPerfect X3, click Tools ` Address Book. The Address Book dialog box opens.
The new Save Without Metadata dialog box makes it easy to remove metadata from your documents. Give it a try Saving a WordPerfect® X3 document without metadata 1 Click File ` Save Without Metadata. 2 Enable the Keep Original Document Open check box. If this check box is not enabled, the original document will close, and the metadata-free version will remain open. 3 Choose the drive and folder in which you want to save the document.
window. You can also double-click any code in the Reveal Codes window to make advanced alterations to the settings or styles. Pleading Expert and Legal toolbar: The Pleading Expert is another example of WordPerfect providing customization options to fit every need. 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.
Give it a try Publishing a Quattro Pro® spreadsheet to PDF 1 Click View ` Toolbars, enable the Compatibility option in the list of available toolbars, and click OK. 2 On the Compatibility toolbar, click the PDF button. 3 On the General tab, click Browse. Choose the drive and folder in which you want to save the file, type a filename in the Filename box, and click Save.
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 compatiblity 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.
Give it a try 4 From the PDF style list box, choose one of the following options: • Smallest file — Creates a PDF file that is intended for online viewing (for example, a document distributed by e-mail or displayed on the World Wide Web). • Standard desktop printing and viewing — Creates a PDF file that is intended for viewing or printing on a laser or desktop printer. • Highest quality — Creates a high-quality PDF file that is intended for sending to a printer or a digital copier. 5 Click OK.
Layout tools: Presentations Graphics X3 provides layout tools that help you easily position objects in your drawings. There are guides and a customizable grid, both with convenient snap-to functionality. You can also turn on the ruler and add horizontal or vertical guides by simply dragging them from the ruler. In addition, there are tools for changing object order and position, as well as for aligning, flipping, rotating, combining, grouping, and separating objects.
Trace tool: With a single click, Presentations Graphics X3 lets you quickly convert bitmaps to vectors. Scrapbook™: The Scrapbook™ lets you browse through a selection of clipart images and photos that you can use to enhance your drawings, presentations, slide shows, or documents. Bitmap editor: Presentations Graphics X3 includes a bitmap editor that lets you create and edit bitmap images. The bitmap editor includes paintbrush, airbrush, eraser, flood fill, and pickup-color tools.
WordPerfect® MAIL™ With lightning speed, WordPerfect MAIL finds information buried by years of inbox, contact, and calendar clutter. This new addition to the WordPerfect Office family is a full-featured, easy-to-use application that provides e-mail, calendar, and contact management. Without the complexity of Outlook, you can easily use WordPerfect MAIL to connect to mail services from an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Give it a try 2 In the Preview pane, click the magnifying glass icon next to the Subject field to search for all messages that contain the same words in the Subject line, or click the magnifying glass next to the From field to search for all messages that contain the sender's name. The search results of either search appear in the Message List pane, with the number of messages that met the search criteria appearing in the title bar.
Spam protection: To protect you from junk e-mail, or spam, WordPerfect MAIL includes SAproxy Pro, the most comprehensive anti-spam software available today. With a five-point protection system to fight spam, SAproxy Pro learns from stored e-mail, uses a whitelist and blacklist system to filter incoming e-mail, uses rules to scan incoming e-mail, consults with community blacklists, and calculates historical averages of received e-mail.
6 Comparing WordPerfect® Office X3 Editions WordPerfect® Office X3 – Standard Edition WordPerfect Office X3 – Standard Edition includes the trusted power of WordPerfect X3 for word processing, Quattro Pro X3 for spreadsheets and charts, Presentations X3 for multimedia slide shows, WordPerfect MAIL for communication, and Presentations Graphics X3 for creating and editing original drawings and bitmaps.
WordPerfect® Office X3 – Home Edition Designed with the specific needs of home computer users in mind, WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition provides eight leading home PC tools in one complete package.
7 Additional Services and Resources from Corel Corel® Customer Support Services Free support: Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, the Corel Knowledge Base provides free and unlimited support for all registered users of Corel’s retail and licensed software. This searchable Web-based tool provides answers to commonly asked technical questions. Responses are searchable in seven languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese.
Corel® Professional Services™ The Corel® Professional Services™ team builds solutions for international market leaders in government and Fortune 1000 organizations, including aerospace, defense, manufacturing, utilities, retail, and financial services. Corel Professional Services team members possess experience and expertise from years of application rollouts, pilot project programs, and 3rd-party integrations.
macros, templates, and customized user settings from previous versions of WordPerfect Office. New! WordPerfect® Office X3 Programming Guide for VBA: New for WordPerfect Office X3, this manual is a resource for developing and distributing Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) solutions. It provides detailed instructions for creating, running, debugging, providing a user interface, for organizing and deploying macros created with VBA. The guide also includes a glossary of terms.
A Appendix A: Comparison of WordPerfect® Office X3 Editions This table illustrates the differences between the Standard, Professional, Student and Teacher, and Home editions of WordPerfect Office X3.
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