All the latest UK technology news, reviews and analysis
|
|
|
16 May 2008
Review Rating:
Type: Time limited demo
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Manufacturer: Corel
Size: 358MB
Number of Downloads: 379
Price: ££276
This is the software publisher's description.
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. Now, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 delivers an exciting upgrade to the legendary office suite, directly addressing the needs of today’s PC user, as well as the productivity technology trends of today and tomorrow.
Ask Corel WordPerfect Office users what they love about the suite, and they’ll often tell you that it gives them the features, formatting control, and results that they desire but cannot find in Microsoft Office. Any e-mail client or word processor will suffice for writing a note or memo. But when there’s more at stake, such as when you need to produce a multipage report or when you simply need a document to look just right, you need the unique features and user experience of Corel WordPerfect Office X4.
Supports the latest Microsoft Office file formats (OOXML) and for Open Document Format (ODF). The latest X4 now supports a wide number of PDF editing features, including the option to import and edit PDFs within WordPerfect.
Similar downloads
Latest downloads
Audio (52) | Backup (42) | Browsers (58) |
RealPlayer 15.0.2 | EASEUS Todo Backup Free 4.0 | Comodo Dragon 17.3.0.0 |
Business Software (405) | Desktop Tools (27) | File Management (151) |
Nitro Pro 7.2 | Ashampoo WinOptimizer 9.1.0 | TweakNow RegCleaner 2011 6.5.0 |
Hands on with the highly anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich hybrid tablet
Access your email and documents from anywhere and easily collaborate with others via this cloud-based suite
Access your email and documents from anywhere and easily collaborate with others via this cloud-based suite
Enter email address to edit your newsletter preferences
This paper focuses on a series of best practices and techniques for development teams looking to improve their software development processes
Why good data management at all levels is essential in the modern business (video, 6mins)
Do you agree?
WordPerfect vs Word
Pity the poor people who have only ever used Microsoft Word, just because it is the most common WP (at present). It's not until you use a REAL word processor that you realise how cumbersome, difficult to use and incapable MS Word really is. People who have used WordPerfect since it was the leading word processor in DOS days can recognise a Word-produced document at a glance - it is messily and unevenly laid out, simply because Word has next-to-useless formatting ability. It can't indent and it can't even properly justify text. If you're a Word-user reading this, note that proper justification is like type-setting. MS Word merely adds a bit of space between words to stretch a line to "justify" it. WordPerfect type-sets: it increases OR REDUCES the word spacing AND increases or reduces the letter spacing to get the optimal fit on the line. Not only that, but you can set your own optimal parameters. As for indenting text .... just one button. In case you're wondering why Word is so useless, the reason is historical. In the early days of word processing the race was on to produce what was in effect a replacement for the electric typewriter. Three wp control structures emerged: paragraph-based, page-based and document-based. If you just wanted to produce a one-page letter (which people did in those days) or anything without complex formatting any of the three was fine. Then people wanted complex formatting. Paragraph-based is useless. A document-based system is the only satisfactory way of doing it. Microsoft Word was, and still is, paragraph-based. WordPerfect is document-based. That's why Word is such a mess, and is now a mass of patches upon patches upon more patches, and why it is so difficult to get even, consistent, attractive formatting in a Word document, and conversely why it is so easy to get it in a WordPerfect document. It is also why Microsoft took a 25% stake in Wordperfect - it recognises a vastly superior product when it sees it (cf the superb Visio, which Microsoft bought in. Microsoft is not good at developing quality software). Word needs a complete re-write, from scratch, to make it an acceptable word-processor, copying the way WordPerfect is structured and with WordPerfect's facilities and ease-of-use, but it is unlikely that Microsoft will ever do this. So, is WordPerfect perfect? Definitely not. I have two major gripes with it, although admittedly I am not using the latest version so my complaints might have been fixed in later versions. Firstly, WordPerfect is not good at handling Chinese characters (hanzi), which is a nuisance as I am trying to learn Chinese. Secondly, WordPerfect is not as good as MS Word at importing web pages into a document, although once you have imported a web page you can manipulate it bit-by-bit with WordPerfect much more than you can with Word. So, if you are a MS Word user I suggest you ditch it and start using a decent word-processor. Once you experience the pleasure which comes from easily producing a complex document with quality, even formatting, you will never want to switch back. And I haven't even mentioned Reveal Codes .....
Posted by: Rodney J Trotter 16 May 2008
The best word processor on the market
I have been using WP since it came out, it was in 1992 when I bought my first computer and started my university studies in languages. At that time I didn't know the difference between Microsoft Word and WP or even how to use the computer for that matter. I bought my first computer from a firm called Colossus and came with WP pre-installed. Before I had to use Microsoft Word with the computer provided by the university but as soon as I started to work with my own I quickly realised that WP was much superior under all aspects to Microsoft Word, also that it was the word processor which would have helped me in my studies. It was the languages tool was that struck me most because I speak and write 6 languages and that helped me great deal in my work as translators and interpreter, it can help in more that a dozen languages. This is only one of the many useful features which WP offers, it is fantastic and I wouldn't change for anything else in the world.
Posted by: Carlo Amaini 16 May 2008