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An office-suite that’s hard to beat. WordPerfect X5 for Home & Student: A Critical Review., July 7, 2010

By 

Andre Lawrence (Miami, Florida) – See all my reviews

  

  

  

Customer Video Review Length:: 1:30 Mins

Recently, I was discussing the merits of softwares that we use whether Windows, Mac or both. The discussion then turned to a company that I’ve had a surprising change of heart about, namely, Corel.

Corel, as many of us know, has made a dramatic turn around recently and, like WinZip 14.5, their office suite “WordPerfect X5 for Home & Student” is another dynamic software that, in my opinion, is not one that anyone should overlook. It is a legitimate alternative to Microsoft Office and the “free” alternatives I spoke about when reviewing MS Office 2008.

* Features
** Comparing WordPerfect X5 to MS Office and OpenOffice
***Cost
*** Conclusion

* Corel’s WordPerfect X5 office suite for home and students is a tremendous value that is even suitable for most “big” businesses that don’t need the accouterments of the professional version. Included are the four basic class of office software:

WORDPERFECT (for word processing, letterheads, brochures, etc.)
QUATTRO (for spreadsheets, home/ business budgets/ personal data entry)
PRESENTATIONS (for slideshows and displays)
LIGHTNING (for digital note taking, misc cut/ paste features, screen-capture)

Plus…
900 True Type Fonts
8000 clip art images
200 templates
175 digital photos
The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
Address book and contact manager
“WordPerfect Office Ready” browser
Presentation graphics (a drawing application)
Plus training videos on the 3rd cd.

Before I get to comparing similar suites, there’s also something that should be noted that is not listed in the brochure but is remarkable about this package.

1. You can not only open Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, but you can MAKE a MS Office Word file, a MS Office Excel file, a MS Office Powerpoint file. You have the choice to create, or open or save a file from Corel’s suite, (ie WordPerfect, Quattro, Presentation or Lightning) or MS’s suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), but you have the option of saving any of those file types in any of 80 different formats including:

AmiPro
Lotus 1-2-3
Word for Windows 1.0 through MS Office 2007 (including 2003)
OfficeWriter
RTF
WordStar
XYWriter

2. Price. This Office suite is more comparable to MS Office Business edition than it is to its “Home and Student” edition. And, we’re talking about 1/3 of the price. (We’ll get to specifics in a moment)

** Comparisons.
WORDPERFECT X5 (H/S ed.)
WordPerfect
Quattro Pro
Presentations
Lightning
Presentation Graphics
Address Book/ Contact Mgr.
Template Browser
Pocket Oxford Dictionary
8000 clip art images
900 fonts
175 digital photos
200 templates
save to 80 different formats
90-day phone support
Email support

MS OFFICE 2010 (H/S ed.)
Word
Excel
Powerpoint
One Note
90-day phone support
Email support

OPENOFFICE 3.2.1 (standard)
Write
Calc
Presentation
Draw
Formula
Database
Email support

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WordPerfect X5 H/S

MS Office 2010 H/S 5- 0 (w/ Outlook- 7.18)
(w/ Publisher, Acces, 1-yr support- 0)

OpenOffice 3.2 Free

**** There isn’t another full-service office suite that offers more than Corel’s WordPerfect X5 for Home/ Student. If there’s a downside it may be that it is Windows-based only. Unless, of course, you have a virtual software like VMWare Fusion. Considering all that’s offered here, with much more tools for the buck,

Corel’s WordPerfect X5 for Home or Student is far superior to MS Office 2010 for Home Student. 5 very big stars.

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