Reveal Codes lets you view and correct problems when formatting goes berserk; it shows you the hidden codes that set fonts and spacing and tabs and all of the other formatting options so you can change or remove the offending codes. Live Preview shows you what selected text will look like as you ponder which font, text size, colour or formatting to use.
There are some new features as well. It does mess up on some complex files, mangling tables and getting fonts mixed up when it read them in, but on the whole it did a good job both reading and writing PDFs. It also reads and writes a mind-boggling selection of other word processing document formats, including most versions of Microsoft Word.
Writers and students will appreciate the word count button on the status bar, and those concerned with privacy will like the Save Without Metadata feature, which removes the invisible and potentially embarrassing changes and comments from the file.
Paste Without Formatting lets you copy text into a document without any accompanying formatting like fonts or styles. With the addition of Mail to the suite, document routing has been enhanced. I've used the Quattro Pro spreadsheet to salvage damaged Excel files many times. Like WordPerfect, it can read and write many other formats besides its own, and seems to be able to rescue Excel files that Excel can't read itself. The other major enhancement is a shiny new crosstab reports feature that retains its connections to ODBC databases.
And when you start the program, you have the option to work in Quattro Pro mode, Excel mode, or Lotus mode.
It may not offer quite as much glitz in transitions and so forth as PowerPoint can though it does have quite a few effects , but it provides nicely-formatted presentations without fuss. Other enhancements in this version are mainly in design elements such as new templates. Given Microsoft Office's market share, Corel realizes that potential new users of its suite need a chance to test-drive these applications to see their benefits, so it offers a downloadable day free trial.
WordPerfect builds documents in a completely different way from Microsoft Word, and if you write anything longer than a business letter or term paper, WordPerfect's method of building documents may be better for you than Word's, even though Word can do many things that WordPerfect can't. As I'll explain in this review, it all depends on how you prefer to work. After years of being frustrated in different ways by both Word and WordPerfect, I use WordPerfect for long documents and for documents where I need precise control over formatting.
I use Word when I'm writing anything that I'm going to send to a magazine—partly because Word's format is the universal standard for documents that other people are going to revise and edit.
The resemblance between WordPerfect Office X3 and Office is stronger in their spreadsheet and presentation components, where Corel offers programs that work more or less like older versions of Office. Corel's Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Corel Presentations have a few conveniences that Office lacks, such as built-in PDF export and a full-fledged graphics-editing module, though Corel lacks the dazzling graphics and automation features that I admire but seldom actually use in the latest Office version.
Corel's WordPerfect Mail is no match for Outlook , but its built-in indexing, RSS reader, contact management, and calendar are more than enough for the home and small business user.
While testing a batch of desktop-based or online-based alternatives to Office over the past few weeks, I've been struck by the fact that the two alternatives that I admire most—WordPerfect Office X3 on the desktop and Google Docs online—don't try to imitate Word's way of building documents. Briefly, WordPerfect and Google Docs both use hidden codes inside a document that switch formatting and other features on and off : For example, there's a hidden code at the start of any boldface type and another where it ends, and another code that's inserted into the file at the point where you want to change the margins.
All I have to do is click an icon or press a key combination to reveal the normally hidden codes, find the code that's causing the problem, and either modify it or remove it. WordPerfect's codes can be modified only by double-clicking on them in order to bring up a dialog box, while Google's HTML codes can be edited simply by typing, but the basic principle is the same. Microsoft Word takes a completely different approach.
In Word, when you change the page margins or boldface a sentence, Word stores "pointers" in a different part of the file that tell the program which block of text to boldface, or which block of text gets a different margin. If you've ever deleted a paragraph in Word—or even a word at the end of a paragraph—and been puzzled to see the surrounding text suddenly change format, that's because Word stores formatting information in a pointer to an invisible marker at the end of a paragraph, and you've deleted the marker without intending to.
Typically, you'll have a hard time repairing the damage. What's worse is that it can be tough to figure out where to go to change formatting in Word, while in WordPerfect you can almost always simply double-click on a code. Word: the Features. WordPerfect and Word have such different feature sets that it's up to you decide which one is better for your needs. Word is far more automated and technically advanced, allowing automatic formatting of headings and text as you type, automatically updated word counts, the ability to edit two different parts of the same document in a single split window, graphics that let you create a table simply by drawing it with the mouse, and much else.
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