Corel® WordPerfect® Office X4 – Home & Student Edition provides home PC users and students with all the essential tools for completing tasks quickly and easily. Create high-quality documents, spreadsheets and presentations, manage finances, and organize notes and information. Plus, save money and easily share work with enhanced Microsoft® Office compatibility, built-in PDF tools and online services.

Overview

Whether you're creating content from scratch, collaborating with others or presenting information, Home & Student Edition helps you work faster and get better results. Online and off, it has all the tools you need.

• Easily format multi-page documents for a more polished look
• Quickly create budgets, schedules, calendars and lists
• Produce multimedia slide shows for family, friends and school projects
• Understand and communicate data more easily
• Tap into all the information and images on the Web with a new digital notebook

Features

From capturing material on the Web and putting that content to work, to quickly interpreting complex data, to enhancing your ability to share documents, WordPerfect Office X4 helps you make the most of today's ever-rising tide of information.

File Format Freedom

New! Microsoft Office 2007 Support

Easily open, view and edit Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® files created with Microsoft Office 2007.*

Enhanced Compatibility

Open new and old files with broad support for over 60 file formats, including current open standards such as OOXML and ODF. In fact, open older Microsoft files that even Microsoft Office 2007 cannot open.

New! Open Document Format (ODF)

Open and edit ODF word-processing files, the ISO-standard for storing and archiving documents.

Windows Vista® and Windows® XP Support

Work with the latest Microsoft operating systems.

More Built-in PDF Tools

Suite-wide Publish to PDF – Adobe® Acrobat® not required

Turn your documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with anyone — without having to download or buy another tool.

New! PDF Password Protection

Control who can view, copy, edit or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create in WordPerfect Office X4.

New! Tagged PDF Support

Ensure that the PDFs you create flow properly on handheld devices such as BlackBerry® and Palm® Treo™, and that they can be read by devices for the visually impaired, meeting government accessibility standards.

Enhanced! PDF File Size Options

Output your PDFs to a variety of media, including the Web, email or print. Tailor file size and printing resolution options to best suit the platform on which your work will be viewed.

New Online Services

WordPerfect® Lightning™

• Take notes and gather information from multiple sources, including the Web, email and other documents
• Open and view PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft Word files with the Viewer
• Organize your ideas and documents with the familiar folder structure of the Navigator
• Get a FREE 200 MB online storage account plus other online services

Find out more about WordPerfect Lightning.

Connect Online

Communicate with free online tools directly from WordPerfect Office X4.

Rich Documents & Presentations

New! Redaction

Replace sensitive or confidential information with a black bar to ensure that the replaced text cannot be retrieved or revealed. Output to WordPerfect, Microsoft Word or PDF.

Reveal Codes

Reduce the time it takes to format documents, especially long, multi-page documents. By using Reveal Codes, you can quickly view and change formatting at any point in the document.

Make It Fit™

Sometimes you have just a little too much to say in the space provided. This long-time favorite feature lets you select a block of text and instantly resize it to fit a specified number of pages.

Corel® RealTime Preview

Quickly and easily format your documents by previewing changes as you make them. By testing changes to formatting in real time, you can work faster and experiment freely.

PerfectExpert™

Get started quickly with a step-by-step guide that offers an array of project templates and helpful advice.

Customizable Workspace

Tailor your work environment by customizing menus, shortcut keys and toolbars to your preferences. Or switch to "Microsoft Office Mode" with a few easy clicks.

Effortless Slide Show Creation from an Outline

This time-saver lets you convert an outline created in WordPerfect or WordPerfect Lightning into a Presentations slide show. Each bullet in your outline becomes a slide, so you can spend your time on the content of your presentation, not the formatting.

Metadata Removal

Ensure that you'll never get caught with confidential or sensitive information in your documents.

Attention-getting Slide Shows

Engage your audience with multimedia slide shows, proposals, demonstrations and interactive reports.

Easy File Sharing

Open, edit and create Microsoft PowerPoint files.

Publish Online

Publish your slide show to HTML or Macromedia Flash™ to show it on the Web.

Spreadsheets & Data Analysis

Corel® Quattro Pro® X4

• Create budgets, invoices, receipts and expense reports
• Open, edit and create Microsoft Excel files
• Organize, analyze and share data for better decision-making

New! Corel® Visual Intelligence™ SE**

Visualize Data

Turn spreadsheet data or live data from the Web into interactive, highly visual charts, tables, graphs and more.

Identify Trends

Quickly identify value ranges with color-coded cells and use rich visual graphs to interpret your data better.

Tailor Data Analysis

Customize your analysis with a series of sliders that let you adjust the range of data being analyzed and visualized.

Perform "What-If" Analyses

Explore your options by using several sets of values in one or more formulas to view all the various results.

Extras

Tutorial-based Guidebook

Get step-by-step help on common productivity tasks.

Free 2-hour lynda.com Training Video

Learn proper workflow, problem solving skills, tips and techniques from the experts.

New! Clipart

Enhance your documents, slide shows and spreadsheets with 8,000 new high-quality clipart images.

New! Stamps.com

Print postage directly from your PC to save time and money.

System Requirements

• Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Business (32 Bit and 64 Bit)* or Windows® XP Home, Media, or Professional Edition (with latest Service Pack and critical updates)
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB required for Windows Vista)
• 466 MHz processor (Pentium® III or equivalent processor recommended; 800 MHz processor required for Windows Vista)
• 600 MB hard disk space for full installation of all included applications
• Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor with 800 × 600 or greater resolution
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or tablet
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher