corel wordperfect office x7 home and student edition

It is a far better word-processing program than Word. There are other tools in this pack but I don't use them, so cannot comment. My demands of a spreadsheet are fairly modest and I find that 'Microsoft Excel', 'Corel Quattro' and the Openoffice / LibreOffice 'Calc' are adequate for my needs. Quattro, the Corel spreadsheet is competent. so, alas, I won't be using it to produce new documents any time soon. Of course, it didn't know what pictures were, nor tables, it predated PDF and it had only two fonts. Nonetheless I find the interfaces of all three of the aforementioned word-processors to be clumsy, and to be slow and inefficient to use, especially when compared to the keyboard driven word-processors of the 1990s I still like to daydream that one day IBM might resurrect and update Displaywrite-5 since that really was a tool for getting the job done without faffing about, and it provided columns and indexes better and more easily than do any of the three big contemporary word-processors. I don't think Wordperfect is actually perfect but when compared with 'Microsoft Word' and with the OpenOffice / LibreOffice 'Writer', I find Wordperfect to be easily the best word-processor for my purposes, by which I mean it is the one that allows me to produce the high-quality, technical documentation that I need to produce with the least amount of exasperation.

When using a word-processor I do sometimes need to use the more advanced features such as indexing, table-of-contents, multi-level outline, cross-referencing and so on. The carton states something to the effect that the software may be installed on up to three computers within the same premises so long as only one installation of the software is in use at any given moment. There is a long 'licence-key' number that has to be entered. Installation with a Virtual Machine running Windows XP was straightforward. There was no written manual, so the carton is about 8x larger than it needs to be and is mostly occupied by stale air. Inside the carton was a DVD and on the DVD is about 1.8 gigabytes of 'stuff', most of which you probably don't want (hundreds of fonts, and an outdated version of the Firefox Internet browser, for example).

This particular item comprises a carton that is about as large as a medium-length novel.

Corel wordperfect office x7 home and student edition