WordPerfect Office 2000 Quattro Pro, WordPerfect, Presentations
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Corel - WordPerfect Office 2000 Standard review
Forget any preconceptions you might have about WordPerfect, once the king of word processors in the days of DOS. Today's WordPerfect Office 2000 is a fresh, fast and very well-featured suite of applications and utilities. And as we've come to expect from Corel, you certainly get a heck of lot of software for your money.
The WordPerfect 9 word processor is clean but powerful, is much more usable than Microsoft Word for certain functions (such as toggling grammar-checking functions on and off) and you can spellcheck in up to 30 languages. It's also the most graphical word processor on test here, and its dedicated HTML layout, import, export and publishing features are quite excellent. You can even publish to Acrobat PDF format, which will save some users a considerable bundle of cash.
For spreadsheeting, Quattro Pro 9 is shockingly under-rated. It's an easy match for all the big-name spreadsheets, but looks prettier and produces some fabulous reports. Quattro Pro supports Cross Tabs Reports (the equivalent of Excel's PivotTable) and the potential depth of the program is positively vast. At the same time, we found it all quite easy to get started with.
Business graphics is handled by Presentations 9, working equally well as a design package and slide presentation creator. On this note, you can insert and edit a wide variety of graphic media directly on the page in all the WordPerfect Office applications, including bitmap photo images as well as the customary vector drawings.
Unfortunately there's no proper database in the Standard Edition of the suite, but you do get a clutch of handy database utilities, from a Microsoft Outlook-compatible address book to a customisable cardfile program. You also get a nice dockable diary and to-do list, a pop-up calendar and simple alarm and memo utilities, not to mention Visual Basic tools, an XML Project Designer and a heap of free Corel clip art, photos, textures and fonts. It all amounts to good software at cracking good value.