WordPerfect Office X3 enjoys a much-needed face-lift. The icons and the toolbars in WordPerfect Office X3 are more colorful and detailed than their drab predecessors in WordPerfect 12. Installing new versions of WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, as well as an update of WordPerfect Mail (which was already on our test PC), took 800MB of hard disk space.
Setup proceeded smoothly and took about 30 minutes in our tests. The third CD features free third-party Office X3 training videos. The second disc includes clip art, photos, fonts, and manuals, as well as Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. The Standard Edition ships on three CDs, but only the first CD, with the three core apps, is essential. We tested WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition, which includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro (a spreadsheet maker), Presentations, and WordPerfect Mail. This helps prevent any comments, undo/redo changes, and other sensitive information from reaching an unwanted audience when you share files-a similar feature is expected to ship within Office 12 later this year.
A great new security feature is WordPerfect's ability to strip out the hidden metadata within documents. The interface of X3 has updated icons and toolbars that match Windows XP themes, and its new Yahoo toolbar lets you conduct Web searches from within WordPerfect.
While this import feature needs work, it's convenient for editing long, text-based PDFs used by legal and government workers. Not only can X3's three core applications-WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations-save files in the ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, its WordPerfect word processor can import and edit PDFs, too. Corel has a winner in WordPerfect Office X3, a feature-packed productivity suite that's just as easy to use-and in many ways more innovative than-industry-goliath Microsoft Office 2003.
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