Corel Introduces WordPerfect® Office X3 – Home and Student Edition

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today introduced Corel® WordPerfect® Office X3 – Home and Student Edition, the first version of Corel’s leading office suite to include the advanced note-taking and Web collaboration capabilities of WordPerfect® Lightning™.

Priced at just $99.99 US and licensed for installation on up to three PCs per household, WordPerfect Office X3 – Home and Student Edition is an outstanding value, providing all the tools a home or student PC user needs to create polished documents, spreadsheets and slide show presentations. Providing an outstanding level of compatibility with Microsoft® Office, WordPerfect X3 is also the world’s only word processor capable of importing, editing and exporting PDF files.

“With the high cost of textbooks today, savvy students know to shop around to seek out the best possible value. Now, with WordPerfect Office X3 Home and Student Edition, students and home PC users alike can do the same with their software,” said Nick Davies, Vice President and General Manager, Graphics and Productivity at Corel. “WordPerfect Office X3 – Home and Student Edition puts a powerful collection of software in one box for $99.99 – almost $50 less than the competition – making this suite an ideal value at school or at home.”

For the first time, WordPerfect Office X3 Home and Student Edition includes WordPerfect Lightning, a digital notebook and Web collaboration tool, that makes it easier than ever for PC users to capture and reuse information from documents or the Web. In addition, the online capabilities of WordPerfect Office X3 – Home and Student Edition make it simple to collaborate with classmates and friends, share information in multiple file formats and capture, organize and reuse a wide variety of information and images.

WordPerfect Office X3 Home and Student Edition is the only desktop office suite to deliver a full range of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, note taking and online collaboration tools in one value-priced package. Export to PDF allows users to securely share work with anyone using a PC, while PDF import makes it a snap to capture information stored in PDF documents. Embedded Yahoo!® search makes research simple, while Reveal Codes and WordPerfect Office X3’s other advanced formatting options mean users can quickly and easily produce professional-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

The Perfect Suite For Home and School
WordPerfect Office X3 – Home and Student Edition includes WordPerfect for word processing, Quattro Pro® for creating spreadsheets, Presentations™ for producing multimedia slideshows, and the lightweight yet powerful WordPerfect Lightning for quick and easy information gathering and collaboration. The suite also includes comprehensive and easy-to-follow CD-based training by Lynda.com. WordPerfect Office X3 – Home and Student Edition works with Microsoft® Windows® 98 SE, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP and all 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista™.