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from: Corel
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163086669
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: August 01, 2001
Sales Rank: 9606
Studio: Corel
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Regardless of its primary function, every computer should have a few basic software necessities: a word processor, an antivirus program, a spreadsheet application, and perhaps a photo editor. WordPerfect Family Pack 3 provides all of those essentials plus a bevy of other programs. Its cornucopia of software includes full versions of WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, McAfee VirusScan 5.0, Corel Photo House 5, Corel Print House 5, Compton's Interactive World Atlas, CYBERsitter 2001, and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 11.
This big four-CD package includes everything an Internet-capable family computer needs. WordPerfect is a top-tier, fully functional word processor; Quattro Pro is an efficient spreadsheet application; and Photo House is a feature-rich, user-friendly image editor. Most of the other applications are similarly praiseworthy. The hefty manual and comprehensive online help system make mastering any of the programs relatively easy. The only determent to getting started is the installation, which can be a chore due to the number of apps included.
With Family Pack 3, Corel takes a great step to ensuring user friendliness: a central task manager contains wizards and templates to help users accomplish scores of common projects. Whether you're creating to-do lists, household budgets, or finding online weather reports, the task manager works seamlessly with the included applications. However, if you'd rather leap right into the main applications, users can always bypass the manager.
This new version of WordPerfect Family Pack includes several thoughtful improvements over its predecessors. The last pack didn't include VirusScan, which is one of the finest antivirus programs available. Families with young children will appreciate the Internet filter CYBERsitter, a configurable, password-protected filter that blocks access to Web sites and e-mail with objectionable content. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing offers a friendly, classroom-style environment, designed to transform users into efficient, speedy keyboard jockeys.
The Family Pack only includes one dud. Compton's Interactive World Atlas is a disappointment, especially since it replaces the superior Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 2000 Standard from the previous Family Pack. The so-called atlas contains only limited information on a few cities worldwide, low-quality multimedia clips of general topics, and a few other odds and ends.
One bad apple doesn't spoil this bunch, though. WordPerfect Family Pack 3 is a powerful and astonishingly cost effective suite of software, some of which is mandatory and some just useful. --Joel Durham, Jr.
Amazon.com Product Description:
This suite of applications for home users lets you write letters, design greeting cards, create a home budget, and more. McAfee VirusScan safeguards your system by checking all incoming e-mail, while CYBERsitter keeps objectionable content away from your kids. Compton's Interactive World Atlas puts the world at your fingertips, and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is ideal for both beginners and those who want to improve typing speed.
The applications in WordPerfect Family Pack 3 include: - WordPerfect 9 (word processing)
- Quattro Pro 9 (spreadsheets)
- Corel Print House 5 (graphics)
- Corel Photo House 5 (photo editing)
- McAfee VirusScan
- CYBERsitter 2000
- Compton's Interactive World Atlas
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 11
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - All of the World is Divided into Three Parts
All of the world is divided into three parts, Microsoft Word users, WordPerfect users and non-computer users. Being in the WordPerfect camp, I feel somewhat compelled to attempt to convert the Word crowd. If you are using Word, and you don't require all the "prodding whether you want it or not" that the Word program provides for formatting, spelling, etc., then WordPerfect is really something you should try and the Family Pack 3 is a nice way to go. As compared to Word, WordPerfect is a "cleaner" ... Read More
Rating:  - Forgot the difficult Address Book
As I said before it is great - BUT - to address an envelope is now difficult - in WordPerfect 6 it was easy. So far (about 1 week) I haven't been able to figure it out. But it still beats Word 2002 by a mile, which, "in a Word" stinks.
Rating: - Sure beat MS Word
After paying [the money] for the Office XP "Upgrade", which included Word 2002, I was very disappointed. The upgraded Access and Excel didn't have very much new to offer. After using WordPerfect 6 for sometime, I thought the "latest" Word would be a vast improvement. It isn't. To add a caption to a picture is just about impossible. The two just won't stay together - I finally found a horribly round-about means of doing it, but it didn't look good and I finally gave up. Don't believe what is in the ... Read More
Rating: - WordPerfect 9
I would have rated it with 5 stars but it didn't have the address book that the earlier versions have. That is my complaint for this version.
Rating: - Word Perfect Is Word Is Not
I started my college career, using Apple, and it was fine. Then the college switched to Word Perfect and Word. I tried both and fell in love with Word Perfect because I found it to be exactly suited to my needs. Recently, my computer was upgraded and I lost my Word Perfect. I was forced to use Word. I HATE IT, especially that stupid sun wanting to help me type a letter. I am an accomplished typist,(90WPM for the last 40+ years). I don't want Word or its templates. I want what Word Perfect allows me to do ... Read More
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