3D Home Architect Home and Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9

3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Design Suite 9 does a lot more than lay out your home and landscape designs. It gives you the ability to fine-tune every element of your home design or landscaping project. The wide range of tools & wizards will help you achieve your goals fast. Unlimited customization guarantees that your dream home will be perfect in every detail. Easy to use, yet powerful enough to generate buildable blueprint-style plans, it’s the only design program you’ll need. Accurate top-down representations of furnishings and other design elements in 2D Designer’s View Enhance your home’s interior with stylish furniture, lighting fixtures, customized cabinets, new appliances & more Make the ideal landscape to complement your home - complete with plants and trees, slopes and grades, fencing, even gazebos & pools Includes Plant Encyclopedia - Learn about plant care, growth zones, plant diseases, soil concerns and more

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Total waste of $10.00
I thought I was getting a super bargain on some older software. No. Whatever company is making this has just taken the brand name. I was looking forward to replacing a program I had used in the past. This was completely different. The menus and tools don’t make any sense. I can’t drag walls to where I want them to be; everything ends up with crazy angles. Cheap software made for a quick buck. No effort of any kind went into making this product. I’m just going to throw it away. Would not burden anone with such a useless “gift”.

4 Stars Christmas Gift
Amazon gave fast service. Arrived at my home within a few days. Gave this to my son as a Christmas gift and he is really enjoying it.

5 Stars Excellent Service
Was extremely happy with the service from this supplier. Goods arrived in Australia very quickly and in excellent condition. Would not hesitate in using them again.

1 Star 3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9
Where’s the manual???? A manual is not included with this software. The help files are not helpful either. I don’t even know where to begin. I’m very disappointed.

4 Stars Great Product
I got this for my dad for Christmas and he has had a great time creating ideas for his next home.

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Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Home Edition

Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard is a powerful solution for users seeking to do more while working in a single application. Create, edit, archive and share your documents, spreadsheets and PDFs with just a few clicks. It offers groundbreaking compatibility, security and formatting tools combined with open-standards support — all combined to make a better office application. The Home Edition includes a full suite of graphics tools for creating superior graphics for your documents. Paste without Formatting makes it easy to copy text from other documents View and print your documents from a Web browser Enhanced charting and reporting tools Also includes - Corel Photo Album 6, Pinnacle Studio SE, Pinnacle CD/DVD LE v8 — plus Norton Internet Security 2006, plus two WordPerfect OfficeReady Template Packs, Personal Home & School Essentials

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars It does not compare with what I already have
By the way I returned the Home Edition, because I would prefer the standard edition.

4 Stars Always a good program
I have always liked WordPerfect better than word. My edition was getting old so I picked up this new one. It is a bit different but easy to navigate and has some great updates. I would recommend it for anyone needing lots or word processing.

3 Stars Word processor and spreadsheet OK
The best part of the whole program is WordPerfect word processor and Quattropro the spreadsheet. The rest of the program is not worth anthing. I loaded the complete program and then uninstalled everything except the above.

4 Stars Word Perfect is almost perfect
This version of WP is as good as its predecessors, and the conversion programs are better. Make it your default app for Word docs.

There is only one problem I have come across so far. If you set Select mode to WP 9, it is still buggy; it takes some effort to select the text you want. You can always set the mode to the earlier version.

1 Star Do not buy for serious business?
I have always used the other well-known office suites in the past but when I received an offer on this suite at a significant discount, I thought I would try it. I should mention I’m a doctoral student in the middle of a dissertation, so the challenge was to migrate important data and documents into WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. While I was able to get it done the Quattro Pro interface with SPSS, which had worked seemlessly with the other spreadsheet, failed horribly. Not to mention the complicated details of what should be simple document formatting–the Visual Basic Editor kept freezing or denying me access.

Invest in a better product if you have serious work. I’ve gone back to the benchmark office suite product.

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WordPerfect Office X3 Home and Student Edition

Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Home & Student Edition Version 2008 has all the tools you need to create great looking documents, spreadsheets and slide show presentations. This complete suite also includes WordPerfect Lightning Beta, a digital notebook that makes it easier than ever to collaborate with others and reuse information, ideas and images.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Reliable and Easy to Use
I have always preferred wordperfect and quatropro to excel and I think the latest versions are small improvements on the old versions but probably have options that are valuable to a more sophisticated user. I just like the logical simplicity of the products and their ease of use and the modest price.

1 Star Even customer support couldn’t make this work
I have used WordPerfect products for nearly 20 years without any problems whatsoever. I bought WordPerfect X3 Student and Home Edition and loaded it. When I tried to run it, I kept getting a message that said that the software was not install correctly (no explanation about how or why). I downloaded the appropriate service packs and patches, but it still wouldn’t work. Several calls to customer support–all of whom were VERY RUDE–and several hours later, I still have no functioning WordPerfect. More than help, I got lectures about how all phone support was fee based. They tried to help a little, but none of their suggestions worked. I have paid nearly a hundred dollars for a software package that doesn’t even start. Learn from my mistake.

4 Stars Most of it works
A fun new twist on the classic Mousetrap game, but the pile of teacups seems to not fall over unless you drop two balls at once. Kind of a bummer since that stops the chain reaction deal cold.

5 Stars Still the best word processor
I have a 23 year history of using Word Perfect, having purchased 4.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 9 and 10. However, when I recently purchased a new computer for the family, the manufacturer did not offer a pre-loaded Word Perfect, so we began using a competitor’s word processing product; everyone in the family is well versed in using the competitor’s product, so it was not an issue of unfamiliarity; that being said, my kids begged for a Vista-friendly version of Word Perfect to replace the competitor’s product on our home computer. This version was a no-hassle, quick installation on a Windows Vista-based (name brand) computer with an Intel Core Duo processor and one gigabyte of RAM. It has worked seamlessly with older Word Perfect files and also a competitor’s files, though this version did not convert the competitor’s latest version files. The only minor quirk in the installation was that the program would not autorun from a DVD-ROM drive, but it loaded perfectly from a DVD+R recordable drive. Installation was fast, and the kids have effortlessly picked up using new features on the lastest version of their favorite word processor. To give you an example of why I like this product . . .so many of it’s operations are so EASY to use. Often I can do formatting changes in one click that the competitor’s product requires three or four steps to do. This remains a solid product, and works fine on our Intel based machine running Vista. New features enhance what was already a solid product. Thank goodness for Corel and WordPerfect.

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WordPerfect Office X4 Home and Student

Create eye-catching documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with WordPerfect Office X4. Organize notes and information. Open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents and 59 other formats, such as Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML). Save money and share information with others using the built-in PDF tools. Control who can view, copy, edit or print your work by adding a password to a PDF you create. Take notes, and collect and reuse information, ideas and images from virtually anywhere with a digital notebook. Plus, you get data analysis software and integrated online services. Data analysis and visualization tools. Digital notebook to organize your information. Compatibility with applicable Microsoft Office documents. Turn documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDFs to share with the world. Presentations Graphics X4 graphics manipulation program. Take notes and capture information and images from the Web, emails and other documents. Share information with others and exchange ideas online and off. Free postage from stamps.com. 200 MB free online storage. Free 2-hour training CD included

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars X4 home & student easy to use
I’m an old wordperfect 5.1 guy. I bought X4 home & student after using Corel’s free trial program (at Corel’s website). This is a very easy program to learn and use. Easily converts and saves documents into Wordperfect 5.1 format or MS Word format or many other formats. Easy to create PDF’s or simply e-mail documents as attachments (either as wordperfect, MS word, or several other formats) Can also use wordperfect 5.1 “classic mode” if you miss the old way.

1 Star Corel selling known defective product
I purchased this product and it seemingly was registered and loaded properly. It failed completely after a short use and I attempted to reload if from the disks supplied only to be stopped at 6% configuration. When reattempted, the product declared my i.d. number invalid, a defect confirmed by Corel on its website. I waited and tried again, successfully registering the product only to reach the same problem, stopping this time at 7% of the product configuring. The product and a completely inaccessable (by telephone) Corel stink.

2 Stars another MS clone that doesn’t quite make the mark
To go completely negative on this product is to discount the feelings and thoughts of nearly everyone who has used this program since its infancy as the leading word processor available. Therein lies the trouble. Wordperfect’s best years seem to be behind them and with every new release, this office program is forced to look and operate more and more like Word, Excel and or Powerpoint. There is also a nice integrated e-mail client, but compared to Outlook it simply doesn’t measure up.

As a writer I know very well how publishers will bully writers and authors into only producing works formatted in the latest version MS Office. This is not acceptable both to the writer and to the user of Office X4.

In roughly 2000-2001, Microsoft obtained 20% of the stock value of Corel. Since that time, Corel has been battling an uphill battle trying to make WordPerfect fit into nice little Microsoft versions. The problem with that is that WordPerfect is not Microsoft. It was a completely independently designed program from the beginning. Thus, as a Microsoft clone, it fails horribly and for users of traditional versions of the software, it seems less and less like the program that they like and comfortable with.

Add the fact that publishers (not necessarily legal publishers) continually refuse to publish work outside the mainstream of MS Office programs. To top it off, WordPerfect Office X4 costs more than similar products from Microsoft. I hate to cave in like this, but if you are seeking a quality office suite that is compatible with Office 2007, buy all means buy the Microsoft Office 2007 product. It will prevent a headache and an almost certain letdown with your publishers,coworkers, editors and so on ad infinitum.

This is a beautiful product that would have been helped without all the helpless dependence on Microsoft to dictate its mandatory file formats. If you want to be completely free of MS, look into Sun’s Star Office or IBM’s Lotus series. They perform just as well or better than this and at a much better price/value. If you can get beyond the “Work in Microsoft Word mode” which I found irritating, You can be very productive with this. I highly recommend everybody to at least take a look.

3 Stars WordPerfect fast, but quirky
The WordPerfect X4 loaded fast and easily. It works great with previous wpd files. I did have a problem with one installation on a Vista machine with Office 2007. If Outlook 2007 was opened before WordPerfect was opened, when the last WP document was closed (and a blank document opens), the package would crash and close. No ptoblem if we always kept one document open, or if we opened WordPerfect first.

5 Stars Great new product
Had a hard time getting used to all the new applications but it has many great ones for the business mind.

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