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While Corel prides itself on compatibility with Microsoft's file types and with PDFs, our tests produced an uneven track record with a few embarrassing gaffes. Installation and setup Corel offers two installation methods. You can download the suite or install it using the product-branded Flash drive. Flash installation is another concession for Netbooks, which don't often have a CD drive, but which do have multiple USB ports. In our test, installation took about 5 minutes on an Acer Aspire One Netbook and used just MB in disk space compared with To install the software, you'll need to locate and enter the serial number.

Corel will e-mail the serial number to electronic buyers. An installation launcher assumes you want to install the entire suite, but you may uncheck boxes if you would only like to install the word processing, spreadsheet, or presentation components.

If checked, additional tick boxes in the installation launcher will create desktop icons and will automatically look for updates. Interface Corel Home Office opens with an attractive launcher almost identical to the application installer. You'll click either Write, Calculate, or Show from this dashboard to open one of the office applications.

Microsoft Office users will find the application interfaces in Corel Home Office extremely familiar. As with Microsoft Office , Corel Home Office uses a visual ribbon layout that replaces the long, text-heavy drop-down menus of old with menu tabs that are divided into submenu boxes. Each submenu box displays its tools as icons or labeled icons. The similarities don't end there. Corel Home Office also mirrors Microsoft Office 's top-level row of quick action buttons to open a new document, open a saved document, save a document, undo, and print.

The circular Start button in the top left similarly emulates its Microsoft rival. Corel isn't the first to crib this highly visual design TechSmith's Snagit also uses it effectively , but we're glad the company did.

The end result is a familiar layout that's as modern and fresh as it is easy to use. If you're not a fan of this look, however, you can switch--via the Options drop-down menu--to the traditional toolbar mode of Microsoft Office and Corel WordPerfect Office X4.

Corel's most significant interface contribution to this new Home Office suite is the F11 hot key, which toggles the menu bar between collapsed and full-screen view.

Shrinking the menu bar buys you an extra inch or so of screen real estate--significant on 4. The menu bar won't disappear completely. Instead, it shrinks down to a small button that you can also click to recall the expanded menu. In a nod to the personalization craze elsewhere in computing and on the Web, Corel Home Office adds four toolbar skins to the Options menu and three options in the Page Layout menu to color-customize the work space, columns, and page backgrounds.

For the latter three, Corel makes the entire color palate fair game. You won't find texturing akin to Microsoft Office 's shaded-gradient blue work space background, but the splash of color does add a certain something, especially for those with sensitive eyes who prefer composing and reading text on a nonwhite background.

Features overview Corel Home Office automatically renders the application proportionately on a Netbook, resizing buttons and screens to fit the smaller resolution. To keep the suite's footprint dainty and the feature set relevant to a wider swath of users, Corel has done away with several features that were present in the fuller-fleshed Word Perfect Office suite, which was written with a separate code base.

Likewise, Corel Home Office dispenses with endnotes, the Oxford dictionary, and saving files without metadata. Most casual users won't notice the omissions most of the time, or will use other services. Students, though, may suffer from the loss of endnotes and the dictionary definitions. The main pane in each program lets you view your PDF. There are tools to edit it on the right-hand bar, and reader tools such as bookmarking and thumbnail view on the left.

Clicking each option brings up its tool menu, but you can only view one at a time. In PDFescape, there's also a toolbar at the very bottom of the software window. Check out the top pane and the tools inside it, also. PDFescape uses the Ribbon interface you'll recognize from Microsoft Word and other Microsoft products, perhaps as a way to make the software more intuitive for users. In contrast, Adobe doesn't mirror any other commonly used software programs, unless you frequently use Adobe products.

This is nice if you're already familiar with Adobe products , but if you're not, it can be a little difficult to get used to Acrobat's setup. The features on the right side of Acrobat's interface let you access additional commands and manipulation options, whereas the features on the right and left side of PDFescape offer a few additional features, but otherwise don't reveal much.

The options at the top of the interface offer more features, but some of these are a bit redundant. For example, there are several Edit and View buttons, which contribute to the toolbars being overly cluttered. Looking back to Acrobat, you may notice that Adobe's Home interface has more words than icons. The file list in the middle pane shows you all the files that you've recently uploaded to Acrobat Pro Dc.

PDFescape has a similar feature, though instead of a list, the software lists your recent documents in thumbnail views. Despite PDFescape's redundant menu options, this software makes it extremely easy to navigate through the different PDF options, all from the top menu bar.

Many people find that the ability to edit a PDF is vital. Combine Files allows for combining material from several PDF files into one. Then just click Combine. Your combined PDFs will show up in a new Binder tab. You can easily adjust the order of the combined pages by clicking Organize Pages.

Just drag and drop the pages the way you'd like them ordered, and close the pane. You can also combine files in PDFescape. Unfortunately, you can't further adjust the page order with the Basic version of PDFescape.

If you want to use the Page Preview panel to reorder your PDF pages, you'll have to upgrade to a paid account. Here are a few more things you can't do with the free version of PDFescape that you can unlock with the paid versions:.

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