This review is being written 4/2/2016 for the WordPerfect Office X7 Home and Student by Corel, advertised and sold on the Amazon web site. Top-notch word processor. Reveal Codes remains highly useful and surprisingly intuitive to see complex formatting rules in the document. Highly compatible with previous word perfect format files. Definitely a pleasure to use.

I use Microsoft Word when I need to share important documents and rich text format is not adequate, but I have always preferred Word Perfect because it gives near computer programmer control of formatting codes so that if you make a mistake you don’t have to waste a lot of time figuring out how to correct it. You can instead display the code and delete the mistaken entry. As a person who wrote over 250,000 lines of code over a decade I appreciate this level of control in any product as long as it is just an option.

This is definitely not your mother’s WordPerfect. WordPerfect is one of the first word documents software available. However, you will notice that this is similar to Microsoft Word. Corel has made many software products, and they have a sustained reputation with software users. I have installed this on Windows 8.1. There was an easy setup with two discs. I started using a table and although creating the table was easy, I was not able to click on a www link and have it automatically take me to the site.

CorelCAD is a good program for beginners. It is easy to install and use, plus the tutorials are very helpful. This program is useful for students and non-professionals. I know there are better programs out there, but for the price this program is great.

This is a piece of software that you have to be a little bit adventurous and willing to look things up if you’re going to get started with it. I don’t really think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Expert users obviously don’t want to pay more on a product to cover the development time required to create and maintain really good tutorial modes. It’s just really important that you understand that there’s not a lot of guidance within the program about what you’re doing.

I wish this had been around when I took student drafting classes. If you’re an architecture, engineering or design student this is must have. This will easily save you a year’s supply of ramen or more. Having not used it extensively, I shared it with my friend who is an Architecture graduate who does facade design work and it exceeded her expectations. I’m not sure if this has the same depth or professional toolkit as AutoCad but for most things it does the trick at half the price.

CorelCAD is a decent alternative to other pricey companies’ offerings. Being able to do traditional CAD along with having integrated 3D capability at this price point is very compelling. The layout is familiar and easy to learn, and having full CAD tools and abilities is often needed compared to some of the free alternatives. These points could be a consideration if you need a full-featured CAD program on a budget, but the free ones won’t do.

IKf you’re looking for software that is affordable, easy to work with and extremely useful, CorelCAD would be a great choice.nHighly recommended, even for computer novices.

CorelCAD is 1/6th the price of AutoCAD. CorelCAD has some of the higher end professional options removed which are present in AutoCAD. Corel is marketing this to professionals who cannot afford AutoCAD such as start-up businesses in architecture or those who do mechanical drawing in 2D and 3D. I thought this would be fun for my family to learn to use since my teenage son has been using SmartWorks with his FIRST Robotics team.

If you want to learn to use CAD in your design work, but have not because of the expensive software, CorelCAD is an economical and full featured suite that is well worth the purchase.