A suite with a view

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Corel Systems' Wordperfect Suite 7 for Windows 95 integrated software is an excellent bargain that provides new World Wide Web features, but the new functions suffer from some problems. The package includes a spreadsheet, a word processor, presentation and business graphics modules, a program launcher, a personal information manager and 10,000 clip art objects. The suite supports the long file names found in Windows 95 and incorporates other Windows 95 benefits. The Wordperfect word processor automatically underlines words it thinks might be misspelled, and the initial letter of each sentence is automatically capitalized, unless users disable the feature. While some fonts appear ugly on the screen, output is unaffected, and users have a significant degree of control over it. The suite comes with Netscape Navigator, and users can create Web pages in short amounts of time, although the links between documents do not always perform as expected. The suite costs $250, or $100 for a competitive upgrade.

Corel Corp., Corel WordPerfect Suite for Windows 95 7.0 (Business application suite)

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Can you really eat all you can eat?

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Novell's Perfectoffice 3.0 integrated suite could perhaps be called 'smorgasware' because it offers users so many different programs in one bundled package. The suite includes the WordPerfect word processor, Presentations graphics software, Quattro Pro spreadsheet, Infocentral PIM, Envoy document viewing software and a client utility for using the Groupwise workgroup program. Novell will allow any user possessing an earlier version of any of the individual programs or Novell NetWare to upgrade to the Perfectoffice 3.0 suite for a cost of $175 until Mar 31, 1995. Users owning any program that competes with those offered in the 3.0 suite, can upgrade to Perfectoffice for $225. Users should be aware that the 3.0 suite will consume 8MB of memory and 98MB of hard disk when installed. Moreover, special features included in the suite such as the grammar checker that scans entire sentences do not always work as well as claimed by the company.

Novell Inc., NOVL, PerfectOffice 3.0 (Business application suite)

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An upgraded leviathan sets sail

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Microsoft's Office 97 office application package has many useful new features, but the inability of older Office versions to read the Office 97 New Look file formats will create many problems. The standard Office 97 will be $200 for an upgrade and includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Internet Explorer 3.01. The $300 Professional version adds an Access database and Bookshelf dictionary. Office 97 has several small improvements, such as Word's recognition of spaces in its word count, and Excel's ability to correct common errors, but many of the new features have bugs. The cartoon characters used for the Office Assistant help interface are distracting and cannot be eliminated. Outlook, a new time management feature with a calendar, contact list, file manager and virtual sticky notes, has a confusing interface and several quirks that limit its usability.

Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Microsoft Office 97 (Business application suite)

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