Corel Home Office Suite

Description

Corel's new lightweight Home Office Suite includes the Corel Write word processor, Corel Calculate spreadsheet, and Corel Show presentation creator. It's a definite improvement on the company's previous suites in terms of usability.

The first thing that jumps out at you about Home Office Suite is how much it's borrowed from the design of Office 2007. Déjà vu features include the Office button (Quick Access button in Corel-speak) and the ribbon, which Corel calls the Tabbed Toolbar. It even improves on the ribbon concept with cascading sub-toolbars/ribbons.

While Home Office isn't as feature-rich (or bloated, depending on your point of view and requirements) as Office 2007, it still offers enough features to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Despite not quite living up to the tailored-for-netbooks hype, Home Office is a worthy and more affordable alternative to Office 2007 for those who need only the basics.