Corel WordPerfect Lightning - a simple note taking and file viewer

Posted by Graham Rhind
Aug 9, 2007 at 12:25 PM

Well, one good thing about it - it’s free! It’s quite feature-poor, but might be useful for people only requiring a basic note-taking and file-linking software.

It’s still in beta. A quick test (of features I might use) shows:

Pros:

- Good editing possibilities within the notes (rtf features, graphics, tables)
- Screen area capture to note utility (similar to OneNote’s)
- Send documents from it by e-mail (thorough the default e-mail application)

Cons:

- Only supports reading of 3 file types (Wordperfect, Word, Acrobat)
- Annoying message section at the bottom of the window which is probably designed to show advertising at some stage
- Lightning by name, not (on my machine) by nature.
- Its viewer for MS Word documents does not properly reproduce the Word layout
- Its viewers only view - no editing possibilities within the program

Graham