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Twenty years ago, PC users started with a blank page to create a document. That made sense. Most of the information they gathered was from informal conversations, meetings, telephone calls and memos. Technology has changed all that.

Today, the Web is everywhere. We all work in new ways. Most of your time is now spent consuming an increasing amount of information. Successful people have learned that instead of getting overwhelmed by information, they must learn to leverage content to create their own works. We need tools that will help us to work like we want to work, taking content from one source and repurposing it in another.

Corel WordPerfect Lightning is a new kind of word processor and note-taking software. It extends the office suite to encompass how people work today with their ideas, information and images.

Corel WordPerfect Lightning provides a simple set of tools that make it fast and easy to perform your most common productivity tasks. WordPerfect Lightning makes it easier than ever before to capture, use and reuse the ideas, information and images that are important to you.

Use it to capture your notes, read documents, easily collect information and images, and create, edit and collaborate on a wide variety of document types. You can even use WordPerfect Lightning as a fast and simple organizer for all your ideas and documents. It's like a word processor, notebook, whiteboard and filing cabinet wrapped into one.