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Switching Views

To switch to another view in CorelCENTRAL, click any view icon on the PerfectExpert panel.

If you would like to find out more about each view in CorelCENTRAL, click here.


Welcome to CorelCENTRAL

CorelCENTRAL is an all-in-one organization and communication PIM (Personal Information Manager) with tools and features tailored to your specific work style.

CorelCENTRAL includes an Address Book, Calendar, Card File, and Mailbox, and gives you instant access to a state-of-the-art Web browser, conferencing, and discussion groups.

You can also publish your own calendars, card file, and Address Book information to the Web in HTML format, and use Page Composer to create your own HTML documents.

Use the menus, toolbars, View Bar, and PerfectExpert to quickly and easily change views and navigate through CorelCENTRAL.


About the Calendar

The Calendar makes it easy for you to use powerful calendaring and scheduling features to organize and track your schedule and tasks. Through special extensions to Netscape Communicator, you can schedule meetings and events, or assign and track workgroup tasks over an intranet or the Internet. Open standards, such as HTML, IMAP, and LDAP, provide highly integrated calendaring, scheduling, and information linking.

You can view the CorelCENTRAL Calendar in a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly view by clicking the appropriate tab at the bottom of the Calendar.


About the Card File

The Card File lets you store a wide variety of information in a flexible, virtual card file. Its ultra-powerful linking technology (also available in the Address Book) lets you connect contacts and information; access files, folders, and applications; and even connect directly to the Internet. The Card File helps you gain insight by viewing data from different perspectives using a simple, browser-like interface.

The Card File helps you keep track of personal information, inventories, reference materials, and anything else you want to organize. You can have as many card files as you like, such as a catalog of your CD collection or an inventory of your favorite vacation spots. You can even organize your cards into groups in a card file for easy access to particular kinds of items (such as Adventure, Romance, Western, and Science Fiction videos).

You can have several card files open at the same time in the Card File view. Each card file is represented by a tab at the bottom of the window.

Each card in a card file can contain full address information and numerous other details about people, places, and things. You can store Web addresses (URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators) in a card file and jump directly to a Web site. You can even organize and open applications, documents, images, sounds, and movies, all from the cards in a card file.

The Card File view displays a list of cards to the left, and details about the currently selected card to the right. The information in each card is divided into fields (such as Title, Address, and Phone Number). You can also add comments to each field.


About the Address Book

The CorelCENTRAL Address Book lets you store all your contact numbers and addresses in one place, then access these files throughout the suite. Use the same addresses for creating Corel WordPerfect mail merges as you do for sending e-mail. In addition, the Address Book adds powerful telephony services such as speed dialing through the Phone Dialer.

You can use the Address Book like a phone book and information center for all your personal and business contacts. The Address Book can store names and addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, World Wide Web addresses (URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators), and more.

You can display and use the Address Book in both CorelCENTRAL and Corel WordPerfect. This makes it easy to add, edit, and rearrange your address lists as you use the Address Book in and out of CorelCENTRAL.

When you first display the Address Book, there are at least two address books available: My Addresses and Frequent Addresses. Whenever you use an address in the My Addresses book, it is automatically entered in the Frequent Contacts book. This feature makes it easy to look up the people and organizations you contact most by simply turning to the Frequent Contacts book.

The Address Book view displays a list of cards to the left and details about the currently selected card to the right. The information in each card is divided into fields (such as Title, Address, and Phone Number). You can also add comments to each field.


About the Mailbox

Use the Mailbox to send, receive, and organize mail messages. Use the intuitive, WYSIWYG e-mail Page Composer to spruce up e-mail messages with HTML layout elements such as headings, tables, lists, and images.

Whenever you install the Netscape Communicator as part of CorelCENTRAL, you can use the Mailbox view to send and receive e-mail messages and to access news (discussion) groups. You can also launch the Netscape Communicator tools from the Mailbox view.

The Mailbox stores e-mail messages in folders. When you select a folder from the Folders drop-down list at the top of the Mailbox view, all the messages (and any subfolders) are displayed in the message list. You can easily send new messages, reply to messages in the list, forward interesting information, subscribe to discussion groups, and much more.


About the Activity Log

Use the Activity Log to track and monitor all the tasks and To Do list items you have completed with CorelCENTRAL. You can also print the Activity Log for future reference.


About the Help Desk

Corel keeps a wide array of news and information, including tips and tricks, product manuals, and white papers on the Internet. The Help Desk view displays the online information about CorelCENTRAL as a view inside the main window for your convenience.