Each Corel Office program, namely WordPerfect X5, Presentations X5, Quattro Pro X4 and WordPerfect Lightning, has a customizable workspace, useful built-in PDF tools and a PerfectExpert wizard that eases your work. You can customize menus, toolbars and shortcut keys or switch to the Microsoft Office mode. By installing a plugin you can integrate Corel WordPerfect X5 with Mozilla Thunderbird; this will add to your account a calendar component for events scheduling, a blog and newsfeeds component and it also allows you to create a mail merge and save your Thunderbird address book to WordPerfect. Files created with Corel Office can be published to electronic media or on the Web.

Using WordPerfect X5 you can create different types of documents, for example articles, newsletters and books. The interface offers an easy workflow to users; tools are organized in toolbars and the PerfectExpert appears on a left-side pane when you start it. You can add visual elements to your document, such as graphics, watermark, charts, tables, multimedia and decorative texts, add headings, footnotes and endnotes, and insert symbols. The redaction tool allows you to remove unwanted words or information and to save the edited file in a DOC, PDF or WPD format.

Quattro Pro X5 is a data managing program; you can use it to create projects that contain multiple spreadsheets or a simple notebooks that integrate a single spreadsheet. Using tables, charts, databases, financial forms and formulas you can create professional-looking spreadsheet documents.

Presentation X5 allows you to create slide-shows, drawings, presentations and banners using charts, graphic objects and multimedia. You can easy add slides, clipart, master slides and layouts, you can see a short preview for each slide transition and you can use macros and multiple layers. Presentations can be saved as Microsoft PowerPoint files or as PDF, even Acrobat format, XML or HTML file formats.

WordPerfect Lightning is a word processor that can also work as a free stand-alone application. You can view documents, create and edit content using 3 different tools. The Viewer allows you to open and view WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and PDF files. Using the Notes tool you can create or modify content and then save it in a note format. The Navigator window organizes your documents into project folders and has a snapshot tool that you can use to capture anything on your screen.

Corel WordPerfect X5 if fully compatible with Microsoft Office; you can even use it in a to a Microsoft Office mode. Using the Joyent Connector suite, which is a Web-based application, you can store content online.