For example, beyond two users to a team space where Lightning documents can be stored, businesses would incur subscription fees (as discussed earlier). The company is also looking to drive up subscription revenue to the online services. Indicative of Corel's emphasis on simplicity, Lightning strip out any thing that users typically wouldn't need. Going back to the images that Lightning can incorporate into its notes, Lightning also includes a screen capture utility.

But to be able to add a modicum of formatting to them, to be able to import images into them, and to easily go from viewing a Word or PDF document to having some or all of its content exported to a Lightning Note where I can continue to edit the remixed content without losing too much formatting is the sort of steroids that might easily distract me from using Notepad again. For example, I use Notepad to take notes all the time. What remains is a what can best be described as a version of Microsoft's Notepad (built-in to Windows) on some serious steroids.

It takes the 10 percent of the features found in heavyweight word processors that 90 percent of the people who have those heavyweight word processors actually use, and dispenses with the rest. If I had to describe Lightning's chief selling proposition (not that you would buy it, the less-than 20MB download is free), it's a note assembler that can take original content that you plug-in or content from Microsoft Word, Wordperfect Office, PDF-formatted documents, or the Web, and remix them together in a lightweight fashion that allows you to not only share the final document locally, but also to an Internet-based document sharing service where (a) you can get at it from another computer running Lightning or (b) someone else you are collaborating with can get at it as well.

In addition to the video, we've prepared a gallery of images that shows some of the various user interface elements of Corel's Wordperfect Lightning - the Navigator, the Viewer, it's ability to synch with an online repository - in action. Image Gallery: Want images? Have we got images. To see the demo, just check out the video. See our video of Wordperfect Lightning in action: To get a better idea of how Corel's Worderfect Lightning works, David interviewed Corel general manager Richard Carriere who talked about Corel's philosophy behind the software and then gave a demo.

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