While Quattro Pro may be used on a monochrome monitor, it is best used on a color monitor where the impact of the visual presentations may be viewed. However, most lawyers do not have plotters or color printers, so there is often a question as to the benefit of its output. However, it is possible to have files which are created on Quattro Pro be printed out by service companies and turned into other slides, transparencies or plotted color prints. Quattro Pro is Lotus compatible in a number of different ways. However, not all macros are converted to Quattro Pro, though some may work without changes.
Considerable help is available on the screen without the necessity to resort to the user manual.
Quattro Pro is designed for use with a mouse which considerably speeds up the use of the program. A mouse, however, is not necessary to make use of the various features of the program which may be activated from the keyboard. Lucid 3-D is a low cost spreadsheet program with several unique features. In addition to its low price, it may be set up as a memory resident program. This means that it is possible to run Lucid 3-D over another program, such as a word processing program.