Rodney said:
You can actually learn a lot from the little tutorials and help provided with the program.
I'm no expert by any means (I had CorelDraw 12 and just upgraded a few days ago to X3), but they do have some good tutorials and tips/tricks on their website:
I agree that their helpfiles are very helpful - I haven't had a chance to go through the program's tutorials at work - I will once I buy it for myself for at home though even though I'm using it. If it comes with a book, my advice is to read parts and walk through doing what it is talking about where you are reading.
I know I know ... read the manual?

It might save you some time, effort & heartaches - perhaps even money - just skimming the manual has given me a good idea of what is available in it so that later if I have a specific question, I have a good idea of how they have organized it so it goes faster for me to find things.
My biggest problem is that I've used so many different graphics programs that I have to re-learn how to do things in each one ... I figured out something totally awesome about Corel X3 at work today though.
I was in Corel Draw working with a bitmap & clicking the edit bitmap button opens it directly in Corel Photo Paint. I made the tiny little deletions I needed to make, saved it and closed Photo Paint down. Voila ... there it was with my changes in Corel Draw so I could continue what was next ... that is a great time saver for me!!!!! And my system didn't shut down like a "will remain nameless" program has done to me in the past when trying to do that. And my system ran all day while I did those opening & closing of bitmaps from Draw to & fro Photo Paint all day too without problems!
Enjoy! I am enjoying the program very much at work.