30 Facts About WordPerfect Office

WordPerfect Office is a word processing application, now owned by Corel, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

WordPerfect Office gained praise for its "look of sparseness" and clean display.

WordPerfect Office Corporation was sold to Novell in 1994, which then sold the product to Corel in 1996.

WordPerfect Office supplied an editor utility that allowed users to make their own printer drivers, or to modify the included ones.

In November 1989, WordPerfect Office Corporation released the program's most successful version, WordPerfect Office 5.

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WordPerfect Office users were never forced to upgrade for compatibility reasons for more than two decades.

Key to WordPerfect Office's design is its streaming code architecture that parallels the formatting features of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

Since WordPerfect Office has been enriched with properties from the CorelDraw Graphics suite, graphic styles are editable.

Present since the earliest versions of WordPerfect Office, the Reveal Codes feature distinguishes it from other word processors; Microsoft Word's equivalent is much less powerful.

An important property of WordPerfect Office macros is that they are not embedded in a document.

Documents created or edited by a WordPerfect Office macro are no different from those produced by manual input; the macros simply improve efficiency or automate repetitive tasks and enabled creating content-rich document types, which would hardly be feasible manually.

WordPerfect Office used F3 instead of F1 for Help, F1 instead of Esc for Cancel, and Esc for Repeat .

WordPerfect Office Corporation produced a variety of ancillary and spin-off products.

WordPerfect Library, introduced in 1986 and later renamed WordPerfect Office, was a package of DOS network and stand-alone utility software for use with WordPerfect.

In 1990 WordPerfect Office Corporation offered LetterPerfect, which was a reduced-functionality version of WP-DOS 5.

WordPerfect Office was late in coming to market with a Windows version.

However, Novell kept the WordPerfect Office technology, incorporating it into its GroupWise messaging and collaboration product.

Compounding WordPerfect Office's troubles were issues associated with the release of the first 32-bit version, WordPerfect Office 7, intended for use on Windows 95.

WordPerfect Office 7 did not have a Microsoft "Designed for Windows 95" logo.

WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office is an office suite developed by Corel Corporation.

Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 featured version 9 of its core applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, Paradox and CorelCentral.

Users wishing to use a current release of WordPerfect Office can run the Windows version through Boot Camp or virtualization software, and through Darwine or CrossOver Mac with mixed results.

The price of WordPerfect Office was significantly higher than most of the other Atari word processors available at the time.

In 1988 WordPerfect Office threatened to abandon the Atari market after copies of the word processor were found on several pirate bulletin board systems.

However, support from the Atari community convinced WordPerfect Office to reconsider and support for the Atari ST continued, but only a single developer was assigned to the project to fix bugs.

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In 1987, WordPerfect Office was ported to the Amiga 1000 and was upgraded through version 4.

WordPerfect Office's efforts were not well supported by Amiga users and it did not sell well.

WordPerfect Office failed to gain a large user base, and as part of Corel's change of strategic direction following a investment by Microsoft, WordPerfect Office for Linux was discontinued and their Linux distribution was sold to Xandros.

WordPerfect Office lacks support for Unicode, which limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe.

PC Magazine stated in March 1983 that "WordPerfect Office is very impressive, a more than full-featured program with a few truly state-of-the-art goodies tucked into the package".