29 Facts About WordPerfect Suite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Documents created or edited by a WordPerfect Suite 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 Suite used F3 instead of F1 for Help, F1 instead of Esc for Cancel, and Esc for Repeat .

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

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

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

WordPerfect Suite 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 Suite 7 featured version 7 of its core applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro and Presentations while Office 7 Professional included Paradox as well.

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

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

In 1988 WordPerfect Suite 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 Suite to reconsider and support for the Atari ST continued, but only a single developer was assigned to the project to fix bugs.

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

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

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

WordPerfect Suite 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 Suite is very impressive, a more than full-featured program with a few truly state-of-the-art goodies tucked into the package".