29 Facts About WordPerfect

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

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

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

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

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

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

Key to WordPerfect'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, the Reveal Codes feature distinguishes it from other word processors; Microsoft Word's equivalent is much less powerful.

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

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

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

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

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

WordPerfect became part of an office suite when the company entered into a co-licensing agreement with Borland Software Corporation in 1993.

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

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

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

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

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

In 1988 WordPerfect 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 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 was ported to the Amiga 1000 and was upgraded through version 4.

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

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In 1989, WordPerfect Corporation stopped all Amiga development, including work on a version of PlanPerfect, stating that it had lost $800, 000 on the computer and could not afford to add Amiga-specific features.

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

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