WordPerfect Office
Encyclopedia
WordPerfect Office is an office suite
developed by Corel Corporation. As of March 2010, the latest version is WordPerfect Office X5 (representing 15), which is available in three editions: Home & Student, Standard and Professional.
Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell
in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.
Home and business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Standard Edition adds:
Business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Professional Edition adds:
Older applications, no longer included:
Office suite
In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers...
developed by Corel Corporation. As of March 2010, the latest version is WordPerfect Office X5 (representing 15), which is available in three editions: Home & Student, Standard and Professional.
Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.
Components
The major components of home and school-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Home and Student Edition are:- WordPerfectWordPerfectWordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...
X5, word processorWord processorA word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....
(.wpd-files) - Quattro ProQuattro ProQuattro Pro is a spreadsheet program developed by Borland and now sold by Corel, most often as part of Corel's WordPerfect Office.Historically, Quattro Pro used keyboard commands similar to Lotus 1-2-3. It is commonly said to have been the first program to use tabbed sheets. Actually, Boeing Calc...
X5, spreadsheetSpreadsheetA spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells usually in a two-dimensional matrix or grid consisting of rows and columns. Each cell contains alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas...
(.qpw-files) - PresentationsCorel PresentationsCorel Presentations is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress. The current release, version X5 , is available only as part of the Corel WordPerfect office productivity suite.-History:Presentations shares much of its code with WordPerfect...
X5, slide show creationPresentation programA presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show...
(.shw-files) - LightningCorel WordPerfect LightningCorel WordPerfect Lightning is a personal information manager. Only the beta version has been released and it has bugs. It is unknown when the final version will be released. Any notes that are made are saved automatically. The software has a note-taker, project manager, document reader, copier,...
, digital notebook
Home and business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Standard Edition adds:
- Nuance PaperPort 12 SEPaperPortPaperPort is a computer software program designed to help organize digital documents and files, published by Nuance Communications. PaperPort uses the .MAX file format natively, while newer versions of PaperPort can also use .PDF. PaperPort also supports the stacking and unstacking of documents,...
, document manager - Mozilla ThunderbirdMozilla ThunderbirdMozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
, e-mail manager
Business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Professional Edition adds:
- ParadoxParadox (database)Paradox is a relational database management system currently published by Corel Corporation. It was originally released for DOS by Ansa Software, and then by Borland after it bought the company...
, databaseDatabaseA database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
management program .pdx-files - WordPerfect Office Software Development Kit, Including specification of WordPerfect Office file formats and various developer tools.
Older applications, no longer included:
- InfoCentral, relational personal information manager
- CorelCENTRAL, personal information managerPersonal information managerA personal information manager is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to Personal information management as a field of study...
- TrellixTrellixTrellix was a software company whose various software offerings allowed web users to set up personal websites with the use of online publishing tools...
, web design software - Dragon NaturallySpeakingNaturallySpeakingDragon NaturallySpeaking is a speech recognition software package developed and sold by Nuance Communications for Windows personal computers. The most recent package is version 11.5, which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista and 7. The Mac OS version is called Dragon...
, speech recognitionSpeech recognitionSpeech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
(not in the standard edition)
Releases
- 1993 — Borland Office for Windows (WordPerfect 5.2, Quattro Pro 1.0, Paradox 1.0 for Windows)
- 1994 — Borland Office 2.0 for Windows (WordPerfect 6.0, Paradox 4.5, Quattro Pro 5.0 for Windows)
- 1994 — Novell Perfect Office for Windows 3.1 - (WordPerfect 6.1, Quattro Pro 6.0, Presentations 3.0, InfoCentral 1.1, Paradox 5.0 [Paradox included in Professional version only])
- 1996 — Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS — (WordPerfect 6.2, Quattro Pro 5.6, Presentations 2.1, Shell 4.0c, WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows)
- 1996 — Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 for Windows 95.
- 1997 — Corel WordPerfect Suite 8.
- 1999 — WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional (WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Presentations 9, Paradox 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, Trellix 2)
- 2001 — WordPerfect Office 2002 (version 10)
- 2003 — WordPerfect Office (version 11)
- 2004 — WordPerfect Office (version 12)
- 2006 — WordPerfect Office X3 (version 13)
- 2008 — WordPerfect Office X4 (version 14) supporting PDF, OpenDocumentOpenDocumentThe Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents....
and Office Open XML - 2010 — WordPerfect Office X5 (version 15)
Macintosh versions
Of the suite components, only WordPerfect has had a Macintosh version. Development ended with Version 3.5e, which Corel released as freeware in 1998 before halting development.See also
- WordPerfectWordPerfectWordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...
- List of office suites
- Comparison of office suites
- Office Open XML softwareOffice Open XML softwareThis is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, a Microsoft document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.The list here is not exhaustive.-ECMA-376 1st edition implementations:...
- OpenDocument softwareOpenDocument softwareThis is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format, an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.-Current support:...