WordPerfect Office

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WordPerfect Office
Basic data

developer Corel
Publishing year 1979
Current  version 2020
(May 5, 2020)
operating system Microsoft Windows 7 and newer
category Office package
License Proprietary
German speaking Yes
WordPerfect website

WordPerfect Office is an office software ( Office package ) from the Canadian software manufacturer Corel . There are four different package variants: Standard, Professional, Home & Student and Corel Office, which differ in their composition. Version X4 supports the import of the OpenDocument format, but not yet the export, i.e. the saving of WordPerfect documents in the OpenDocument format. You can also import files from the current version of Microsoft Office . Saving in the proprietary formats of Microsoft Office is not possible. Due to the low demand for the German-speaking area, there has been no version in German since X3 - only an English and a French version are available.

history

The first versions were created by WordPerfect Corporation , founded in 1979, for data general computers, and version 2.2 finally also for the IBM PC . The 1989 version of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was the most successful of all and replaced the previously successful WordStar as the market leader among word processing programs . In 1991 the first version for Microsoft Windows - WordPerfect 5.1 appeared.

After working closely with Novell over the next three years , WordPerfect was taken over by Novell in June 1994, with the product name WordPerfect still being used for the Office suite. But the acquisition didn't pay off, and Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel in January 1996, losing over $ 200 million in just 18 months.

Context-sensitive operation

In the current versions of the programs WordPerfect , Quattro Pro and Presentations there is a vertical, context-sensitive menu bar on the left edge of the screen. This bar, which Corel calls "Perfect Expert", provides the user with quick access to the basic tasks of the respective application.

Versions

  • 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, Desktop Application Director)
  • 1994: Novell PerfectOffice 3.0 - for DOS / Windows 3.1 with WP 6.1, Quattro Pro 6.0, WP Presentations 3.0, InfoCentral 1.1, Paradox 5.0 (only in Professional)
  • 1996: Corel Perfect Office 3.0
  • 1996: Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 - for Windows 95
  • 1998: Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 - the first version for Linux
  • 2000: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 (Version 9) - the actually due version number 9 is not assigned
  • 2002: Corel WordPerfect Office 2002 (version 10) - financial aid from Microsoft (135 million dollars), Corel finally buries its open source plans.
  • 2003: Corel WordPerfect Office 11 - Corel is owned by the San Francisco -based venture capital company Vector Capital Group
  • 2004: Corel WordPerfect Office 12 - only for Windows
  • 2006: Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - for Windows (98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista (Vista from WordPerfect Service Pack 1)); in German only Standard Edition without WordPerfect Mail but with WordPerfect Address Book
  • 2008: Corel WordPerfect Office X4 - for Windows (XP / Vista); not in German
  • 2010: Corel WordPerfect Office X5 - for Windows (XP / Vista / 7); only available in English and French
  • 2012: Corel WordPerfect Office X6 - for Windows (XP / Vista / 7/8); only available in English and French; supports more file formats, with VideoStudio Essentials for creating videos and multimedia files; eBook Publisher add-on module
  • 2014: Corel WordPerfect Office X7 - for Windows (XP / Vista / 7/8); only available in English and French
  • 2016: Corel WordPerfect Office X8
  • 2018: Corel WordPerfect Office X9

Components (X4)

Family Pack 2009

Standard Edition

A built-in PDF conversion makes it possible to create documents, tables or presentations in Portable Document Format . Documents saved in this format can be opened, edited and reused for other purposes in WordPerfect Office X3 and X4.

With the function for removing metadata (from WordPerfect Office X3) the access to confidential comments and information in created documents can be controlled.

Home & Student Edition

The Corel WordPerfect Office X3 and X4 versions of Corel WordPerfect Office X3 and X4, also previously referred to as "Education Edition", are only intended for school and university students, and may only be used by accredited schools and universities, teachers, pupils and students, educational authorities, hospitals, libraries, museums and non-profit organizations religious organizations and associations. The Education Edition is subject to an end-user license agreement with limited rights and may not be used for commercial purposes.

  • Licensing on up to 3 PCs in the household
  • No product activation required

Professional Edition

Built-in PDF conversion enables documents, tables or presentations to be created in Portable Document Format . Documents saved in this format can be opened, edited and reused for other purposes in WordPerfect Office X3 and X4.

A function for removing metadata (from WordPerfect Office X3) can be used to control access to confidential comments and information in created documents.

See also

  • Office package for an overview of office software from various manufacturers.

literature

  • Doris Antony: Compact Guide WordPerfect . Addison-Wesley Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-925118-73-X
  • Laura Acklen, Read Gilgen: Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3 . Que Verlag, 2006, ISBN 0-7897-3427-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netzwelt.de: Corel WordPerfect Office X5: Writing, Arithmetic, Presenting , accessed on July 28, 2011
  2. ↑ Corel Product Page: WordPerfect Office X6 - Standard Edition (accessed January 12, 2013)