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All terms on this page are trademarks of Corel Corporation or their respective holders. Corel WordPerfect Suite 6.1 Product Price US$ In stock? Condition Inventory number Corel WordPerfect Suite 6.1, Academic Edition, CD - No. Includes Corel Web Designer software on CD. 2 pounds WordPerfect Suite Additional License, CD - No Corel WordPerfect Suite 6.1, Competitive Upgrade - No Corel WordPerfect Suite 6.1, CD - No 7 pounds Corel WordPerfect Suite 6.1, 3.5' - No 7 pounds Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS No. Includes WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS.

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A document being edited in WordPerfect X3 Satellite Software International (SSI) Initial release 1979; 39 years ago ( 1979) X8 (April 11, 2016; 21 months ago ( 2016-04-11)) and later Website WordPerfect ( WP) is a application owned by with a long history on multiple platforms. The program was originally developed under contract at for use on a in 1979. The authors retained the rights to the program, forming Satellite Software International (SSI) to sell it under the name WordPerfect in 1980.

A to followed in 1982 and several greatly updated versions quickly followed. The application's feature list was considerably more advanced than its main competition, an established program that originated on.

Despite its comprehensive abilities, it still gained praise for its 'look of spareness' and clean display. WordPerfect rapidly displaced most other systems, especially after the 4.2 release in 1986. By release 5.1 in 1989, WordPerfect had become a standard in the DOS market. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s, it was a dominant player in the word processor market, partly because of extensive, no-cost support, with 'hold jockeys' entertaining users on hold.

While best known in its and versions, its early popularity was based partly on its availability for a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Its dominant position ended after a flubbed release for Microsoft Windows, followed by a long delay before introducing an improved version., having been tuned for some time on the Mac, was introduced at the same time in a much superior version. Word rapidly took over the market, helped by aggressive bundling deals that ultimately produced, and by the mid-1990s, WordPerfect was no longer the de facto standard.

The common of WordPerfect document files is.wpd. Older versions of WordPerfect also used file extensions.wp,.wp7,.wp6,.wp5,.wp4, and originally no extension at all.

WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, a (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor designed a word processing system for the city of 's system in 1979. Bastian and Ashton kept the rights to the WordPerfect software they produced.

The two founded Satellite Software International, Inc. Of, to market the program to other Data General users.

WordPerfect 1.0 represented a significant departure from the previous standard for word processing. The first version of WordPerfect for the was released the day after Thanksgiving, 1982. It was sold as 'WordPerfect 2.20', continuing the version numbering from the Data General. Over the next several months, three more minor releases arrived mainly to correct bugs. The developers had originally hoped to program WordPerfect in, but at this early stage there were no decent C compilers available for the IBM PC. Most of the other programming languages then available were unsuited for the job, so they ultimately had to program it in x86 assembly language. All versions of WordPerfect up to 5.0 were written thus, and C was only adopted with WP 5.1 when it became necessary to cross-port it to non-IBM compatibles.

The use of straight assembly language and a high amount of direct screen access gave WordPerfect a significant performance advantage over WordStar, which used strictly DOS functions for all screen and keyboard access and was often painfully slow. In addition, WordStar was extremely slow in switching to support for. In 1983, WordPerfect 3.0 for DOS came out. This was fully updated to support DOS 2.x and be able to use subdirectories and.

It also provided a solution to the problem of printer support - WordPerfect 2.x only supported and Diablo printers, which was also hard-coded into the main program executable. Adding support for additional printers this way was impractical, so the company introduced the novel feature of, which essentially amounted to a file containing a list of control codes for each particular model of printer. Version 3.0 thus had support for 50 different printers and within a year, this was expanded to 100. WordPerfect also supplied an editor utility that allowed users to make their own printer drivers or modify the included ones.

During this time, the company considered adding to the program, but ultimately decided against it. observed that 'WordPerfect Corp. Doesn't need to worry too much about piracy: WordPerfect is almost unusable without its manual of over 600 pages!'

The next year WordPerfect 4.0 was released. WordPerfect 4.2 in 1986 introduced automatic (important to law offices), and automatic numbering and placement of and (important to law offices and academics). WordPerfect 4.2 became the first program to overtake the original market leader (, the leading word processing program) in a major application category on the platform. The 4.2 release only supported the text enhancements of Bold and Italic. By 1987 a magazine described WordPerfect as 'a standard in the MS-DOS world. A powerhouse program that includes almost everything'.

On 6 November 1989, WordPerfect Corporation released the program's most successful version, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, which was the first version (aside from the short-lived WordPerfect 5.0) to include (text-based) -style, -style, pull-down menus to supplement the traditional combinations, support for, a -like feature, and full support for the typesetting options (italic, redline, strikeout, etc.) permitted. This version of WordPerfect included, as a 'Print preview', a graphical representation of the final printed output. (This was the foundation for WordPerfect 6.0's graphic screen editing.) The data format used by WordPerfect 5.1 was, for years, the most common word processing file format. All word processors could read (and convert) that formatand many conferences and magazines insisted that people ship their documents in 5.1 format. To allow older DOS-based PCs to utilize the new WordPerfect 6 file format, WordPerfect 5.1+ for DOS was introduced.

This version could read and write WordPerfect 6 files, included several 3rd party screen and printing applications (previously sold separately), and provided several minor improvements. Unlike previous DOS versions, WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS (released in 1993) could switch between its traditional text-based editing mode and a graphical editing mode that showed the document as it would print out known as (What You See Is What You Get), including fonts. The previous text-based versions used different colors or text color inversions to indicate various markups, and (starting with version 5.0) used a graphic mode only for an uneditable print preview that used generic fonts rather than the actual fonts that appeared on the printed page. Key characteristics WordPerfect's distinguishing features include:. extensive use of combinations, especially on, enabling touch-typists to access features without having to use the mouse;.

its 'streaming code' file format;. its Reveal Codes feature. its numbering of lines as the legal profession requires, and its macro/scripting language, PerfectScript. The ease of use of tools like (combine form documents with data from any data source), 'Print as booklet', and tables (with spreadsheet capabilities and possibility to generate graphs) are also notable.

The WordPerfect document format allows continuous extending of functionality without jeopardizing backward and forward compatibility. Despite the fact that the newer version is extremely rich in functionality, WordPerfect X5 documents are fully compatible with WordPerfect 6.0a documents in both directions. The older program simply ignores the 'unknown' property while rendering the known elements of the document. WordPerfect users were never forced to upgrade for compatibility reasons for more than two decades. Streaming code architecture A key to WordPerfect's design is its streaming code architecture that parallels the formatting features of and.

Documents are created much the same way that raw HTML pages are written, with text interspersed by tags (called 'codes') that trigger treatment of data until a corresponding closing tag is encountered, at which point the settings active to the point of the opening tag resume control. As with HTML, tags can be nested. Some data structures are treated as objects within the stream as with HTML's treatment of graphic images, e.g., footnotes and styles, but the bulk of a WordPerfect document's data and formatting codes appear as a single continuous stream. A difference between HTML tags and WordPerfect codes is that HTML codes can all be expressed as a string of plain text characters delimited by greater-than and less-than characters, e.g.

Text whereas WordPerfect formatting codes consist of values. Styles and style libraries The addition of styles and style libraries in WP 5.0 provided greatly increased power and flexibility in formatting documents, while maintaining the streaming-code architecture of earlier versions. Styles are a preset arrangement of settings having to do with things like fonts, spacings, tab stops, margins and other items having to do with text layout. Styles can be created by the user to shortcut the setup time when starting a new document, and they can be saved in the program's style library. Prior to that, WordPerfect's only use of styles was the Opening Style, which contained the default settings for a document. After the purchase of the program, Corel enhanced the WordPerfect styles editor and styles behavior with the majority of Ventura's capabilities. This improved the usability and performance of graphic elements like text boxes, document styles, footer and header styles.

Since WordPerfect has been enriched with properties from Graphics suite, graphic styles are editable. The Graphics Styles editor enables customizing the appearance of boxes, borders, lines and fills and store the customized design for reuse. The possibilities include patterns and color gradients for fills; corner, endpoint, pen-type and thickness for lines.

Box styles can be used as container style, including a border, lines, fill, text and caption; each with its separate style. A text box style shows that WordPerfect cascades its styles. Around the same time Corel included WordPerfect, with its full functionality, in CorelDraw Graphics Suite as the text editor. Reveal codes Present since the earliest versions of WordPerfect, the Reveal Codes feature distinguishes it from other word processors; Microsoft Word's equivalent is less powerful.

The feature is a second editing screen that can be toggled open and closed at the bottom of the main editing screen. It was especially beloved of those who were faced with, which had at the time no similar feature.

The codes for formatting and locating text are displayed, interspersed with tags and the occasional objects, with the tags and objects represented by named tokens. The scheme provides a more detailed view to troubleshoot problems than with styles-based word processors, and object tokens can be clicked with a pointing device to directly open the configuration editor for the particular object type, e.g. Clicking on a style token brings up the style editor with the particular style type displayed. Because of their style dependencies, efforts to create the equivalent of Reveal Codes in other word processors produced dissimilar results. WordPerfect had this feature already in its DOS incarnations: it could be brought forward by pressing Alt+ F3.

Macro languages WordPerfect for DOS stood out for its, in which sequences of keystrokes, including function codes, were recorded as the user typed them. These macros could then be assigned to any key desired. This enabled any sequence of keystrokes to be recorded, saved, and recalled. Macros could examine system data, make decisions, be chained together, and operate recursively until a defined 'stop' condition occurred. This capability provided a powerful way to rearrange data and formatting codes within a document where the same sequence of actions needed to be performed repetitively, e.g., for tabular data.

But since keystrokes were recorded, changes in the function of certain keys as the program evolved would mean that macros from one DOS version of WordPerfect would not necessarily run correctly on another version. Editing of macros was difficult until the introduction of a macro editor in Shell, in which a separate file for each WordPerfect product with macros enabled the screen display of the function codes used in the macros for that product. WordPerfect DOS macros, which assumed a text-based screen, with fixed locations on the screen, could not, or could not easily, be implemented with the Windows WYSIWYG screen and mouse. For example, 'go down four lines' has a clear meaning on a DOS screen, but no definite meaning with a Windows screen. WordPerfect lacked a way to meaningfully record mouse movements.

A new and even more powerful interpreted token-based macro recording and scripting language came with both DOS and Windows 6.0 versions, and that became the basis of the language named PerfectScript in later versions. PerfectScript has remained the mainstay scripting language for WordPerfect users ever since. It dealt with functions rather than with keystrokes. There was no way to import DOS macros, and users who had created extensive macro libraries were forced to continue using WordPerfect 5.1, or to rewrite all the macros from scratch using the new programming language.

An important property of WordPerfect macros is that they are not embedded in a document. As a result, WordPerfect is not prone to or, unlike MS Word. Despite the term 'macro', the language has hundreds of commands and functions and in fact creates full-fledged programs resident on and executed on the user's computer. In WPDOS 6 the source code is generated using the same interface used to edit documents.

A WordPerfect macro can create or modify a document or perform tasks such as displaying results of a calculation such as taking a date input, adding a specific number of days and displaying the new date in a dialog box. 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 also enabled creating content-rich document types which would hardly be feasible manually. The PerfectScript macro language shows especial versatility in its ability to deploy every function that exists in the entire office suite, no matter if that function was designed for WordPerfect, Quattro Pro or Presentations. The macro development wizard presents and explains all of these functions. The number of functions available through PerfectScript is unparalleled in the office market. On top of the functions available in the main components of the office suite, PerfectScript also provides the user with tools to build dialogs and forms.

Widgets like buttons, input fields, drop-down lists and labels are easily combined to build user-friendly interfaces for custom office applications. An example: a Dutch housing company (VZOS, Den Haag, several thousands of apartments) had its mutation administration build with WordPerfect. Beginning with WordPerfect Office 10, the suite also included the Microsoft Office macro language as an alternative, meant to improve compatibility of the suite with Microsoft Office documents.

Language formatting conventions The Language Resource File (WP.LRS) specified language formatting conventions. Function keys Like its mid-1980s competitor, WordPerfect used almost every possible combination of with, and modifiers. This was in contrast to early versions of, which used only Ctrl, in conjunction with traditional typing keys. (, WordStar's original platform, did not support the Alt key.) Many people still know and use the combinations from the DOS version, which were originally designed for Data General Dasher that supported two groups of five plain, shift, control, and control shift function keys.

This was translated to the layout of the 1981, with two columns of function keys at the left end of the keyboard, but worked even better with the 1984 PC with three groups of four function keys across the top of the keyboard. With the 1981 PC keyboard, the and the related F4 ( Indent) functions were adjacent. This plethora of keystroke possibilities, combined with the developers' wish to keep the user interface free of 'clutter' such as on-screen menus, made it necessary for most users to use a keyboard template showing each function. WordPerfect used F3 instead of F1 for Help, F1 instead of Esc for Cancel, and Esc for Repeat (though a configuration option in later versions allowed these functions to be rotated to locations that later became more standard).

However, the extensive number of key combinations are now one of WordPerfect's most popular features among its regular ' such as legal secretaries, paralegals and attorneys. Although WP has dozens of key combinations, in practice users quickly memorize the combinations they regularly use and simply ignore the others. Printer drivers WordPerfect for DOS shipped with an impressive array of —a feature that played an important role in its adoption—and also shipped with a printer driver editor called PTR, which features a flexible macro language and allows technically inclined users to customize and create printer drivers. Internally, WordPerfect used an extensive WordPerfect as its. The precise meaning of the characters, although clearly defined and documented, can be overridden in its customizable printer drivers with PTR.

The relationship between different type faces and styles, and between them and the various sections in the WordPerfect character set, were also described in the printer drivers and can be customized through PTR. An interesting feature of the DOS 5.0 version was its Type-Through feature. It allowed a user with certain compatible printers to use Word Perfect as a conventional typewriter. This functionality was removed in the DOS 5.1 version. WordPerfect Library/Office utilities WordPerfect Corporation produced a variety of ancillary and spin-off products. WordPerfect Library, introduced in 1986 and later renamed WordPerfect Office (not to be confused with Corel's office suite of the ), was a package of network and stand-alone for use with WordPerfect.

The package included a DOS menu shell and, whose macros allowed text to be moved from one program to another (for example, from WordPerfect to Calendar, and vice versa), a do-all editor, apparently that of, which could edit binary files as well as WordPerfect or Shell macros, calendar, and a general purpose program that could be used as the data file for a in WordPerfect and as a. After Novell acquired WordPerfect Corporation, it incorporated many of these utilities into Novell. LetterPerfect In 1990 WordPerfect Corporation also offered LetterPerfect, which was a reduced-functionality version of WP-DOS 5.1 intended for use on less-capable hardware such as the laptops of the day, and as an entry-level product for students and home users; the name (but not the code) was purchased from a small Missouri company that had produced a basic word processor for early Atari computers. LP did not support macros, tables, labels, sorting, equation editing or styles.

It sold for about US$100 but did not catch on and was soon discontinued. DataPerfect Another program distributed through WordPerfect Corporation (and later through Novell) was DataPerfect for DOS, a fast and capable (RDBMS) requiring as little as 300 KB of free DOS memory to run. It was written by Lew Bastian.

In December 1995, Novell released DataPerfect as copyrighted freeware and allowed the original author to continue to update the program. Updates were developed until at least 2008. DataPerfect supports up to 99 data files ('panels') with each holding up to 16 million records of up to 125 fields and an unlimited number of variable-length memo fields which can store up to 64 thousand characters each. Networked, DataPerfect supports up to 000000000♠10,000 simultaneous users.

WordPerfect for Windows History WordPerfect was late in coming to market with a Windows version. The first mature version, WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, was released in November 1992. Prior to that, there was a WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows, introduced a year earlier.

That version had to be installed from DOS and was largely unpopular due to serious stability issues. By the time WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows was introduced, Microsoft Word for Windows version 2 had been on the market for over a year and had received its third interim release, v2.0c. WordPerfect's function-key-centered user interface did not adapt well to the new paradigm of mouse and pull-down menus, especially with many of WordPerfect's standard key combinations pre-empted by incompatible keyboard shortcuts that Windows itself used; for example, Alt-F4 became Exit Program, as opposed to WordPerfect's Block Text. The DOS version's impressive arsenal of finely tuned printer drivers was also rendered obsolete by Windows' use of its own printer device drivers. WordPerfect Office Suite WordPerfect became part of an when the company entered into a co-licensing agreement with in 1993.

The offerings were marketed as Borland Office, containing Windows versions of WordPerfect, and a LAN-based groupware package called WordPerfect Office (not to be confused with the complete applications suite of the same name later marketed by Corel). Originally based on the WordPerfect Library for DOS, the Novell / WordPerfect Office suite was integrated by '.' The most important middleware-suite, still active in current versions of WordPerfect Office, is called PerfectFit (developed by WordPerfect).

The other 'middleware' (developed by Novell) was called AppWare. Novell buys WordPerfect Company The WordPerfect product line was sold twice, first to in June 1994, who then sold it (at a big loss) to in January 1996. However, Novell kept the WordPerfect Office technology, incorporating it into its messaging and collaboration product. Microsoft vs Novell Compounding WordPerfect's troubles were issues associated with the release of the first version, WordPerfect 7, intended for use on.

In the lawsuit 'Novell v. Microsoft', Novell argued that these problems were due to anti-competitive acts by Microsoft. While WordPerfect 7 contained notable improvements over the WordPerfect for Windows 3.1, it was released in May 1996, nine months after the introduction of Windows 95 and Microsoft Office 95 (including ). The initial release suffered from notable stability problems. WordPerfect 7 also did not have a Microsoft 'Designed for Windows 95' logo.

This was important to Windows 95 software purchasers as Microsoft set standards for application design, behavior, and interaction with the operating system. To make matters worse, the original release of WordPerfect 7 was incompatible with, hindering its adoption in many professional environments. The 'NT Enabled' version of WordPerfect 7, which Corel considered to be Service Pack 2, was not available until Q1-1997, over six months after the introduction of, a year and a half after the introduction of Office 95 (which supported Windows NT out of the box), and shortly after the introduction of Office 97. Market share While WordPerfect dominated the DOS market, Microsoft shifted its attention toward a Windows version of Word; after Windows 3.0 was introduced, Word's market share began to grow at an extraordinary rate. A Windows version of WordPerfect was not introduced until nearly two years after Windows 3.0, and was met with poor reviews. Word also benefited from being included in an integrated office suite package much sooner than WordPerfect. While WordPerfect had more than 50% of the worldwide word-processing market in 1995, by 2000 Word had up to 95%; it was so dominant that WordPerfect executives admitted that their software needed to be compatible with Word documents to survive.

Application integration and middleware While Microsoft offered something that looked like a fully integrated office suite in, a common complaint about early Windows versions of WordPerfect Office was that it looked like a collection of separate applications from different vendors cobbled together, with inconsistent user interfaces from one application to another. In fact, enabling applications from various software developers to work together on every platform was part of the Novell strategy.

Novell had acquired WordPerfect for Windows from WordPerfect Corporation, Paradox from Borland, and various peripheral utilities from other companies and had started to evangelize the Novell 'middleware' - Appware - as a means for others to run their programs on every operating system. This 'middleware' strategy would make software vendors and customers independent from operating system vendors, like Microsoft, thus posing a real threat.

Contrary to Microsoft with its MS Office however, starting with WordPerfect Office 9, Corel successfully integrated the components of WordPerfect Office almost seamlessly. PerfectScript and the middleware PerfectFit played the major role here.

Elements of applications like CorelDraw and Ventura desktop publishing were also integrated and enriched the document format. X8 (18) / April 11, 2016 Written in and later Website WordPerfect Office is an developed. It originates from 's Borland Office, released in 1993 to compete against and. Borland's suite bundled three key applications: WordPerfect, and.

Borland then sold the suite to in 1994, which led to the addition of Novell Presentations and the now-defunct InfoCentral. It was then sold to Corel in 1996. The latest version is WordPerfect Office X8 (representing 18), released April 11, 2016. Latest Version Features Enhanced Reveal Codes, Customer Requested Enhancements, New PDF Forms, Enhanced eBook Publishing, Corel® AfterShot™ 2: photo-editing and management, an iPadApp and More Time-Saving Tools. It is available in five editions: Standard, Professional, Legal, Home & Student and Academic. Key features include the returning note-taking application, Corel® AfterShot™ 2, Corel and Nuance, as well as for the iPad that allows it to access a Corel-hosted WordPerfect for Windows session.

Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 featured version 9 of its core applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, Paradox and CorelCentral. All versions of the suite also bundle Trellix 2 and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications. The suite for Windows was released on November 16, 1998 as a preview and on May 25, 1999 to retail. The Home and Student edition, as well as the Family Pack, omit the Presentations and Paradox software. Small Business edition was released on January 31, 2000 and omits Paradox.

Several variants of this suite exist. One of these is the Family Pack, sold in versions 2 and 3 at a reduced price. This version cannot be used in a commercial setting. Three variants of the suite were created to integrate voice recognition. The first, the Voice Powered Edition, includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking 3 and was released in North America. The second, available at some international locations, included Philips newest generation of FreeSpeech. The third is WordPerfect Law Office 2000, released on December 20, 1999.

It features NaturallySpeaking Standard 4 and bundles several programs designed for lawyers. Another notable variant is WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, released on March 10, 2000. Although it supports various Linux distributions, it was designed with in mind as a way to upgrade such systems, which bundled a free version of the WordPerfect word processor. Quattro Pro. Main article: WordPerfect Lightning is a note-taking application.

Its main competitors are, and 's. Other desktop applications is a manager for Windows. Its main competitor is. 'Classic Mode' Corel added 'Classic Mode' in WordPerfect 11. Although this displays the 'classic' cyan text on medium blue background, it is not a true emulation of the DOS version.

It does select the WPDOS 5.1 Keyboard. (The 6.1 Keyboard is available too.) The WPWin macro system, which remains unchanged, is quite different from that of WPDOS, and conversion is not easy. Unsurprisingly, the menu remains the WPWin menu, and the available Toolbars are WPWin toolbars.

Versions available Summary WordPerfect 9 and newer is bundled with the WordPerfect Office suite and cannot be purchased separately. Latest stable version Support status, (32-bit or 64-bit) X8 2016–present / X7 2001–2015 / / X3? 7 1991-1997 With 9.0 2000 Desktop 2.0 and newer 8.1 1996-1999 3.1 and higher 6.2 1982-1997 – 3.5e 1988-1997 Beta 1997 5.2 1989-1993 1.0.1 1991 VAX/VMS 7.1 1987-?

Data General 4.2 1980-1989 Atari ST and Amiga 4.1 1987 2.1e?. Mac version numbers are much lower than their Windows counterpart for comparable functionality. For example, WordPerfect 3.5e was the final release for Mac OS, but despite its version number, it boasted compatibility with WordPerfect 7 for Windows 95 files. Known versions for VAX/VMS include 5.1, 5.3 and 7.1, year of release unknown. Known versions for include 6.0, requiring or 2, year of release unknown. Known versions for include 4.2, released 1988.

Known versions for the 100 include version (?), released November 1983. In addition, versions of WordPerfect have also been available for, DEC Rainbow, and systems, as well as around 30 flavors of, including, Unix, Unix, 8000, and, and. Macintosh Development of WordPerfect for Macintosh did not run parallel to versions for other operating systems, and used version numbers unconnected to contemporary releases for DOS and Windows.

Version 2 was a total rewrite, adhering more closely to Apple's UI guidelines. Version 3 took this further, making extensive use of the technologies Apple introduced in Systems 7.0–7.5, while remaining fast and capable of running well on older machines. Corel released version 3.5 in 1996, followed by the improved version 3.5e (for enhanced) in 1997. It was never updated beyond that, and the product was eventually discontinued. As of 2004, Corel has reiterated that the company has no plans to further develop WordPerfect for Macintosh (such as creating a native Mac OS X version). For several years, Corel allowed Mac users to download version 3.5e from their website free of charge, and some Mac users still use this version.

The download is still available at the Mac Yahoo group along with the necessary OS 8/9/Classic Updater that slows scroll speed and restores functionality to the Style and Window menus. Like other Mac OS applications of its age, it requires the Classic environment on Macs. While Intel Macs do not support Classic, emulators such as, and allow users to run WordPerfect on any Macintosh computer. Users wishing to use a current release of WordPerfect can run the Windows version through or virtualization software, and through or with mixed results. Atari ST Like the Macintosh version, development of WordPerfect for the did not run parallel to the DOS versions.

However the Atari ST version number aligned with contemporary DOS releases. In 1987, WordPerfect Corp. Released version 4.1. This was the only Atari version ever released, but numerous patches and updates ensured that the Atari version of WordPerfect ran on all Atari ST, and computers.

WordPerfect ST differs from the DOS version most notably in speed and number of windows a user can open. On the Atari ST version, a user can open up to four windows (compared to DOS' two) and the application runs three to five times faster than the DOS version (depending on which update or patch is installed). This was possible because WordPerfect for the Atari ST was designed from the ground up and was optimized for the processor as well as Atari's GEM operating system. WordPerfect for the Atari ST retailed at US$395 with a student version for US$99. The price of WordPerfect was significantly higher than most of the other Atari word processors available at the time. Atari Corporation published a version of (the Atari version of Microsoft Word 1.05 for the Macintosh) for US$129.95 (almost 75% off the suggested retail price of WordPerfect), which did not help WordPerfect's campaign to establish itself as the standard word processor on the Atari platform. Like other versions, WordPerfect for the ST was not copy protected.

In 1988 WordPerfect threatened to abandon the Atari market after copies of the word processor were found on several pirate. 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. A WordPerfect 5.1 version for the Atari ST was planned and in development but was later cancelled. Amiga In 1987, WordPerfect was ported to the and was upgraded through version 4.1 on the platform despite rumors of its discontinuation. The company's efforts were not well supported by Amiga users and it did not sell well. Though it could be started from the or, WordPerfect remained a fundamentally text-oriented program and retained its DOS command structure. Satellite Software received criticism for releasing a non-graphical word processor on a graphically oriented system.

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. After customers stated that they would be satisfied with a DOS-like word processor the company resumed development of only the Amiga version of WordPerfect, but discontinued it in 1992. Linux In 1995, WordPerfect 6.0 was made available for as part of 's internet office package. In late 1997, a newer version was made available for download, but had to be purchased to be activated. In 1998 Corel released WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux.

The full version was sold as a package. A cut-down version was made available for downloading. Hoping to establish themselves in the nascent commercial Linux market, Corel also developed their of Linux. This included WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux.

Although the Linux distribution was fairly well-received, the response to WordPerfect for Linux varied. Some Linux promoters appreciated the availability of a well-known, mainstream application for the operating system. Once appeared in 1999, there was little demand for a proprietary, closed-source project like WordPerfect. On top of this, WordPerfect 9.0, which was released as part of the WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux package, was not a native Linux application like WP 6-8, but derived from the Windows version using Corel's own version of the compatibility library, and hence had performance problems. WordPerfect failed to gain a large user base, and as part of Corel's change of strategic direction following a (non-voting) investment by Microsoft, WordPerfect for Linux was discontinued and their Linux distribution was sold to. In April 2004, Corel re-released WordPerfect 8.1 (the last Linux-native version) with some updates, as a 'proof of concept' and to test the Linux market. As of 2011, WordPerfect for Linux is not available for purchase.

Wordperfect For Dos Download

Linux applications may use the libwpd library to convert Word Perfect documents. IOS A WordPerfect X7 app exists on, but it is merely remote desktop software connecting to a Corel-hosted WordPerfect for Windows session. Unicode and Asian language editing WordPerfect lacks support forwhich limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe. Despite pleas from long-time users, this feature has not yet been implemented.

For users in WordPerfect's traditional markets, the inability to deal with complex character sets, such as Asian language scripts, can cause difficulty when working on documents containing those characters. However, later versions have provided better compliance with interface conventions, file compatibility, and even Word interface emulation. However, WordPerfect X4 was reported to be able to import IPA character set, and copy and paste works as long as the pastes into WP are done via Paste Special Unicode command. Publishing to PDF from WordPerfect embeds the WP-phonetic font together with the Unicode-compatible font. Reception. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

(June 2015) 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'. It cited WordPerfect's inclusion of mail merge, footnotes, and macros—all missing from WordStar—as well as 'virtually every. Feature that one ought to expect from a higher-priced program' including find-and-replace, bold and underline display, and automatic paragraph reflow. In December 1984 noted the application's built-in, ability to show bold, underline, and centered text, and extensive math capabilities. It criticized the quality of the spell checker and difficult tab settings, but concluded that 'its powerful capabilities far outweigh the problems mentioned'. In August 1985 called WordPerfect 'excellent'. It especially praised the clean, uncluttered screen and fast spell checker.

Noting the spell checker's size and the company's 'excellent track record of supporting its software', Antic in May 1988 concluded that 'If you want to own the most power-packed word processor available for the ST today, and can live with the relative complexity needed for harnessing this power, WordPerfect is what you've been waiting for.' See also. — repackaged and sold as Corel Home Office and Corel Office Suite by Corel, but using Ability and Microsoft's file formats instead of WordPerfect Office file formats. References. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

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discussion forum, free program download, third-party utilities and enhancements. Download sites. —New printer drivers, updates, and added features for WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 and 6.x (with pages on WP on the Mac and Linux).

All you need to know about WPDOS 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 on modern computers. out-of-print book on WP macros and templates (free legal download).