Corel WordPerfect Office

Corel WordPerfect Office

Developer(s)	Corel Corporation
Initial release	1994
Stable release	X5 (15) / March 2010
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietary
Website	http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1151523326841

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.

Components

The major components of home and school-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Home and Student Edition are:

• WordPerfect X5, word processor (.wpd-files)
• Quattro Pro X5, spreadsheet (.qpw-files)
• Presentations X5, slide show creation (.shw-files)
• Lightning, digital notebook

Home and business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Standard Edition adds:

• Nuance PaperPort 12 SE, document manager
• Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail manager

Business-oriented WordPerfect Office X5 - Professional Edition adds:

• Paradox, database 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 manager
• Trellix, web design software
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking, speech recognition (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, OpenDocument 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

• WordPerfect
• List of office suites
• Comparison of office suites
• Office Open XML software
• OpenDocument software

External links

• Corel WordPerfect Office X5