WordPerfect Office is an office suite developed by Corel Corporation.

As of April 2012, the latest version is WordPerfect Office X6 ( representing 16 ), which is available in four editions: Standard, Professional, Legal, and Home & Student.

WordPerfect MAIL is in trial version only.

To that end, text, rather than being incorporated into the chapter files, is stored in, loaded from, and saved back to, word processor files in the native formats of a variety of word processors, including WordPerfect, Wordstar, and early versions of Microsoft Word.

Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program developed by Borland and now sold by Corel, most often as part of Corel's WordPerfect Office suite.

It is known for producing software titles such as CorelDRAW, for having acquired Jasc Software, developers of Paint Shop Pro, in October 2004, and other major companies and products such as Ulead Systems and WordPerfect.

Corel contends that WordPerfect is the only viable alternative to Microsoft Office with sales 70 times more than Lotus ' SmartSuite.

WordPerfect for DOS is an example of a program that made heavy use of function keys.

WordPerfect Office is currently the most widely used alternative to Microsoft Office.

WordPerfect answered Microsoft ’ s move by acquiring Reference Software, and the direct descendant of Grammatik is still included with WordPerfect.

According to Microsoft and third-party documentation, Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA ) is a third default scripting engine and is part of the Windows installation and therefore present even if there is not an installation of Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, or other software packages which are VBA-programmable.

16-bit version of Corel WordPerfect Suite for Windows 3. 1x ( US version only ) was released on 1996-05-08.

Student and Teacher Edition includes WordPerfect X3, Quattro Pro X3, Presentations X3, Paradox, Presentations Graphics X3 ( raster features only ), WordPerfect MAIL trial version, Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, WordPerfect OfficeReady template.

In May 2005, Bloomba was licensed to Corel Corporation and re-released as WordPerfect Mail, a component of the WordPerfect Office family.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

Reports surfaced late in January 2006 that Apple's iWork had leapfrogged WordPerfect Office as the leading alternative to Microsoft Office.

This claim was soon debunked after industry analyst Joe Wilcox described JupiterResearch usage surveys that showed WordPerfect as the No. 2 office suite behind Microsoft Office in the consumer, small and medium businesses, and enterprise markets with a roughly 15 percent share in each market.

In April 2008 Corel released their WordPerfect Office X4 office suite containing the new X4 version of WordPerfect which includes support for PDF editing, OpenDocument and Office Open XML.

In March 2010 Corel released their WordPerfect Office X5 office suite, which contains the new X5 version of WordPerfect.

In April 2012 Corel released their WordPerfect Office X6 office suite, which contains the new X6 version of WordPerfect.

Corel had an interest in porting WordPerfect Office, its office suite, to Linux ( especially Corel Linux ).

Selected international versions of WordPerfect Office 2000 included Philips newest generation of FreeSpeech.

WordPerfect Law Office 2000 was released on 1999-12-20.

It includes WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, Peachtree First Accounting, Norton AntiVirus 2000, Corel Print Office 2000 Special Edition, Trellix 2, Online Merchant software, Stamps. com Internet PostageAmigo 2000, WordPerfect Office 2000 Software Developer's Kit, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Standard Edition includes WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, Netscape Navigator, WordPerfect Office 2000 user guide and clipart manual, Adobe Acrobat Reader, over 100 TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts, 1, 200 + clipart images, 20 + photos, 30-day free installation support.

New features include Workspace Manager, Compatibility Toolbars, Upgrade Installation for WordPerfect Office 10 and higher, WordPerfect OfficeReady Browser.

During 1993 Borland explored ties with WordPerfect as a possible way to form a suite of programs to rival Microsoft's nascent integration strategy.

, Microsoft still dominates the market for Windows business application software, although Quattro Pro and WordPerfect, which pre-dated the MS Office 4. 2 suite, are still both updated and sold.

Microsoft's domination of the Macintosh office suite software marketplace would be replicated five years later when ( following the release of Windows 95 ), Microsoft Office crushed its two main rivals in Windows software: the WordPerfect / Quattro Pro suite and the Lotus SmartSuite.

It was included in the sale of Borland products to WordPerfect, which were in turn resold as WordPerfect got into financial products, and at the current time of writing Paradox for Windows, WordPerfect and Quattro Pro for Windows are all owned by Corel and sold as part of their office suite.

It also bundled Paradox in the professional version of its WordPerfect Office suite.

The first mainstream appearance may have been in the Speller for WordPerfect 5. 2 for Windows, released 30 November 1992.

Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 was released in 1997-06-17.

Although Version 6 was released and some effort was made to unify the user interface between WordPerfect and QPW, the effort was far from complete.

Corel LinuxOS Second Edition was released in download, regular and deluxe editions, the latter of which bundled Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux.

Dozens of co-branded versions of the free Trellix Web software were released for various business partners, the most popular of which was included with Dell and HP computers and with Corel's WordPerfect with v 2. 0.

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

* WordPerfect for DOS Updated — 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 ).

* WordPerfect Mac — free program download, hundreds of third-party files and links, support and discussion group for the Macintosh program, both PPC and Intel and any Mac OS version, using the SheepShaver or Basilisk II emulators

But XyWrite remained a niche product, unable to compete for the business user against Word for Windows, WordPerfect for Windows, and Ami Pro, despite added versatility and customization potential.

It includes WordPerfect 5. 2, Quattro Pro 1. 0, Paradox 1. 0 for Windows.

It includes WordPerfect 6. 0, Paradox 4. 5, Quattro Pro 5. 0 for Windows.

It includes WordPerfect 6. 2, Quattro Pro 5. 6, Presentations 2. 1, Shell 4. 0c for DOS, Corel Editor 3. 1 for DOS, Stairway Software's ScreenExtender Special Edition and MergeMaster, 1, 000 fonts.

CD-ROM also includes WordPerfect 6. 2 for Windows 3. 1, 200 photos, 125 fonts and 10, 000 clipart images.

It includes 32-bit versions of Corel WordPerfect 7, Corel Quattro Pro 7 and Corel Presentations 7 ; Envoy 7, InfoCentral 7, Desktop Application Director, Corel Barista, QuickTasks, Paradox 7, CorelFLOW 3, CorelDRAW 6 ( illustration module ), Corel A to Z, Netscape Navigator, Quick View Plus, IBM VoiceType Control, 10, 000 clipart images, 200 photos, 59 instructional demos, Corel Screen Saver, Sidekick 95, Dashboard 95, Corel Time Line, 1, 000 fonts, Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary 3. 0, Stedman's Plus Spell Checker 4. 0, 20 QuickTasks ( 23 Corel WordPerfect 7 templates ) for health care, Template and style guides for research paper submissions, 20 medical master templates for Corel Presentations 7, 30 medical image watermarks, additional medical clipart and medical illustration images, Additional QuickConnect Internet links to National Library of Medicine, Corel Medical Series web page and Corel Photo Studio.