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What was the first version of WordPerfect Law Office?

The first, the Voice Powered Edition, includes Dragon Naturally Speaking 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.

Why is WordPerfect so popular among lawyers?

A related factor is that WordPerfect Corporation was particularly responsive to feature requests from the legal profession, incorporating many features particularly useful to that niche market; those features have been continued in subsequent versions, usually directly accessible with key combinations. Novell v. Microsoft antitrust lawsuit

What was the DOS version of WordPerfect?

An interesting feature of the DOS 5.0 version was its Type-Through feature. It allowed a user with certain compatible printers to use WordPerfect as a conventional typewriter. This functionality was removed in the DOS 5.1 version.

Is WordPerfect ST the best seller on the IBM PC?

June 18, 2018. ^ a b c Pearlman, Gregg (May 1988). "WordPerfect ST / Proving why it's the IBM PC best seller". Antic. Vol. 7, no. 1. ^ McNeill, Dan (December 1987).

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What is latest version of WordPerfect?

WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect OfficeDeveloper(s)Corel CorporationStable release2020 (20) / May 5, 2020Written inC++Operating systemWindows 7 and laterTypeOffice suite5 more rows

Does anyone still use WordPerfect?

Regardless, WordPerfect for Windows continues to be a major player, especially in the legal market, where it's the only app that offers both advanced legal-formatting features and a document management system that doesn't rely on Microsoft's networking software.

What is the difference between Microsoft Word and WordPerfect?

Better collaborative editing: Word features a track changes feature with visual cues that clearly display edits. In contrast, WordPerfect only allows users to compare differences between documents. Templates: Word offers extensive templates that deliver pre-formatted documents.

Is WordPerfect hard to learn?

Overall: It has been very simple and easy to use. Key stroke shortcuts seem to carry over from some of the word software from year (I mean YEARS) ago. It's very easy to use, especially if you're just starting out using office software. Pros: This is what I like MOST about WordPerfect software.

Do attorneys still use WordPerfect?

Lawyers. Not all law offices use Wordperfect, but it's more popular there than anywhere else. Wordperfect was a staple in law offices for decades and that momentum was hard for Microsoft Word to overcome. It doesn't hurt that Wordperfect has bundled functionality for legal documents.

Will WordPerfect run on Windows 10?

According to Corel all versions of wordperfect that were released for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and of course now for Windows 10 are compatible with Windows 10.

What word processors do lawyers use?

Microsoft Office comes with a suite of software that comes preinstalled on most lawyers computer. Microsoft Word for one, has been adopted as the word processor of choice by many in the legal industry over the years.

What was before WordPerfect?

My first computer word processing software was AppleWorks, on an Apple ][+, in the mid-1980s. Then (surprise) WordPerfect for DOS 5.0, then WP for Windows, then Word for Windows, then OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice at home and still Word at work.

Is WordPerfect free?

Is WordPerfect Office free? No, it is not a free program.

Who was the owner of WordPerfect?

Bruce Wayne Bastian (born March 23, 1948) is an American computer programmer, businessperson, philanthropist, and social activist. He co-founded the WordPerfect Software Company with Alan Ashton in 1978 (originally known as Satellite Software International and then changed to WordPerfect Corporation in 1982).

Which is Better word or WordPerfect?

Due to its immense popularity, Word is the preferred choice for most schools, businesses and companies, forcing most WordPerfect users to either relent or to save files into an acceptable Word format before submitting. The only exception may be in the legal profession, where WordPerfect remains the top choice.

When was Wordperfect ported to Amiga?

In 1987, WordPerfect was ported to the Amiga 1000 and was upgraded through version 4.1 on the Amiga 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 Workbench or CLI, 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.

When did Wordperfect sell to Novell?

WordPerfect Corporation was sold to Novell in 1994, which then sold the product to Corel in 1996. Corel has made regular releases to the product since then, often in the form of office suites under the WordPerfect name that include the Quattro Pro spreadsheet, the Presentations slides formatter, and other applications.

What is the difference between HTML and Wordperfect?

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. <strong>text</strong>, whereas WordPerfect formatting codes consist of hexadecimal values.

When did Novell file an antitrust lawsuit?

In November 2004, Novell filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for alleged anti-competitive behavior (such as tying Word to sales of Windows) that Novell claims led to loss of WordPerfect market share. That lawsuit, after several delays, was dismissed in July 2012. Novell filed an appeal against the judgment in November 2012.

How much of the word processing market was 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.

When did Wordperfect 4.2 come out?

WordPerfect 4.0 was released in 1984. WordPerfect 4.2, released in 1986 , introduced automatic paragraph numbering, which was important to law offices, and automatic numbering and placement of footnotes and endnotes that were important both to law offices and academics.

Is Dataperfect for DOS copyrighted?

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.

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Wordperfect For Dos

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In 1979, Brigham Young University graduate student Bruce Bastian and computer science professor Alan Ashton created word processing software for a Data General minicomputer system owned by the city of Orem, Utah. Bastian and Ashton retained ownership of the software that they created. They then founded Satellite …
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Wordperfect For Windows

  • History
    WordPerfect was late in coming to market with a Windows version. WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows, introduced in 1991, had to be installed from DOS and was largely unpopular due to serious stability issues.The first mature version, WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows was released in Novembe…
  • WordPerfect Office Suite
    WordPerfect became part of an office suite when the company entered into a co-licensing agreement with Borland Software Corporation in 1993. The offerings were marketed as Borland Office, containing Windows versions of WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Borland Paradox, and a LAN-b…
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Wordperfect Suite and Wordperfect Office

  • WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office is an office suite developed by Corel Corporation. It originates from Borland Software Corporation's Borland Office, released in 1993 to compete against Microsoft Office and AppleWorks. Borland's suite bundled three key applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro and Paradox. Borland then sold the suite to Novellin 1994, which led t…
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"Classic Mode"

  • Corel added "Classic Mode" in WordPerfect 11. Although this displays the "classic" cyan Courier 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. The men…
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Version History

  • Summary
    WordPerfect 9 and newer is bundled with the WordPerfect Office Suite and cannot be purchased separately. In addition, versions of WordPerfect have also been available for Apricot, Tandy 2000, TI Professional, Victor 9000, and Zenith Z-100systems. Known versions for IBM System/370incl…
  • Unix
    Known versions for Sun include WordPerfect 6.0, requiring SunOS or Solaris2, year of release unknown. At one time or another, WordPerfect was available on around 30 flavors of Unix, including AT&T, NCR, SCO Xenix, Microport Unix, DEC Ultrix, Pyramid Tech Unix, Tru64, IBM AIX, …
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Unicode and Asian Language Editing

  • WordPerfect lacks support for Unicode, which 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 document…
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Reception

  • PC Magazine 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-replac…
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See Also

Further Reading

  1. Foster, Ed (December 28, 2007). "How Did WordPerfect Go Wrong?". Infoworld.
  2. Karsmakers, Richard (February 16, 1988). "Word Perfect. Word Perfect?". st-news.com.
  3. Peterson, W. E. "Pete" (2012). Almost perfect : how a bunch of regular guys built WordPerfect Corporation. Must Read Summaries. ISBN 9782806235107.
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Abacus Payment Exchange

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The first one we want to talk about here in some detail is Abacus Payment Exchange. What is this? This is, essentially, introducing electronic payment processing, and that is credit card as well as eCheck or ACH transactions right into Amicus Attorney. The idea is it's all about getting paid quickly, and also, it's also a…
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Document Management Updates

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Security Profiles

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Email Enhancements

  • We're going to move right along here. The next section is email enhancements. This is we're pretty excited about too, the updated look and feel for your messages, really, we've improved how you can go and resize, resizing the entire thing, not just the note or the body itself. We've also made it easier to add events to your emails. We've also improved some task filtering options. Let's quickl…
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