Corel WordPerfect Office - 12 Reviewer’s Guide

Reviewer’s Guide

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Contents

Introducing WordPerfect Office 12 4

Key features and enhancements 5

What’s in the Box? 16

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The powerful, feature-rich office alternative .................4

Main applications ...............................16

Supporting applications and utilities .....................17

Minimum system requirements ........................18

WordPerfect Office 12 — a note on installation ...............18

A WordPerfect product to meet your specific needs .............19

WPO 12 - the cost-effective alternative 20

Retail pricing comparison .......................21

Licensing ................................21

Corel Transactional Licensing (CTL) ......................21

Corel Contractual Licensing (CCL).......................21

Software Maintenance ............................21

Upgrade eligibility ...........................22

Corel and Microsoft: a comparison of licensing programs ..........23

Corel corporate profile 24

WordPerfect Office 12 3

Introducing WordPerfect® Office 12

The powerful, feature-rich office alternative

WordPerfect® Office 12 is a feature-rich office productivity suite that offers powerful
functionality at a competitive price. Complete with word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation and address book applications, it is an excellent alternative to higher priced
office productivity suites.

With WordPerfect Office 12, you get a high level of compatibility that streamlines
workflow by allowing you to share files with users working with other office suites,
particularly Microsoft® Office. Much of the development effort for this release has focused
on suite-wide enhancements to compatibility that make it the world’s leading alternative to
Microsoft Office.

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WordPerfect Office 12 translates into great value for businesses and organizations of any
size. Boost office productivity with new tools, such as the Workspace Manager or
Compatibility toolbars, that provide easy, one-click access to features and functionality.

With support for open standards, such as XML, WordPerfect Office 12 also features the
ability to generate PDF documents without purchasing Adobe® Acrobat® or other
PDF-generating tools. An outstanding value, WordPerfect Office 12 offers competitive
retail pricing and flexible licensing options.

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Key features and enhancements

WordPerfect® Office 12 is a feature-rich, value-priced, highly compatible office productivity
suite. Much of the development effort for WordPerfect Office 12 has focused on suite-wide
enhancements to compatibility that make it the world’s leading alternative to Microsoft
Office. Complete with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and address book
applications, WordPerfect Office 12 translates into great value for businesses and
organizations of any size.

New Workspace Manager: The new Workspace Manager lets you easily choose between
legacy WordPerfect, WordPerfect 12, WordPerfect Legal and Microsoft Office workspace
modes. If you recently switched from Microsoft Office, you may not be familiar with the
keystrokes, menus and toolbars of WordPerfect Office 12 applications. While there are
many similarities between the two suites, you may find it easier to simulate the Microsoft
Word workspace until you are more accustomed to working in WordPerfect.

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The New Workspace Manager lets you easily choose between legacy WordPerfect, WordPerfect 12,

WordPerfect Legal and Microsoft Office workspace modes.

The unique capability to simulate other office applications makes switching to WordPerfect
Office 12 easy and dramatically reduces training costs and ramp-up time—all significant
barriers to switching from Microsoft Office to other office productivity products.

In addition to offering Microsoft® Excel, Word and Microsoft® PowerPoint® style
workspaces, WordPerfect Office 12 also includes one-click access to the classic WordPerfect

5.1 style workspace, the WordPerfect legal workspace and Lotus® 1-2-3® style workspace.
Your options will vary depending on the application.

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Longtime WordPerfect users will remember the classic blue screen from version 5.1.

The Microsoft Office workspace puts WordPerfect Office 12 features, including toolbars
and menu items, exactly where you would find the Microsoft Office equivalent. It also
applies Microsoft Office keyboard shortcuts to WordPerfect Office 12 features—allowing
you to quickly access the tools you need. This inherent flexibility is particularly beneficial if
you want to create your own keystrokes and templates to suit your work environment or
workflow.

WordPerfect 12 features the unique ability to simulate workspaces, such as Microsoft Word.

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New WordPerfect® OfficeReady: New to WordPerfect Office 12 is the WordPerfect

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OfficeReady Browser. With this feature, you can easily organize, preview and access your
WordPerfect Office 12 templates in one easy-to-use browser. The WordPerfect OfficeReady
browser ships with 40 additional WordPerfect Office 12 templates and you can easily find
many more by using the browser to find WordPerfect Office 12 templates online.

The New WordPerfect OfficeReady Browser lets you access, organize and preview your WordPerfect

Office 12 templates.

Give it a Try

1 Insert WordPerfect Office CD 2 into the CD drive.

2 Click WordPerfect OfficeReady.

3 Follow the instructions in the Setup wizard.

Enhanced compatibility with Microsoft® Office: Based on customer feedback, Corel has

made significant compatibility enhancements to WordPerfect Office 12 so you can share
information with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint easier than
ever before. In addition to the option of workspace switching, WordPerfect Office 12
preserves the formatting of your Microsoft Office files and also includes a conversion
utility to assist you in batch converting large numbers of Microsoft Word or legacy
WordPerfect files, as well as other file formats, to WordPerfect 12.

Give it a Try

• In WordPerfect 12, press the Conversion Utility button on the Compatibility

toolbar.

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New Compatibility toolbars: Now you can quickly publish your documents to PDF,
HTML, XML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint with the click
of a button. WordPerfect Office 12 now has a new toolbar that captures all the common
file publishing formats in one easy location.

The New Compatibility toolbars provide easy, one-click access to popular document publishing

formats.

Give it a Try

1 In WordPerfect 12 or Quattro Pro 12, click View  Toolbars.

2 From the Toolbars list, enable the appropriate check box:

• In WordPerfect 12, choose Microsoft Word Compatibility.

• In Quattro Pro 12, choose Microsoft Excel Compatibility.

Note: In Presentations 12, compatibility options are accessible from the default toolbar.

Microsoft® Outlook® integration: WordPerfect 12 allows you to use a Microsoft

Outlook® address book in WordPerfect. For example, you can choose an individual name
from the Outlook contact list when creating routing slips for document tracking or creating
envelopes and labels. You can also use Outlook for mail merging documents.

Give it a Try

1 In WordPerfect 12, click Tools  Settings.

2 Click Environment.

3 In the Environment Settings dialog box, click the General tab.

4 Enable the Use Outlook address book/contact list check box.

Support for scripting languages: WordPerfect Office 12 supports three scripting

languages—PerfectScript™, Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications and ObjectPAL
(Object Paradox Application Language). PerfectScript is a macro system and scripting
language developed specifically for WordPerfect Office applications, to help users create
macros, recordings and scripts. ObjectPAL is a powerful, object-based, event-driven, visual
programming language tightly integrated with Paradox®. Microsoft Visual Basic for
Applications lets developers build custom business solutions by automating and integrating
off-the-shelf software applications to meet specific customer needs. Scripts and macros

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