WordPerfect
Sign in to saveWordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Corel. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- Wpo-logo.svg
- Software.logo_size
- 230px
- Software.screenshot
- WordPerfectX3.png
- Software.caption
- A document being edited in WordPerfect X3
- Software.author
- Brigham Young UniversitySatellite Software International (SSI)
- Software.developer
- Corel Corporation
- Software.operating system
- Windows 7 and later
- Software.platform
- IA-32
- Software.genre
- Office suite
- Software.license
- Proprietary
- Company.name
- WordPerfect Corporation
- Company.logo
- WordPerfect Corporation wordmark.svg
- Company.founded
- in Orem, Utah
- Company.fate
- Sold to Novell; most assets in turn sold to Corel in 1996
- Company.industry
- Software
- Software.name
- Corel WordPerfect Office
- Software.title
- Corel WordPerfect Office
- Software.released
- 1994
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Article
48 sectionsContents
- WordPerfect for DOS
- Key characteristics
- Streaming code architecture
- Styles and style libraries
- Reveal codes
- Macro languages
- Support for European languages
- Function keys
- Printer drivers
- WordPerfect Library/Office utilities
- LetterPerfect
- DataPerfect
- PlanPerfect
- WordPerfect for Windows
- History
- WordPerfect Bundles and Suite
- Novell buys WordPerfect Company
- Microsoft vs Novell
- Market share
- Application integration and middleware
- Faithful customers
- ''Novell v. Microsoft'' antitrust lawsuit
- Corel buys WordPerfect from Novell
- Corel WordPerfect
- WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office
- Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 and Office 7 Professional
- Corel WordPerfect Office 2000
- Latest version
- Quattro Pro
- Presentations
- WordPerfect Lightning
- Other desktop applications
- "Classic Mode"
- Version history
- Summary
- Unix
- Macintosh
- Atari ST
- Amiga
- Linux
- iOS
- Unicode and Asian language editing
- Reception
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
- Download sites
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Corel. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar.
It was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young University for use on a Data General minicomputer in the late 1970s. The authors retained the rights to the program, forming the Utah-based Satellite Software International (SSI) in 1979 to sell it; the program first came to market under the name SSI*WP in March 1980. It then moved to the MS-DOS operating system in 1982, by which time the name WordPerfect was in use, and several greatly updated versions quickly followed. The application's feature list was considerably more advanced than its main competition WordStar. Satellite Software International changed its name to WordPerfect Corporation in 1985.