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WordPerfect Office X4 review
Reviews Among the advantages of WordPerfect over Word is the Reveal Codes option, which lets people manage document formatting granularly. Longtime users of Corel WordPerfect — particularly professionals — will appreciate the company's attempts to play...
[April 17, 2008, 14:25]
WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition review
Reviews WordPerfect X3 is the first office suite that lets you import an Acrobat file, edit its contents and resave the file as a PDF or another format. Another helpful new tool gives you the ability to strip formatting (again via a right-click menu) from...
[January 18, 2006, 8:55]
Office XP WordPerfect 5.x Converter Security Patch: KB824938
Downloads This update addresses a flaw in a converter file used to translate existing documents using WordPerfect file formats to the Microsoft Word file format. This update provides you with the latest version of the Microsoft Office XP WordPerfect 5.x...
[September 20, 2007, 8:31]
Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
Downloads In addition to Word document files (.doc), you can also open files saved in the following formats: Rich Text Format (.rtf), text (.txt), Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml), WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd), WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd), Works 6.0...
[November 19, 2007, 15:05]
How Open Is The New Office?
News The standard -- already supported in WordPerfect and StarOffice -- allows documents to be stored and edited in XML format. Absolutely," those files would be usable in, say, WordPerfect Office if the product supported XSD, he said.
[December 16, 2002, 11:50]
Inside Office 2007's Files review
Reviews However, Office 2007 software will not let you save work in either the Open Document Format used by OpenOffice or in the formats from Corel WordPerfect. Or what if you use a third-party application, such as Corel WordPerfect 12 or the Web-based...
[January 30, 2007, 14:07]
Alternatives To Microsoft Office review
Reviews Corel WordPerfect Office X3 offers interface improvements and one-click PDF, HTML and XML publishing. For example, Corel WordPerfect is the tool of choice for writers and lawyers who need more control over long documents.
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
StarOffice 6.0 Beta review
Reviews However, unlike Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite or Corel WordPerfect Office, the StarOffice beta doesn't come with a database. If you're looking for a low-cost (as opposed to no-cost) suite that translates Microsoft's file formats more...
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
Microsoft .Net For Linux?
News Microsoft covenants to Corel that neither Microsoft nor any of its Affiliates shall sue Corel based on any claim that current or past versions of Corel Office Professional or Corel WordPerfect Suite (and successor Corel WordPerfect office...
[October 13, 2000, 9:25]
Rivals Line Up To Take On Office
News But the field has attracted fresh competition lately, with Sun Microsystems and Corel pushing their respective StarOffice and WordPerfect franchises as low-cost alternatives to Microsoft. Evermore said in a statement that EIOffice uses a single...
[May 19, 2004, 8:55]
Open Source Debate Brought To A Close - For Now
Talkback In the largest trial, Bristol city council installed Sun's StarOffice on 5,500 desktops last July, and it has since been moving staff across from Corel WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 (previously used by 60% of staff) and Microsoft Office (40%), a...
[November 20, 2006, 22:59]
Ability Office 2002 review
Reviews And while you're there, grab the other necessary (and free) files that let you install import/export filters for Word and WordPerfect files and the multi-language spelling checker and thesaurus. It includes a host of features, including tables, in...
[May 8, 2002, 15:41]
US Report: Can Government Handle Starr Report Web Traffic?
News If it were to be posted as an Adobe Acrobat or WordPerfect file and made available for download, it could put major pressure on servers, forcing the government's Web gurus to ensure the system could handle many simultaneous downloads of the document.
[September 11, 1998, 8:44]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews However, unlike Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite and Corel WordPerfect Office, StarOffice doesn't ship with a real database. For most text tasks, Writer meets Word and WordPerfect head-on. For example, a 540-page document that chews up 1.2MB in...
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
Novell To Support Microsoft Office Documents
News Corel, the maker of the WordPerfect Office suite, said that it intends to support both ODF and Microsoft's Office Open XML format in future versions. Novell said on Monday that it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival...
[December 5, 2006, 9:36]
UK Firm Targets Microsoft's Home Turf
News Ability Office faces competition from Corel's WordPerfect, Sun Microsystems' StarOffice package and OpenOffice, its free, open-source sibling. Ability Office applications also include tools for saving files in Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format.
[November 3, 2003, 10:10]
Microsoft Rival Aims At New Markets
News PC Suite competes with a growing number of Microsoft Office alternatives, led by Sun Microsystems' StarOffice; its free, open-source sibling OpenOffice.org; and perennial contender WordPerfect. The company on Wednesday released a new version of its...
[September 9, 2004, 10:15]
Bug Mars OpenOffice's Big Day
News WordPerfect files can be imported. There are more-sophisticated options for export of files into Portable Document Format (PDF), a file format Microsoft plans to support with its upcoming Office 12. Its file format, in contrast to the proprietary...
[October 14, 2005, 9:50]
Ballmer: Longhorn Is 'disruptive - But Worth It'
Talkback WordPerfect Office and Lotus Smart Suite are (or were) 90% compatible and much cheaper, but (almost) no businesses use those either. What version of MS Office lets you convert your document to pdf or Flash?
[July 14, 2004, 13:19]
OpenOffice 2.0 Released
News WordPerfect files can be imported. There are more-sophisticated options for export of files into Portable Document Format. But perhaps more significant, OpenOffice.org uses the standardised OpenDocument format that stands in stark contrast to...
[October 20, 2005, 15:50]
