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Reviewer's Guide January 1999
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Table of Contents Corel Corporate
Profile____________________________________________________ 4
Learn about Corel Corporation's history and products.
Executive
Summary______________________________________________________ 5
Learn about WordPerfect® Office 2000, a high performance, low-cost
office suite that can enhance
productivity for both new and existing users.
Introducing the WordPerfect® Office 2000 Product
Line________________________________ 8
Learn about the main applications, supporting applications, utilities,
and software deployment tool s included
in WordPerfect Office 2000.
Dragon
NaturallySpeaking_______________________________________________ 17
Learn about Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the first commercially
available, large vocabulary, general purpose
continuous speech recognition system.
What's New in WordPerfect® Office
2000?______________________________________ 19
Learn about the new and enhanced features in WordPerfect Office 2000.
WordPerfect®: Award-Winning
Technology______________________________________ 28
Find industry awards won by WordPerfect technology.
Where Do I Get More
Information?___________________________________________ 30
Find contact information for media inquiries, reader contact
information, Corel's Year 2000 policy, and
technical support.
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Corel Corporate Profile Corel Corporation is an internationally
recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business
productivity applications. Since its foundation in 1985, Corel has
developed products known for excellence
and value that follow emerging trends in the software industry.
Committed to performance, compatibility,
and value. Corel develops products for Windows®, Macintosh®, UNIX®,
and Linux® platforms and
Java. Corel is renowned for comprehensive, competitively priced
products that have powerful core
applications and value-added utilities. Corel develops market-leading
products, such as the CorelDRAW
suite of graphics applications and the WordPerfect® Office of business
tools, while continuing to meet the
demands of the corporate, retail, and academic markets.
In 1992, Corel introduced the first graphics suite to coincide with
the launch of Microsoft® Windows 3.0.
CorelDRAW 3, a competitively priced, all-in-one graphics solution,
established the company as a wor ld leader
in graphics software. In 1995, CorelDRAW 6 was released as the first
major 32-bit application available for
Windows 95. Keeping its commitment to cross-platform solutions, Corel
released CorelDRAW 8 for Power
Macintosh® in 1998. The expanding CorelDRAW product line continues to
attract industry recognition,
winning more than 270 first-place international awards.
In 1996, Corel broadened its focus when it acquired the renowned
WordPerfect family of business
applications. Corel carefully reengineered this world-class software
into a market-leading line of powerful
productivity applications. In 1997, Corel partnered with Dragon
Systems, Inc. to deliver Corel® WordPerfect
Suite 8 with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a large vocabulary, general
purpose, continuous speech recognition
system. Continuing its commitment to performance, compatibility, and
value, Corel is focused on developing
office applications that are compatible with other off-the-shelf
office suites. In addition, Corel is continually
expanding to increase the presence of WordPerfect worldwide.
Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Corel's products ship in
over 17 languages through a netw ork of
more than 160 distributors in 70 countries. Corel maintains several
offices throughout Canada and the United
States. In addition Corel has offices in over 18 countries worldwide.
Corel's common stock trades on the
NASDAQ Stock Market K under the symbol COSFF and on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol
COS.
For more information, visit Corel's Web site at www. corel. com.
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Executive Summary Corel's mission is to focus its technology
leadership to deliver performance, compatibility, and va lue. As a
result, Corel is releasing WordPerfect® Office 2000, a
high-performance, compatible, affordable software
solution that is designed to enhance productivity for new and existing
users. WordPerfect Office 20 00
includes the following main applications: WordPerfect 9, Quattro® Pro
9, Corel Presentations 9,
CorelCENTRAL 9, and Paradox® 9. 1
Customer research indicated that most users are satisfied with the
existing features in the WordPer fect Suite.
However, many customers expressed the need for greater performance and
compatibility among existing
features. As a response to these needs and in keeping with our
mission, Corel focused on the follow ing three
areas for the WordPerfect Office 2000 release: performance,
compatibility, and value.
Performance WordPerfect Office 2000 is a high-performance software
solution that has a high level of speed, usability,
accessibility, integration, graphics capabilities, and Internet
features.
Speed refers to the time it takes for application functions, such as
opening files, saving files, and printing files,
to operate. Each main application in WordPerfect Office 2000 has been
enhanced to decrease the time it
takes to perform these basic functions. In addition, to increase
usability, existing features, such as
Scrapbook, file conversions, HTML publishing capabilities, and Make It
Fit , have greater functionality.
WordPerfect Office 2000 addresses and incorporates the demands made by
the United States Government ,
large-scale international corporations, and other worldwide sources,
to make software and hardware solutions
accessible to individuals of any age and ability. It includes standard
keyboard access, icons, soun d, display,
field labeling, and documentation to make software applications
accessible. In addition, Corel is committed to
working with other software and hardware vendors to ensure their
accessibility aids work with WordPerfect
Office 2000 components.
WordPerfect Office 2000 has increased integration between the main
applications. Common icons and dialog
boxes make it easy for users to access features across WordPerfect
Office 2000 applications. It also includes
common features, such as RealTime Preview, PerfectExpert, Scrapbook,
and PerfectPrint to reduce th e
time and cost of training.
WordPerfect Office 2000 has advanced graphics capabilities to help
users add images and drawings to their
documents, without learning a separate graphics application. In
addition to a presentation application, Corel
Presentations 9 is also a drawing application that lets users create
drawings, edit and create bitm ap images,
and convert vector images to bitmaps. It also includes a bitmap editor
that lets users create origi nal bitmap
images, edit bitmap images, refine small details by editing pixels,
apply special effects, and retouch
photographs. In addition, users can save Corel Presentations drawings
and images in various file formats,
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1 Paradox 9 is available only in select versions of WordPerfect Office
2000.
such as a WordPerfect graphic, Windows bitmap, JPG, and GIF. As a
result, users can import their dr awing
and images into other applications, such as WordPerfect, or publish
them to the World Wide Web.
Finally, WordPerfect Office 2000 includes easy-to-use Internet
features to help corporate users create,
convert, and publish World Wide Web documents. Corel's recent
partnership with Trellix Corporation gives
users the ability to create professional-looking Web documents quickly
and easily. 2 In addition, Corel's own
NetPerfect® technology, designed for IT managers, helps users create
and manage Intranet sites. Users can
publish to HTML automatically from almost any type of Windows
document. 3
Compatibility Corel is committed to delivering a complete office
solution focused on corporate compatibility. Corel's
definition of compatibility extends beyond file compatibility with
other office solutions. The primary goal
behind WordPerfect Office 2000 is to increase compatibility with open
standards, de facto standards, and
competing technologies, because many users expressed that their work
environments demand file excha nge
with internal or external contacts who do not use the same software
solutions. By achieving compatibility
with industry standards and third-party technologies, Corel gives
corporations the flexibility to create an ideal
software setup that includes the best technology available without
being locked into a single proprietary
solution.
WordPerfect Office 2000 supports open standards and programming
interfaces, such as HTML, ODBC,
Java, SGML, and XML. WordPerfect Office 2000 also supports ODMA
standards making it compatible
with document management applications, such as iManage, PC DOCS®,
SoftSolutions®, and
WORLDOX®. In addition, WordPerfect Office 2000 has increased
compatibility with third-party software
solutions, such as PeopleSoft and SAP. Users will also enjoy the
flexibility to view Portable Docum ent
Format (PDF) files with Adobe® Acrobat® Reader. In addition, Corel's
focus on compatibility with
Microsoft® Office and Lotus® SmartSuite® has resulted in increased
import and export capabilities for
WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, and Paradox 9. To
maintain backward file
compatibility, the file format for WordPerfect 9 remains the same as
WordPerfect 6.1, 7, and 8, letting users
continue to use their legacy files with the latest technology.
Value WordPerfect Office 2000 is an affordable software solution for
organizations that want an alternati ve to
Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite. To help reduce purchasing
costs, Corel offers flexible licensing
options and competitive upgrades. The Corel License Program is a
cost-effective solution that inclu des
benefits, such as backward licensing, multiplatform licensing,
multilingual licensing, home and lap top use, and
concurrent use. 4 WordPerfect Office 2000 lets organizations take
advantage of special upgrade pricing when
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2 Trellix® is available only in select versions of WordPerfect Office
2000.
3 NetPerfect is only available in select versions of WordPerfect
Office 2000.
4 Terms of the Corel License Program are subject to change without
notice.
they upgrade from previous versions of Corel WordPerfect Suite,
competing office suites, such as Microsoft
Office or Lotus SmartSuite, or standalone business applications.
In summary, WordPerfect Office 2000 is designed for corporate users
who work intensively with multi ple
applications, such as word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and
desktop database applications. It is also
an ideal upgrade for current WordPerfect Suite users who want to
obtain the latest productivity, graphics, and
Internet tools, while preserving their investment in training, legacy
files, and macros.
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Introducing the WordPerfect® Office 2000 Product Line Corel offers
specialized editions of WordPerfect® Office 2000 to cater to the needs
of corporate, academic,
legal, and home users. Below is a list of the WordPerfect Office 2000
editions and components.
Component
WordPerfect®
Office 2000
Academic Edition
WordPerfect®
Office 2000
Standard Edition
WordPerfect® Office
2000 Standard Edition
with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
WordPerfect®
Office 2000
Professional
Edition
WordPerfect®
Office 2000
Legal Edition
WordPerfect® 9 4 4 4 4 4
Quattro® Pro 9 4 4 4 4 4
Corel Presentations 9 4 4 4 4 4
CorelCENTRAL 9 4 4 4 4 4
WordPerfect Office 2000
SDK 3 3 3 3 3
Adobe® Acrobat®
Reader 4 4 4 4 4
Microsoft® VBA 4 4 4 4
Trellix® 2.x 4 4 4 4
Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
3.0
4 4 3
Corel Print Office 4 4 3
NetPerfect® 4 3
Paradox® 9 4 4
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Minimum System Requirements The following are minimum system
requirements for WordPerfect Office 2000 Standard Edition,
WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional Edition, WordPerfect Office 2000
Academic Edition, and
WordPerfect Office 2000 Legal Edition:
° Microsoft® Windows® 95, Microsoft Windows NT®, or Microsoft Windows
98
° 486 PC, 66MHz processor
° 16 MB RAM (32 MB are recommended)
° minimum 100 MB of hard disk space (295 MB required for a typical
installation)
° CD-ROM drive
° VGA monitor
° mouse or tablet
The following are minimum system requirements for WordPerfect Office
2000 Standard Edition with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking:
° Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, or Microsoft Windows
98
° minimum 133MHz Pentium® processor (200 MHZ recommended),
IBM-compatible PC
° 48 MB RAM for Microsoft Windows 95, 64 MB RAM for Microsoft Windows
NT 4.0 and Microsoft
Windows 98
° 260 MB of hard disk space (380 MB required for typical installation)
° CD-ROM Drive
° VGA Monitor
° mouse or tablet
° 16-bit sound card or built-in audio input quality equal or greater
than Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16.
Contact Dragon Systems or visit their Web site at www.
naturallyspeaking. com for a complete list of
supported hardware. Owners of IBM-MWWave-equipped systems should
contact Dragon Systems for a
compatibility information. Speaker required for sound output.
NOTE: Laptop users may require additional hardware.
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Main Applications
WordPerfect® 9 WordPerfect® 9 is a word-processing application that
lets users produce professional-looking documents,
such as newsletters, articles, reports, books, proposals, legal
pleadings, and brochures. WordPerfect 9 makes it
easy to add graphics, charts, and tables to any document. WordPerfect
9 continues to support reveal codes,
which gives users the flexibility to control every element of their
document. In addition, WordPerfect 9 has a
variety of enhanced Internet features which let users create one
document and publish it to paper, electronic
media, and the World Wide Web.
Quattro® Pro 9 Quattro® Pro 9 is a spreadsheet application that lets
users organize, analyze, report, manage, and share data.
Quattro Pro 9 turns general data into useful information. It helps
corporate users make informed business
decisions by providing the tools they need to produce tables,
financial forms, lists, databases, ch arts, and
reports. Quattro Pro 9 lets users perform simple tasks, such as
creating personal budgets, to more complex
tasks, such as preparing year-end financial statements, performing
complex data analyses, and creat ing reports
from external databases. Like WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9 lets users
create a single file, then pu blish it to
paper, electronic media, and the World Wide Web.
Corel Presentations 9 Corel Presentations 9 lets users create
high-quality slide shows and drawings. Corel Presentations provides
the tools users need to produce project proposals, interactive
reports, interactive demonstrations, multimedia
presentations, flyers, signs, and banners. Users can also create slide
show presentations for large monitors,
portable presentations, the Internet or intranet, overhead
transparencies, 35-mm slides, and printed color or
black-and-white copies of a slide show. In addition, Corel
Presentations 9 is a drawing application that lets
users create drawings, edit and create bitmap images, and convert
vector images to bitmaps, without learning
a separate application. It also includes a Bitmap Editor that lets
users create original bitmap images, edit
bitmap images, refine small details by editing pixels, apply special
effects, and retouch photograp hs.
CorelCENTRAL 9 CorelCENTRAL 9 is a personal information manager that
helps users make the most of their time. Users
can plan their daily schedule, write reminders, organize reference
information, and manage corporate contact
information. CorelCENTRAL lets users make effective use of their time
by helping them manage time, tasks,
and appointments. In addition, users can synchronize CorelCENTRAL with
their 3Com Palm Pilot.
CorelCENTRAL includes the following components: CorelCENTRAL Day
Planner, CorelCENTRAL
Calendar, CorelCENTRAL Memos, CorelCENTRAL Card File, and CorelCENTRAL
Address Book. In
addition, CorelCENTRAL is compatible with any Internet browser. As a
result, when users click on a
hyperlink in any CorelCENTRAL component, it automatically opens the
default Internet browser.
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Paradox® 9 Paradox® 9 is an easy-to-use relational database
application that helps users organize data into meaningful
information. The application lets users store and retrieve data in a
variety of ways, and lets them create
professional forms, charts, and reports to display the information.
Paradox 9 can run as a standalone system
on one computer, or as a multiuser system on a network.
Paradox 9 lets novice database users create a database quickly and
easily. It contains many new Experts that
guide users through the creation of tables, forms, reports, charts,
and mailing labels. Users can publish data in
various file formats, which makes Paradox 9 compatible with other
business applications and with
applications in WordPerfect Office 2000. Enhanced Web form design and
table and report publishing
capabilities make it easy for users to share their data over the World
Wide Web. The functionality of Paradox
9 can be expanded to meet the increasing demands and needs of users as
they become familiar with the
application.
For developers, Paradox 9 includes ObjectPAL®, an object-based,
event-driven development language that is
used to create customized database applications. Developers will also
find the new Visual Database Designer
and Table Restructure dialog box deliver more power and speed.
Supporting Applications and Utilities
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader Adobe® Acrobat® Reader lets users view,
navigate, and print PDFs across multiple platforms. WordPerfect
users will also enjoy the flexibility to save their documents as .PDF
files.
WordPerfect® Office 2000 Reference Center The WordPerfect Office 2000
Reference Center contains the full text of the WordPerfect Office 2000
manuals in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (. PDF) to help
users find the information they need
quickly and easily. Users who prefer reading from a paper format can
print from the Adobe Acrobat R eader.
Desktop Application Director The Desktop Application Director (DAD)
give users quick and easy access to the core applications in
WordPerfect Office 2000 from the Windows taskbar, eliminating the need
to create shortcuts. Users can
customize the DAD to include any application or executable file they
access on a regular basis, reducing the
need to navigate through the Windows Start menu. In addition, the DAD
takes advantage of the Window s
interface by embedding itself directly into the Windows taskbar.
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Ask the PerfectExpert WordPerfect Office 2000 includes Ask the
PerfectExpert, which is designed to help users find answe rs to
their questions without searching through manuals or online Help. Ask
the PerfectExpert includes a natural
language interface that lets users ask questions using their own
words. 6
PerfectExpert The PerfectExpert includes the best features from
QuickTasks, templates, Coaches, and online Help. The
PerfectExpert lets users create complex documents quickly, using
professionally designed templates. For
example, the PerfectExpert can guide users through a detailed project,
such as creating a resume, or it can
guide them through a smaller task, such as inserting a clipart image.
The PerfectExpert provides users with
several professionally designed templates that can be changed in any
number of ways to suit their n eeds.
Fonts, Clipart, and Photos WordPerfect Office 2000 offers an extensive
collection of fonts, images, and photos to help users enhance
their documents, including the following:
° more than 1,000 TrueType® and Type 1 fonts. When users install
WordPerfect Office 2000 using the
Typical Installation, a default set of fonts is installed
automatically. Users can install additional fonts from
the appropriate CD-ROM. Fonts are grouped by style and appearance to
help users find the font they need
quickly and easily.
° more than 12,000 clipart images and symbols. WordPerfect Office 2000
helps users communicate their
ideas and make their documents more interesting with clipart images
and symbols. WordPerfect Office
2000 includes a full-color Libraries Catalog to help users find the
clipart image or symbol they need quickly
and easily. WordPerfect Office 2000 also lets users use the Scrapbook
to search for clipart images or
symbols by keyword or file name. The Scrapbook also lets users view
large or small thumbnails of cl ipart
images and symbols.
° more than 200 photos. WordPerfect Office 2000 lets users add photos
to their documents and
presentations.
These items can be installed onto a network, which lets multiple users
access fonts, clipart, and photos
without installing them on individual desktop computers. 7
Corel® Versions® Corel® Versions® lets users manage revisions to
WordPerfect Office 2000 files. It helps users keep track of
multiple copies of the same file, without using different file names.
Corel Versions lets users
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6 Ask the PerfectExpert recognizes select languages only.
7 Each user who is given access to these items must be a licensed
user.
° archive previous versions of a file
° retrieve and make changes to any archived version of a file
° compare archived files to see the differences between them
° attach meaningful information to each archived version that can be
viewed in the document history
window
° track multiple users of a common file
° delete any archived file from the history list
° protect a specific archived version of a file from being discarded
from the history list
Bitstream® Font Navigator Bitstream® Font Navigator 3.0.1 is a font
manager developed by Bitstream Inc., a company widely known
for its expertise in font technology. Bitstream Font Navigator 3.0.1
offers a quick and easy way to find and
install fonts, organize fonts into manageable groups, and view and
print font samples.
WordPerfect® Office 2000 Software Developer's Kit The WordPerfect
Office 2000 Software Developer's Kit (SDK) is a powerful set of tools
that lets developers
customize applications for commercial or business use. The SDK is
available in most versions of
WordPerfect Office 2000 at no additional cost. It is a self-extracting
installation that installs t he following
components:
° online Help for the SDK
° OLE automation samples
° PerfectScript tools
° tools and utilities, including code generation wizards for
third-party add-ons to WordPerfect 9, Quattro
Pro 9, and Corel Presentations 9; utilities to monitor events inside
WordPerfect 9 and Corel Presentations
9; and a file format parsing tool
Web Publishing Tools WordPerfect Office 2000 includes two Internet
tools to help Webmasters and end users create Web sites:
Trellix 2. x and NetPerfect®. Trellix 2. x is designed to help users
create professional-looking and navigable
Web documents, without specialized knowledge of HTML or graphic
design. Corel's own NetPerfect
technology is designed to automate and simplify Intranet document
publishing, regardless of the format of
the original document.
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Trellix® 2.x Trellix 2. x is a desktop productivity application that
lets Webmasters delegate content ownership to specific
individuals, reducing the workload for Webmasters and increasing the
availability of accurate infor mation
throughout a corporation. WordPerfect users can create, convert,
maintain, and update content for the World
Wide Web or a corporate intranet without requiring specialized
knowledge of HTML and graphic design .
Trellix 2. x is a Web site creation tool with a friendly user
interface that makes it easy for users to see how a
Web site will look once it is published to the World Wide Web.
Trellix 2. x has powerful linking capabilities that make it easy to
produce and maintain navigable, multipage,
hyperlinked information. It converts standard paper documents to an
optimal online viewing format,
complete with navigation buttons, to help users navigate through
documents quickly and easily. Trel lix lets
users specify how to divide a document based on styles, fonts, page
breaks, etc. In addition, Trellix 2.x
automates many of the technical and time-consuming steps that must be
performed when Web content is
updated or reformatted.
NetPerfect® 8 NetPerfect® is designed to help IT managers create and
manage Intranet sites through an automatic HTML
publishing system. NetPerfect publishes almost any type of Windows®
document, including WordPerfect,
Quattro Pro, CorelDRAW®, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, .TXT, .RTF,
and HTML files. NetPerfect
publishes documents as HTML through pure HTML conversion (licensed
from Verity), or by using the
native application's print engine with Corel's Java technology, Corel
Barista. As a result, users can view
documents in any standard Web browser.
Users can automate NetPerfect to update documents at any preprogrammed
time or when the source
documents are modified. NetPerfect logs publishing results to a text
log. Since IT managers can set up
NetPerfect to publish documents to an Intranet automatically, end
users can continue to save their
documents in their native file formats.
Corel Application Management Tools WordPerfect Office 2000 includes
Corel Application Management Tools, which are designed specifically
for IT managers and system administrators to simplify network
deployment and management. Corel
Application Management Tools take full advantage of the Windows
Registry, system policies, and facilities of
installing, managing, and distributing WordPerfect Office 2000.
Corel Distribute Corel Distribute is a software distribution
application that lets IT managers automate installation from a
network to individual workstations. With Corel Distribute, system
administrators can determine which users
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8 NetPerfect is available in select versions of WordPerfect Office
2000.
can install, how users can install, when users install, and what users
install. If users have diffe rent software
needs, system administrators can create separate distribution profiles
to match individual needs.
Corel Settings Editor Corel Settings Editor gives IT managers complete
control of WordPerfect Office 2000 application
deployment. It lets IT managers change settings for WordPerfect Office
2000 in the Windows 95/ 98 or
Windows NT® Registry. Corel Settings Editor lets system administrators
perform the following tasks:
° create system policies to provide a standard setup throughout the
organization
° edit application settings that the Windows Registry sees as binary
data
° change the Windows Registry on multiple workstations
° create user-specific and computer-specific settings
Corel Custom File Administrator The Corel Custom File Administrator
lets users add graphics, templates, macros, or other custom fil es to
any
network installation.
Scripting Languages WordPerfect Office 2000 includes two scripting
languages: Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications 9 and
PerfectScript. Corporations can continue to use PerfectScript to
develop macros and scripts or they can
develop new macros and scripts with Microsoft Visual Basic for
Applications. Either way, existing scripts and
macros remain fully functional.
Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications Microsoft Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA) is the leading application customization
technology, used by
more than three million developers worldwide. It lets developers build
custom business solutions by
automating and integrating off-the-shelf software applications to meet
specific customer needs. VBA
integrates rich development capabilities with host applications.
Developers who use VBA to extend
WordPerfect Office 2000 applications can benefit from the familiar
Visual Basic programming language, an
integrated Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment, and fast
runtime performance. Developers
can also benefit from Microsoft Forms Package and support for ActiveX
controls to create rich user
interfaces, provide easy access to the Windows® API and the underlying
file system, add connectivity to
corporate data, and integrate with other Component Object Model-based
software.
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9 Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications will not impact any existing
PerfectScript macros or script s.
PerfectScript PerfectScript is a macro system and scripting language
that was developed specifically for WordPerfect Suite
applications to help corporations create macros, recordings, and
scripts. It lets developers record, compile,
and play macros, as well as build and edit dialog boxes for macro
scripts.
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Dragon NaturallySpeaking 3. x, the
award-winning, large vocabulary, general purpose continuous speech
recognition system, lets users dictate at a rate of 160 words or more
per minute. Users can speak u sing their
natural voice, and their words are transcribed immediately onto their
screen and into their WordPerfect
document. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is integrated into WordPerfect. 10
Users can access and activate Dragon
NaturallySpeaking features from menus and buttons in WordPerfect.
WordPerfect Office 2000 with Dragon NaturallySpeaking includes the
following features:
Recognition ac curacy: With reg ular use and train ing, us ers can
achieve a high level of rec ognition ac curacy. Users
can speak nat urally, se lect and change text by voice or key board,
with out im pacting rec og n ition per formance.
Continuous speech: Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets us ers speak at a nat
ural pace, with out paus ing between words.
Voice com mands: Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice com mands in clude a
full set of gen eral pur pose and ed it ing
commands that are easy to use and re member such as Scratch That, De
lete That, and Bold That.
Correct and re vise now or later: Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets us ers
choose the dic tating and ed it ing method most
natural to them. They can cor rect er rors as they oc cur, or they can
dic tate freely and re vise er rors later.
Multimedia Quick Tour and on line Help: The Mul ti me dia Quick Tour
and on line Help fea tures pro vide
demonstrations on how to dic tate and per form ba sic tasks with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Users can start
learning the prod uct with the Quick Tour. The on line Help lets us
ers ac cess in structions and mul timedia
examples while run ning the pro gram.
Audio Setup wiz ard: The Au dio Setup wiz ard helps us ers ad just and
op timize au dio set tings.
General train ing: Users can train Dragon NaturallySpeaking to adapt
to their man ner of speak ing. The first
train ing ses sion is usu ally suf ficient; how ever, us ers can
choose shorter sup plemental training ses sions at any
time to fine-tune the per formance of the prod uct.
Large vo cabulary: Dragon NaturallySpeaking con tains an ac tive vo
cabulary of 30,000 com mon words. The
backup dic tionary con tains over 230,000 words. Dragon
NaturallySpeaking trans fers words from the backup
dictionary to the ac tive vo cabulary when it de tects that these
words are be ing used in a user's doc ument.
Vocabulary tools: Dragon NaturallySpeaking includes two vo cabulary
tools: the Vo cabulary Builder and the
Vocabulary Ed itor. Users can ad just the ac tive vo cabulary and word
us age in formation for a par ticular sub ject
area, view and man age the ac tive vo cab u lary, and find and add new
words con tained in the back up dic tionary
to the ac tive vo cabulary.
Back Up and Re store: Users can save a copy of their cur rent speech
files, or they can re store a copy from their last
backup. Dragon NaturallySpeaking con tains an au tomatic backup fea
ture.
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10 Dragon NaturallySpeaking is available only in select versions of
WordPerfect Office 2000.
Multiple user files: Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets us ers cre ate a va
riety of speech files to re flect dif ferent users
and en vironments.
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What's New in WordPerfect® Office 2000? WordPerfect® Office 2000 is a
powerful office suite that includes applications and tools users
expect to get
professional results quickly and easily. WordPerfect Office 2000 has
many new and enhanced features to help
users increase their productivity.
Common Features WordPerfect Office 2000 has some common features that
help reduce the learning curve and enhance
productivity. Common icons and dialog boxes make it easy for users to
access features across WordPerfect
Office 2000 applications. Common features, such as Install-As-You-Go,
RealTime Preview, Scrapbook,
and PerfectPrint can help reduce the time and cost of training for new
and existing WordPerfect use rs.
Install-As-You-Go: Install-As-You-Go lets us ers min imize the hard
disk space re quired by WordPerfect Of fice
2000 ap plications. Users can avoid wast ing valu able hard disk space
on ap plications they do not use by
installing only the ap plications and util ities they need, as they
need them. If us ers se lect a non-installed item,
the ap plication au tomatically asks if they would like to in stall
it.
WordPerfect 9, Quattro® Pro 9, and Corel Presentations share the
following:
Enhanced Scrap book: The Scrap book gives us ers fast, easy ac cess to
fold ers of clipart im ages or ganized by
category. Users can search and pre view im ages, then drag and drop or
copy and paste the im ages to draw ings,
charts, slide shows, spread sheets, let ters, pa pers, or re ports.
The Scrap book has been com pletely re de signed
for WordPerfect Of fice 2000. The en hanced Scrap book lets us ers cre
ate their own cat egories and view
automatic up dates of thumb nails. It also lets us ers pre view
sounds, mov ies, and bitmap im ages. Users can add
items from their hard drive, CD-ROM, or net work drive. The Scrap book
also lets us ers copy and pa ste
images from the World Wide Web and im port items from Corel
WordPerfect Suite 7 or Corel WordPerfect
Suite 8 clipart stor age. The Scrap book saves users time be cause it
helps them find the im ages they need
quickly and eas ily.
Enhanced shapes: WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, and Corel Pre
sentations 9 con tain over 100 new shapes. Users
can choose from ba sic shapes, ar rows, stars, ban ners, and
flowcharting tools. As a re sult, us ers can add
interesting graphic de tails to their doc uments, spread sheets, slide
shows, or draw ings with out learn ing an
additional graphics application.
RealTime Pre view: RealTime Pre view lets us ers pre view a for
matting change be fore ap ply ing it to their
document. Users can scroll through and pre view sev eral dif ferent
for matting op tions, such as fonts, lines,
tables, bor ders, and shad ing. RealTime Pre view saves us ers valu
able time by re ducing the need to undo and
redo un satisfactory for mat ting changes.
WordPerfect 9, Corel Presentations, and CorelCENTRAL share the
following:
PerfectPrint: PerfectPrint en hances the print ing ca pabilities of
WordPerfect 9, Corel Pre sentations 9, and
CorelCENTRAL 9. PerfectPrint lets us ers cre ate books, the ses, leg
islative rules, large plead ings, post ers, and
booklets. Users can en large or re duce doc uments to fit any pa per
size with out chang ing the format of the
page. PerfectPrint also lets us ers print on both sides of the page,
re gardless of what printer t hey are us ing.
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DeskJet us ers can print re turn ad dresses closer to the edge of the
en velope with the Print Up side Down
feature. PerfectPrint helps us ers cre ate more pro fessional-looking
doc uments and saves them time and money
by elim i nat ing the need to use spe cialized print shops for their
print ing needs.
WordPerfect® 9
Performance and Productivity Features Autoscroll tool: The autoscroll
tool lets us ers scroll through a long doc ument quickly, with out us
ing the ar row
keys or scroll bars. The scroll ing speed in creases if us ers move
the ar row fur ther away from t he autoscroll
tool and de creases if they move the ar row closer to the autoscroll
tool. The autoscroll tool gives us ers the
functionality of the Microsoft® IntelliMouse with their reg ular
mouse.
Navigation Con trols: WordPerfect Of fice 2000 has the fol lowing new
nav igation con trols:
° Browse: Browse, lo cated on the ver tical scroll bar, lets us ers
browse through their doc ument by page , ta ble,
box, foot note, endnote, head ing, edit po sition, and com ment.
° Previous and Next: Pre vious and Next, lo cated on the ver ti cal
scroll bar on ei ther side of the Browse but ton,
lets us ers scroll through their doc ument based on what they have se
lected with the Browse but ton. For
example, if Browse by foot note is se lected, the Nav igation but tons
let us ers move to the p revious or next
footnote in their doc ument.
° Back and For ward: Back and For ward, lo cated on the main hor
izontal scroll bar, lets us ers move the in ser tion
point to and from its pre vi ous po sition, sim ilar to the Back and
For ward but tons in a Web browser.
Print Pre view: Even though WordPerfect cre ates doc uments in a What
You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
environment, many us ers still re quested a sep arate print pre view
op tion. WordPerfect 9 let s us ers view their
documents as a sin gle page or as dou ble pages. Print Pre view is
fully com patible with RealTime Pre view.
Users can ex periment with for matting op tions, such as fonts, lines,
ta bles, bor ders, and shading, with out
applying it to their doc ument. Print Pre view is also fully editable;
there fore, us ers do not have to switch back
to reg ular view to make changes to their doc ument. Print Pre view is
ex tremely help ful for us ers who need to
lay out their doc uments in a short time frame.
Block Make It Fit: Block Make It Fit is an en hancement of Make It
Fit. It lets users fit blocks or sec tions of
their doc u ments into a spec ified di mension or num ber of pages,
with out af fecting other ar eas where fit ting
specifications are dif ferent.
Writing tools for multiple languages: WordPerfect 9 now includes
writing tools for more than 15 languages. Users
can spell check, hyphenate, look up synonyms, and check their grammar.
Euro sym bol: WordPerfect 9 in cludes the Euro sym bol in the list of
char acters and sym bols to help meet the
needs of mul tinational us ers, in crease the Eu ropean user base, and
re main up-to-date with the Eu ropean
Union de velopments.
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Compatibility and Integration Features Font Em bedding: Bitstream
TrueDoc lets us ers view or print WordPerfect 9 doc u ments from any
com puter or
printer, even if the de vices do not have the same fonts in stalled.
Bitstream TrueDoc re cords the shape of the
characters (re gardless of the font for mat or com plexity of the char
acter shape) and em beds these
representations into the doc ument. In ad dition, Bitstream TrueDoc
pro vides true WYSIWYG technology,
which lets us ers dis trib ute elec tronic doc uments that look the
same to them and to their readers. This
technology is designed to increase file com patibility in a multiuser
en vi ron ment.
Same file for mat: WordPerfect 9 con tinues to use the same file for
mat as WordPerfect 6.1, Corel WordPerfect 7,
and Corel WordPerfect 8. Using the same file for mat en sures back
ward com patibility by let ti ng us ers open
and use doc uments that were cre ated with pre vi ous ver sions of
WordPerfect.
Enhanced file con version ca pabilities: By keep ing the same file for
mat, Corel has been able to fo cus on en hancing file
compatibility with other word pro cessing ap plications, such as Lo
tus® Ami Pro® and Microsoft® Word.
WordPerfect us ers can now con vert files to and from WordPerfect in
na tive file for mat, with out im porting or
exporting the doc ument. WordPerfect 9 also lets us ers open and save
Lo tus and Microsoft files in their na tive
file for mats.
XML Ca pabilities: XML (eX tensible Markup Lan guage) pro vides a plat
form and ap plication-independent
environment for de fining doc ument ar chitecture and doc ument
markup. WordPerfect 9 lets users cre ate,
validate, and save XML doc uments in a fa miliar WYSIWYG en vironment.
A struc tured tree view, shown in a
separate win dow, pro vides an easy-to-read lay out of the full doc
ument. WordPerfect au tomat ically in serts and
maintains tag pairs to cre ate XML files. WordPerfect pro vides an ed
iting en vironment that i ncludes wiz ards,
automatic el ement in sertion, and au tomatic gen eration of doc u
ments, which makes doc u ment cre ation quick
and easy. Users can cus tomize menus, toolbars, and key board map ping
to cre ate their own work i ng
environment. WordPerfect 9 in corporates the Doc ument Type Def
inition (DTD), lay out in f ormation, and
mapping files into a sin gle WordPerfect tem plate.
SGML Ed i tor: WordPerfect 9 lets us ers cre ate SGML doc u ments in a
fa miliar WordPerfect en vironment.
WordPerfect 9 lets us ers edit, markup text, and val idate tags in
SGML doc u ments. Users can em ploy
WordPerfect writ ing tools, such as Spell Check and QuickCorrect. In
ad dition, us ers can hide SGML codes
in the doc ument win dow and use WordPerfect text for matting to make
SGML doc u ments eas ier to read on
screen. The SGML Ed itor also includes the following:
° Structured views of the document, providing a WYSIWYG view on one
side of the screen and a tree view
on the other.
° Enhanced graphics, which let users import and export markups with
the SGML document.
° Document compare features.
° Automatic mapping for International Standards Organization (ISO)
characters during the DTD compilin g
process to map multinational characters to the appropriate characters
in the SGML Editor. Manual
character mapping does not fall within the ISO character sets.
° Enhanced importing and exporting capabilities.
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Graphics Capabilities TextArt: TextArt lets us ers trans form words
into de signs. Users can use mul tiple lines of text and ro tation
options to cre ate in teresting lo gos, dec orations, or signs. The
TextArt Gal lery lets us e rs choose ei ther 2D
TextArt Styles (de fault) or 3D TextArt styles. As a re sult, us ers
can add de signs to their doc uments, with out
learning an ad ditional ap plication.
Quattro® Pro 9
Performance and Productivity Features Customizable toolbars, menus,
and short cut keys: Quattro Pro 9 lets us ers cus tom ize the menu
struc ture, short cut keys,
and toolbars to help to in crease pro ductivity. Users can also set
Quattro Pro 9 to use the Quattro Pro 7,
Quattro Pro 8, or Microsoft® Ex cel in ter face. Using this fea ture
gives us ers a fa miliar work en vironment and
helps re duce train ing costs.
Page-Break view: Quattro Pro 9 in cludes a Page-Break view that shows
the doc ument with page breaks and
excludes white space that is shown in the WYSIWYG page view.
Page-Break view lets us ers ad just the page
breaks be fore print ing, which helps them op timize their lay out be
fore print ing and re duce printing er rors.
Formula markers: Quattro Pro 9 marks cells that contain for mu las
with a small blue tri angle in the left cor ner of
the cell, so users can view which cells con tain for mu las quickly.
Users can also val i date and understand the
spreadsheet and for mula struc ture as the spread sheet grows in com
plexity. For mula mark ers are also help ful
when us ing the Workgroups fea ture, be cause it helps us ers make
sense of an other user's spread sheet.
Smaller file size: Quattro Pro 9 has an en hanced file for mat that de
creases the size of files. A smaller file size lets
users save large amounts of data on less disk space, and de creases
the time it takes to trans fer files over a
network or the World Wide Web than in pre vious ver sions of Quattro
Pro.
Enhanced Go To di a log box: The Go To di alog box pro vides us ers
with ad ditional op tions for find ing data, such as
formulas, val ues, named cells, and com ments. These ad ditional op
tions are de signed to help users find
information in large spread sheets quickly and eas ily.
Auto Row Height: Quattro Pro 9 lets user resize a row to its de fault
height by dou ble-clicking on a row in dica tor.
Auto Row Height helps us ers main tain a con sis tent look when cus
tomizing and for matting their spread sheet.
Custom nu meric for matting: Quattro Pro has in creased op tions for
cus tom nu meric for mats, in cluding font
attributes, cell at trib utes, and con ditional for matting. Cus tom
nu meric for matting lets us ers cre ate a
professional-looking and easy-to-read spread sheet.
Auto To tal: Auto To tal au tomatically in serts to tals when us ers
in sert a to tal la bel above or next to tab ular data.
Workgroups: Quattro Pro 9 lets us ers dis tribute a Note book to other
us ers in a workgroup so they can read it
and make ed its di rectly in the Note book. Workgroups include the
following features:
° Notebook Share and Com pare: Note book Share lets us ers share their
Note book with other us ers in a workgroup
by let ting them open and edit the same Note book si multaneously.
Note book Com pare lets us ers com pare
the in dividual Note books to see the dif ferences be tween them.
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° Notebook Merge and Re view: Notebook Merge and Re view lets us ers
merge mul tiple ver sions of a Note book
into a sin gle file. The Note book re view lets the au thor re view
the Note book's his tory. It also lets the
author re view each change and de cide to ac cept or re ject it as nec
es sary.
Forms di alog box: Quattro Pro 9 makes it eas ier to man age large
amounts of data by giv ing us ers the abil ity to
cre ate forms for their data. The Forms di alog box lets us ers per
form ba sic func tions, such as add ing, de leting,
viewing, and ed iting in formation in a spread sheet.
Formula tips: Quattro Pro 9 helps us ers when us ing com plex for
mulas. For mula tips prompt us ers for the next
variable so they do not have to mem orize vari ables when cre ating
multivariable for mu las.
Dynamic Cross Tab Re ports: The Dy namic Cross Tab Re ports fea ture
lets us ers sum marize large amounts of data in
a cross-tabulated ta ble (known as PivotTable® in Microsoft Ex cel).
This fea ture lets us ers re t abulate (or
pivot) Dy namic Cross Tab Re ports and move col umn and row fields
within the ta ble to rec ognize data. As a
result, us ers can drill down or nav igate through data de tails in
suc cessive lay ers to get a mul tidimensional view
of their data. Dy namic Cross Tab Re ports is a pow erful and flex
ible data anal ysis tool that helps us ers turn
large amounts of data into mean ingful in formation.
View com ments: Quattro Pro 9 lets us ers dis play com ments on
screen. Users can move com ments to a dif fer ent
location by drag ging and drop ping.
View for mu las: Quattro Pro 9 lets us ers dis play the for mula
rather than the for mula re sult in in dividual cells.
SpeedFunctions: SpeedFunctions let us ers in sert fre quently used
func tions di rectly from the toolbar, with out
searching through menus and di alog boxes.
SpeedFormat: SpeedFormat lets us ers ap ply a pre defined for mat to a
range of cells to help them cre ate
professional-looking spread sheets quickly and eas ily. Users can cre
ate their own cus tomized for mats based on
a se ries of op tions, such as nu meric for mat, font face, shad ing,
text color, align ment, line drawing, col umn
heading, and col umn to tal. When us ers add or de lete rows or col
umns, Quattro Pro 9 au tomat ically ad justs
the for mat.
Natural lan guages for matting: Quattro Pro 9 makes it easy to cre ate
and read for mu las be cause us ers can create
and read for mu las based on names rather than cell ad dresses.
Euro sym bol: Quattro Pro 9 in cludes the Euro sym bol in the list of
char acters and sym bols to help meet the
needs of multinational us ers, in crease the Eu ropean user base, and
re main up-to-date with Eu ropean Un ion
developments.
WordPerfect® Char acters di a log box: Quattro Pro 9 in cludes a
WordPerfect Char acters di alog box, which lets us ers
insert WordPerfect char ac ters, such as the Euro sym bol, into cells.
This fea ture in creases compatibility
between the ap plications in WordPerfect Of fice 2000.
Compatibility Features Increased Note book size: Quattro Pro 9 has a
larger Note book size to han dle the de mands of large data
requirements. When im porting data from a da tabase us ing Object
Database Connectivity (ODBC) or OnLine
Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools, Quattro Pro 9 sup ports ap
proximately 1,000,000 rows, 18,278 col umns,
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and 18,278 sheets. (Pre vious ver sions sup ported only 8,192 rows,
256 col umns, and 256 sheets). The
increased Note book size gives us ers greater flex ibility when work
ing with Microsoft Ex cel and Lotus®
1-2-3® files in Quattro Pro 9.
Compatibility set tings: Quattro Pro 9 has en hanced com pat i bil ity
set tings to en sure file com patibility with
Microsoft Ex cel 97, Lo tus 1-2-3, and ear lier ver sions of Quattro
Pro. Quattro Pro 9 lets user share
spreadsheets eas ily with Microsoft Ex cel or Lo tus 1-2-3 us ers by
ac cept ing both file for mats. Users can also
set their de fault file type as Microsoft Ex cel (. XLS) for mat so
files save au tomatically as Microsoft files.
Internet Features Publish to HTML Ex pert: The Pub lish to HTML Ex
pert lets us ers cre ate HTML pages from the Note book. It
includes op tions that let us ers con vert charts to im ages, add ti
tles, and cre ate head ers. Publishing to HTML
helps us ers com municate and share data and in formation through a
cor porate intranet site o r the World Wide
Web.
Web Query tool: The Web Query tool lets users create and run Web que
ries and im port data from the World
Wide Web, such as cur rency ex change rates or price lists from cor
porate intranet sites. Users c an set que ries
to be up dated man ually or au tomatically at user-specified in
tervals.
Drag and Drop from Netscape® Internet brows ers: Quattro Pro 9 lets us
ers drag and drop con tent from the World
Wide Web into a Note book as an Internet link, us ing a Netscape®
Internet browser. Users can up da te the
links when opened or at spe cific time in tervals.
Corel Presentations 9 Redesigned toolbars: Corel Pre sentations 9 has
re designed toolbars to give us ers quick and easy ac cess to the
features they use fre quently. Many fea tures that could only be ac
cessed through menus in pre vi ous ver sions
of Corel Pre sentations can now be ac cessed though the Prop erty Bar.
Enhanced im port and ex port ca pabilities: Corel Pre sentations has
en hanced im port and ex port ca pabilities to let us ers
convert files to and from other pre sentation applications. Corel
Presentations 9 lets users imp ort files from
Lotus Freelance® and lets users import and export files from
Microsoft® PowerPoint®.
Image tools: Corel Pre sentations 9 in cludes new im age tools, such
as Bright ness, Con trast, Wa termark, Coloring
Book, Out line All, and Trans parent, that let us ers ap ply spe cial
ef fects to their slides and draw ings. These
image tools are based on award-winning CorelDRAW tech nol ogy and are
de signed to help us ers add
graphics to their slides and draw ings with out learn ing a sep arate
graph ics ap plication.
Redesigned Internet Pub lisher: The Internet Pub lisher has been re de
signed to give us ers step-by-step in structions
to pub lish a slide show or draw ing to the World Wide Web. The
Internet Pub lisher gives us ers gr eater con trol
over fea tures, such as page setup and lay out, but ton styles, and
pub lish lo ca tion.
CorelCENTRAL 9 CorelCENTRAL has been completely redesigned for this
release. It is a simple, easy-to-use Personal
Information Manager (PIM) that requires fewer system resources and
offers greater functionality tha n
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CorelCENTRAL 8. CorelCENTRAL 9 is designed to help users manage their
time, tasks, and appointments.
CorelCENTRAL 9 includes the following applications:
CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner: CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner lets us ers see
the day's events and tasks when they
start their com puter. When CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner is not in use,
it is au tomatically hid den, which
saves desk top space. CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner is in te grated with
CorelCENTRAL Cal endar; events and
tasks us ers sched ule in CorelCENTRAL Cal endar also ap pear in
CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner.
CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner also lets us ers keep track of their daily
prog ress by mark ing tasks as fin ished.
CorelCENTRAL Cal en dar: CorelCENTRAL Cal endar lets us ers plan their
ac tivities days, weeks, months, or years
in ad vance to help them or ganize their time ef fi ciently and help
them re member im portant days and pro jects.
CorelCENTRAL Cal endar and CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner work to gether.
If us ers change a task or ev ent
in CorelCENTRAL Day Plan ner, it changes au tomatically in
CorelCENTRAL Cal en dar.
CorelCENTRAL Memos: CorelCENTRAL Memos let us ers write notes to re
mind them selves of ap pointments,
special dates, and things to do. Users can file notes in dif ferent
cat egories. For ex ample, us ers can cre ate a
category for a pro ject and file all the notes about that pro ject in
that cat e gory.
CorelCENTRAL Card File: CorelCENTRAL Card File lets us ers keep track
of per sonal in formation, in ventories,
reference ma terial, and any thing else they want to or ganize.
CorelCENTRAL Card File is a ver sa tile
organizational tool, be cause it lets us ers de sign and cus tomize
card files to store the in formation they need to
record. In ad dition, us ers can cre ate as many card files as they
like, and they can or ga nize the cards in a card
file into groups. For ex ample, us ers can cre ate a card file of of
fice sup plies and cre ate a group within that card
file called "sta tionery" for sta tionery sup plies. CorelCENTRAL Card
File lets us ers in sert a link to cre ate a
hyperlink to any email ad dress or World Wide Web ad dress.
CorelCENTRAL Ad dress Book: CorelCENTRAL Ad dress Book is a phone book
and in formation cen ter for
personal and busi ness con tacts. CorelCENTRAL Ad dress Book can store
names, ad dresses, email ad dresses,
phone num bers, and World Wide Web ad dresses. Like CorelCENTRAL Card
File, us ers can create a
hyperlink to any email ad dress or World Wide Web ad dress.
CorelCENTRAL 9 also includes the following new and enhanced features:
Enhanced Ad dress Book con ver sion: The Ad dress Book from pre vious
ver sions of CorelCENTRAL up dates
automatically when us ers in stall CorelCENTRAL 9. As a re sult, us
ers do not need to trans fer in formation
from their old Ad dress Book to the new CorelCENTRAL Ad dress Book.
Alarm: CorelCENTRAL in cludes an alarm that sounds when CorelCENTRAL
is open or closed. The Alarm
can also be used as a timer.
Subtasks: Users can cre ate subtasks for any task or event in
CorelCENTRAL Cal endar. For ex ample, us ers can
cre ate an event for a meet ing, then add subtasks, such as pre pare
slide show and pho tocopy handouts.
CorelCENTRAL au tomatically re cords the subtasks un der the event.
PalmPilot syn chronization: CorelCENTRAL 9 lets us ers syn chronize
CorelCENTRAL Cal en dar,
CorelCENTRAL Ad dress Book, and CorelCENTRAL Memos with a 3Com
PalmPilot.
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Paradox® 9
Performance and Productivity Features Welcome Screen: The Wel come
Screen ap pears when us ers launch Par adox® 9 for the first time.
This screen
contains all the items new us ers need to be come ac quainted with Par
adox ap plications, in clud ing New
Database, Open Da tabase, Da tabase Tem plates, Par adox Ex perts, and
the on line tu to rial.
Online tu torial: The online tutorial takes new us ers through eight
les sons to fa miliarize them with the con cepts
they need to learn to cre ate a da tabase from scratch.
Visual Da tabase De signer: The Vi sual Da tabase De signer helps us
ers un derstand the ba sics of da tabase de sign, and
lets them cre ate and mod ify ta bles and ta ble links. Users can
print the ta bles, fields, and re lationships.
Enhanced di alog boxes: Paradox 9 has en hanced di alog boxes to re
flect the stan dard ap pearance and con tent of
Windows® 95 and the other com ponents of WordPerfect Of fice 2000.
Vertical Da tabase Tem plates: Paradox 9 in cludes a set of Ver tical
Da tabase Tem plates de signed for busi ness,
corporate, and per sonal da tabases. These tem plates let us ers cre
ate new da ta bases quickly and eas ily. The
templates let new us ers build a com plete da tabase for stan dard
busi ness pro cesses. Cor po rate us ers can use
templates de signed for hu man re sources, ex pense re ports, event
plan ning sys tems, and pro ject man agement.
Business us ers can use tem plates de signed for con tact man agement,
job cost ing, and or der entry and
inventory. For per sonal us ers, there are tem plates for an ad dress
book, checkbook, and home assets.
Enhanced ac cessibility: Par adox 9 in cludes the Win dows® High Con
trast color scheme, key board short cuts for all
features, and stan dard user in ter face con trols to make third-party
ac cessibility tools com patible with Corel
applications.
Dockable and Cus tomizable toolbar: Par adox 9 lets us ers dock
toolbars in the lo ca tion of their choice. Users can also
customize the toolbar by add ing and re moving tools.
Table Struc ture dialog box: Paradox 9 in cludes a new tabbed di alog
box, de signed to make the Ta ble Struc ture
dialog box eas ier to use. Each tab rep resents a dif ferent ta ble
prop erty.
SQL Query Ex pert: The Struc tured Query Lan guage (SQL) Query Ex pert
lets us ers build an SQL query based on
one or many ta bles in their da tabase, which dis plays the re sults
in an an swer ta ble.
Find Du plicate Ex pert: The Find Du pli cate Ex pert cre ates a query
that finds re cords with du pli cate field val ues in a
table and dis plays the re sults in an an swer ta ble.
Visual Query Builder (VQB): The Vi sual Query Builder lets us ers cre
ate and ex ecute SQL que ries with out typ ing a
line of code. Users can cre ate a full range of que ries, as well as
view and edit the re sult ing SQL code as it
appears in an ed i tor win dow.
Enhanced Borland® Da tabase En gine: Par adox 9 will in clude the new
est ver sion of the Borland® Da tabase
Engine, ver sion 5.01.
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Compatibility Features Backward com patibility: Par adox 9 is fully
back ward com patible, which means that files cre ated in ear lier ver
sions
of the ap plication can be used in the Par adox 9 en vi ron ment. For
ex ample, us ers can load Par adox 7 ta bles
into Par adox 9 with out los ing data.
Enhanced com pat i bil ity: Paradox 9 has en hanced com patibility to
let us ers con nect to other desk top da tabase
applications, such as Microsoft® Ac cess 97, Microsoft® FoxPro®,
dBase, and all other ODBC-compliant
database ap plications.
Enhanced im port and ex port ca pabilities: Paradox 9 has en hanced im
port and ex port ca pabilities to let us ers im port
and ex port files from Microsoft Ex cel, Lo tus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro,
and WordPerfect (ex port only).
Support for RTF file for mat: Paradox 9 lets us ers pub lish re ports
in the RTF file for mat, so that Par adox files can be
viewed in any ap plication that sup ports the RTF file for mat, such
as WordPerfect.
Support for JPEG file for mats: Paradox 9 lets us ers store JPEG files
in a ta ble.
Supports Microsoft® IntelliMouse: Users who have a Microsoft
IntelliMouse can use it to scroll and zoom in a
table, form, or re port.
Integration Capabilities Publish re ports to WordPerfect®: Users can
pub lish Par adox 9 re ports to WordPerfect 9.
Integrated com mon toolbar: The Par adox 9 toolbar is com mon to the
other core ap plications in WordPerfect
Office 2000 Pro fessional Edi tion.
Spell Checker: Par adox 9 lets us ers per form spell checks on data in
edit and memo fields that ap pear in ta bles
and forms.
Enhanced Copy and Paste func tion al ity: Users can copy and paste
data from a Par adox 9 ta ble to a Quattro Pro
spreadsheet.
Java Internet Features Web Form De signer: The Web Form De signer lets
us ers cre ate forms by us ing em bedded JavaBeans with out
writing code. Java Ap plets em bed ded in HTML files help us ers cre
ate plat form-independent Web forms.
This fea ture is WYSIWYG, so us ers do not need to pre view their work
in a Web browser.
Paradox JDBC driver: A JDBC driver is part of a Java de velopment kit.
It de fines an ap plication pro gramming
interface for Java for stan dard SQL ac cess to da tabases from Java
pro grams. The Par adox JDBC driver
provides us ers with a di rect con nection to the Borland Da tabase En
gine.
Dynamic HTML d: The HTML Ex pert lets us ers pub lish up-to-date data
in Par adox ta bles and re ports to a Web
page. This fea ture is com pliant with stan dard Web serv ers that sup
port Java servlets.
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WordPerfect®: Award-Winning Technology Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8
° Recommended Product for Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8 with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking, rated 36 out
of 40 points, PC Shopping, Germany, September 1998
° Editor's Choice Award for "most intuitive word processor," Windows
News Magazine , France, September
1998
° Reader's Choice Award for Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8, Law Office
Computing, United States,
August/ September 1998
° WIN 100 Award for Corel® WordPerfect® 8, Windows Magazine , United
States, June 1998
° Reader's Choice Award for Corel® WordPerfect® 8, PC Welt, Germany,
June 1998
° Best Presentation, Retail Vision Awards, United Kingdom, April 1998
° Best Vendor, Retail Vision Awards , United Kingdom, April 1998
° Best Software Award for Corel® WordPerfect® 8 with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking, Retail Vision Awards,
United Kingdom, April 1998
° Best Retail Positioning and Strategy for Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8
with Dragon NaturallySpeaking,
Retail Vision Awards, United States, April 1998
° Best Product Reference Software for Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8 with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking,
Retail Vision Awards, United States, April 1998
° WIN List award, Windows Magazine, United States, January 1998
° First Place Technolawyer Award in the word processing category, The
Technolawyer Windows Magazine ,
United States, January 1998
° Eric Underdog Award, Computer Shopper, United States, January 1998
° Editor's Choice Award in the word processing software category, PC
Advisor, United States, November
1997
° Editor's Choice Award, PC Advisor, United Kingdom, November 1997
° Recommended Product, PC Shopping, Germany, September 1997
° Best Product in the Productivity and Reference category, Retail
Vision Awards , United States
° Best New Product Software, Retail Vision Awards , United States
° Best Retail Strategy, Retail Vision Awards, United States
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Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 7
° 1998 Reader's Interest Award for Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 7 Legal
Edition, Law Tech. Product News,
United States, January 1998
° Winner of the Product Preference Survey, Government Computer News,
United States, July 1997
° Best of Byte Award for Corel® Presentations 7 in the Presentations
Graphics Category, Byte Magazine,
United States, March 1997
° Lab Reviewer's Choice Award, Government Computer News, United
States, February 1997
° Product of the Year 1996 in the Business Suite Category, Windows
Guide Schweiz, Switzerland
° Best Buy Award, PC Direct, United Kingdom, January 1997
° Award for saving WordPerfect®, The Fresno Bee, United States, 1996
° Best Business Software, The Fresno Bee, United States, 1996
° Channel Choice Award, Computer Reseller News, South Africa, 1996
° Runner-up for the Hottest Product 1996 in the Productivity Software
category, Computer Retail Week,
United States
° Winner of the Best Business Productivity Suite for Corel®
WordPerfect® Office Professional 7, PC
Magazine, United Kingdom, December 1996
° Best of Show, (Spain), PC Plus Spain, Spain, November 1996
° Best of Show, (Spain), Byte Magazine, Spain, November 1996
° Winner, Presentations Graphics Program for Corel® Presentations 7,
Software Digest, United States,
November 1996
° Best Software Award, Singapore COMDEX , Singapore, September 1996
° Best New Product in the Personal Software Category, Government
Computer News, United States, April 1996
Corel® WordPerfect® 3.5 for Macintosh®
° Editor's Choice Award, , United Kingdom, November 1997
° Editor's Choice 1997 in the Word Processor Category (tied with
Microsoft® Word) Mac Today, United
States
° 1996 Editor's Choice Award, Home Office Computing, United States,
1996
° World Class Award in the Word Processor Category, Australian
Macworld , Australia, November 1996
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Where Do I Get More Information? Corel Corporate Headquarters
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Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA
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For general media inquiries , contact Corel's media relations
department at
email: media@ corel. ca.
For reader contact information, contact Corel's customer service
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telephone: 1-800-77-COREL.
For information about Corel's Year 2000 policy, visit our Web site at
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