Corel Wordperfect Office 12 Standard Upgrade

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Product Features

• Powerful word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications
• Compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF, HTML, XML, and more
• Intuitive Publish to PDF feature; no need for additional PDF software
• Maximizes efficiency; versatile and easy to use

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001H9L5M
• Item model number: WP12ENGPCUG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 29, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,765 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WordPerfect Office 12 is a feature-rich, compatible 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 suites. Compatible with popular file formats such as Microsoft Office, PDF, HTML, and XML, it lets you share files created in WordPerfect Office with users of other office products. The intuitive Publish-to-PDF feature eliminates the need for additional, costly PDF software. Versatile and easy to use, this feature-packed suite translates into great value!

Features:

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 developed in either language from earlier versions of WordPerfect Office remain fully functional.

PerfectExpert: PerfectExpert lets you create complex documents quickly, using professionally designed templates that you can customize. For example, PerfectExpert can guide you through a detailed project, such as creating a resume, or it can guide you through a smaller task, such as inserting a clipart image. WordPerfect Office 12 includes a number of templates. For even more selection, a variety of other templates are available for download from the Web.

New WordPerfect Wireless Office: Powered by ZIM, the new WordPerfect Wireless Office Suite gets you mobile with three wireless products that give you anytime, anywhere access to Microsoft Outlook e-mail, calendar, reminders, and more. ZIM SMS Office enables two-way communication ensuring you stay on top of constantly changing information whether you, or others, are on the go. ZIM SMS Mail is a wireless e-mail offering that works with any POP3 e-mail account, regardless of what e-mail client software you use. ZIM SMS Chat is an exciting software application that enables instant two-way chats between computer and mobile phone users via SMS text messaging.

Outstanding support for open standards: WordPerfect 12, Quattro Pro 12, and Presentations 12 all feature XML and HTML publishing capabilities. In addition, WordPerfect 12 has an XML editor that helps you edit, retrieve, validate, and save documents created with SGML or XML. Quattro Pro 12 includes XML import and export capabilities. WordPerfect Office 12 provides ideal XML tools for most businesses, satisfying the need to automate data processes with a simple, easy approach to XML-document creation.

Publish to PDF: With WordPerfect 12 and Presentations 12, publish documents and slideshow presentations to PDF format without purchasing Adobe Acrobat Distiller. The PDF publishing capabilities of WordPerfect Office 12 are very versatile--allowing you to publish documents to PDF format so they are optimized for document distribution, editing, or the Web. You can retain hyperlinks, generate bookmarks, embed fonts, and optimize images according to specific needs. Today, WordPerfect Office 12 has the most robust PDF features available in any office suite.

CrossTab Reports: In Quattro Pro 12, CrossTab Reports let you summarize large amounts of data from both spreadsheets created with Quattro Pro 12 and external databases. An excellent alternative to PivotTables from Microsoft Excel, CrossTab Reports let you analyze, organize, and summarize data in notebooks and databases. You can constantly update CrossTab Reports to provide accurate, timely information. In addition, you can connect two or more spreadsheets and produce a CrossTab Report to summarize the data.

Document routing: WordPerfect Office 12 enables you to send a document for online review to several participants in a specified order. The convenient routing process lets you involve several participants at once, one participant at a time, and allows each of the participants to see the changes made during each previous review. When you route a document, it is inserted in an e-mail as an attachment. You must have Microsoft Outlook as your default address book for this option to work.

HTML publishing: WordPerfect Office 12 can publish word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to HTML for viewing on the Web. The new Compatibility toolbars provide easy, one-click access to Publish-to-HTML functionality. In Presentations 12, you can publish slideshows to HTML, using the Internet Publisher, which guides you step-by-step through the creation of a presentation for the Web.

Show on the Go: In Presentations 12, you can create a self-executing version of a slideshow that can be played on any computer that uses the Windows operating system, even if it doesn’t have Presentations 12 installed. The slideshow files and the Presentations application files necessary to run the slideshow are copied to the disk on which you create the portable slideshow.

Reveal Codes: A feature unique to WordPerfect Office, Reveal Codes let you quickly format long or complex documents by viewing and editing formatting codes. Reveal Codes, which are inserted when you add text and formatting to a document, are hidden by default; however, you can display them in a separate window below the active document. You can also customize the display of Reveal Codes--for example, specify the font style and color, and several other formatting options--and you can print them.

Special legal tools: WordPerfect has long been the defacto word processing application in the legal industry thanks to unrivaled tools and features geared specifically for the legal profession. WordPerfect 12 continues this tradition with such features as the Pleading Wizard, the Clipbook, the Concordance tool, and support for EDGAR electronic document filing. To provide easy, one-click access to these tools, WordPerfect 12 includes the specialized Legal toolbar.

Competitive retail pricing and flexible licensing options: WordPerfect Office 12 is a full-featured, easy-to-use office productivity suite that's available at a lower cost than Microsoft Office. Corel Licensing makes it easy to purchase the Corel software you need. We offer two flexible programs that help ease license administration, reduce software deployment time, and lower your total cost of ownership. You’ll also enjoy numerous other benefits, including home and laptop use.

To purchase the upgrade version of WordPerfect Office 12, you must own a previous licensed version of Corel WordPerfect 8, Corel WordPerfect Suite 8, WordPerfect Office 2000, WordPerfect Office 2002, WordPerfect Office 11, WordPerfect Family Pack 1 - 5, Paradox 8 - 10, CorelDRAW 11, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 - 12, Corel Painter 8, Microsoft Office 2000 or higher, Microsoft Works 7, or Microsoft Works Suite 2000 or higher.

Product Description

WordPerfect Office 12 is a feature-rich value-priced compatible office suite that offers everything you need to boost productivity--and your bottom line. Offering powerful word processing versatile spreadsheets multimedia presentation and address book applications it is an excellent alternative to higher priced office suites. And now enhanced compatibility with popular file formats such as Microsoft Office PDF HTML and XML make WordPerfect Office 12 more attractive than ever. Full-featured versatile and easy to use it is one office suite that translates into great value!The following customers are eligible to purchase WordPerfect Office 12 at the upgrade price: - WordPerfect 8 WordPerfect Suite 8 (full upgrade and education editions). - WordPerfect Office 2000 WordPerfect Office 2002 (full upgrade and education editions). - WordPerfect Office 11 (full upgrade and education editions). - WordPerfect Family Pack 1 5 - Paradox 8 10 - CorelDRAW 11 (full upgrade and education editions) - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 12 (full upgrade and education editions). - Corel Painter 8 (full upgrade and education editions) - Microsoft Office 2000 or higher (full upgrade and academic editions). - Microsoft Works 7 - Microsoft Works Suite 2003 or higher Includes Pocket Oxford English Dictionary; WordPerfect Wireless Office Suite Powered by ZIM -- remote productivity; Address Book; Two CD-ROMs; User Guide (English Full and Upgrade boxes only); PDF-based User Guide available in Full Upgrade and Education editions; Quick Reference Card; Registration Card.* Create professional-looking WordPerfect Office 12 documents in just minutes with WordPerfect OfficeReady. Along with the classic WordPerfect Office templates WordPerfect OfficeReady comes with 40 new pre-formatted templates you can use to create business and personal documents spreadsheets and presentations. Get smarter. Work faster. Use templates. * In addition to providing the built-in WordPerfect Office 12 temp...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WordPerfect Office 12, May 25, 2004

By A Customer

Installed easily. It appears to be very compatible with Microsoft Word but it's reveal codes feature is still invaluable, and unlike Word all its features work. The new templates browser is very valuable. QuattroPro is also excellent. I never use Presentations nor Power Point so I cannot comment on these items. I hope WordPerfect stays around for a while to give some competition to the clunky, hard-to-use but ubiquitous Microsoft Word and Excel.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The better word processing program, January 6, 2005

By	Jason P. Gold (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't have much use for anything in the suite except WordPerfect. I've been using WordPerfect since before Windows, when it had a blue or a green screen, displayed mostly ASCII characters, there were no fonts except courier, and laser printers cost a small fortune. I work for a number of attorneys -- WordPerfect is the software of choice for wordprocessing in most offices I've worked in because, in my opinion, it is the better product for the job. It may also be because WordPerfect has been around for so long that everyone just migrated without changing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

When WordPerfect came out, it took over the market. When MicroSoft came out with Word, I had the feeling they did everything they could to make it different from WordPerfect just to use their power in the industry to take over the wordprocessing market, just like MicroSoft did with every other good software idea to come along. (e.g., Mozilla/Netscape, Norton Utilities.) I hate Microsoft's stupid animated paperclip -- it makes me feel like a 7 year old. "It looks like your writing a letter ..." Go away! It was amusing to watch it roll itself up and spit itself through some imaginary pinch rollers when you print a document. But only once. I want to tell MicroSoft to wrap that annoying the paperclip around their cable modems!! I'm an adult!

I have two versions of Word and WordPerfect 5, 7, 8, 10 and 12. (I just threw out 5.2 for Windows and 7 when I moved.) I use the MicroSoft product only when absolutely necessary -- usually because someone else needs the document in that format.

In my experience, Word does one thing better than WordPerfect - it works better (although not perfectly) with WEB pages better. It would be nice if WordPerfect went to the Web and got the pictures and had the resulting document look like the web page being pasted in. HEAR THAT COREL!?! However, I don't often copy entire web pages into my documents.

The reason I like WordPerfect so much is that it types more like a typewriter. You can set up and use styles if you want, but you can also just hit the tab button to indent the first line of a paragraph. If you want to change the margins for the entire document, you simply change the margins. The rest of the document follows the change. You don't have to change each paragraph.

In addition, you can get to the formatting codes. Hit Alt-F3 and the screen splits in half and displays all of the format codes -- bold, underline, tabs, indent codes, line spacing, column on and off, etc. Then you know exactly what you have done and fix and format it easily. This ability has proven useful on several occasions when clients, who insist on using Word for legal documents, cannot cajole Word to put their unruly documents into the format they want. (This is particularly true when using OCR with scanned or faxed documents.) By opening the Word document in WordPerfect, I have been able to use "Alt-F3" to identify the errant codes and quickly repair them. WordPerfect can then save the document in Word/RTF format with the problems fixed.

Working with columns is also easier. You turn on columns and tell it how many colums you want, set the width of each, and the space between them, and away you go. You have four types of columns to work with -- newspaper, balanced newspaper, parallel and parallel with block protect. It handles columns much better. I've tried the other software, and if you change text or printers, you can never get the columns to line up the way you want it. With Word, each colum change or page change seems to introduce new control codes, and a complete set of formatting, and you can never get it back the way you want it. I once tried to scan in a list of names and addresses which were in two or three columns into Word. Each name and address was placed in its own text box. I could never work with it.

The most prominent change between WP 10 and 12 is the workspace manager which allows you to switch between legal mode, original (classic) WordPerfect 5.1 mode (with the blue screen), legal mode, standard WordPerfect for Windows mode and Word mode. They have also included the ability to publish to Adobe PDF, HTML, and RTF/Word formats.

This is full featured software, and does everything I need. It handles tables, tables of content, tables of authorities, column sorts -- everything I need in a law office. Graphics can be dropped in with a click of the mouse. I'm considered to be almost an expert, and there is a lot I don't know!

Take time to get to know the software and you'll be glad you purchased it.

I recommend purchasing the stand alone student and teachers version as it contains all of the same programs at a lower cost.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, November 13, 2004

By	Barry L. Johnson (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a journal editor I use both Microsoft Word 2000 and WordPerfect 12. WordPerfect stands heads and shoulder above Word. Easier to use, more stable, more flexible, and more features. I found WordPerfect 12 to be a worthwhile improvement over version 11. Graphics are better and easier to use, in particular. It is a cinch to install and use.