WordPerfect 12

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.