Corel WordPerfect Suite 8

Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 adds an updated, more intuitive user interface to a classic product. The new context-sensitive Property Bar, updated toolbars, and streamlined dialog boxes provide a highly tuned and intuitive working environment.

Property Bar

This innovative and powerful context-sensitive bar changes, depending on the task you are doing. For example, when you are working on a table, the Property Bar displays table tools. When you select a graphic, the Property Bar changes to graphics tools.

Application Bar

The powerful new Application Bar lets you switch between documents, drag and drop information, and easily work with multiple documents.

Corel PerfectExpert

The Corel PerfectExpert combines the best features from QuickTasks, templates, Help, and Coaches to help you accomplish your work more quickly. The Corel PerfectExpert can guide you through a detailed project such as creating a resume (even if you want to use other suite applications to create parts of the document), or it can guide you through a smaller task such as inserting a clipart image. The Corel PerfectExpert provides you with galleries of professionally-designed documents to choose from, and you can change the layout and content in any number of ways to match your needs.

HTML Support

With the addition of HTML forms support, Corel WordPerfect continues to lead the industry in Internet publishing technology. Using the Internet Publisher, you can add form fields to your web document. These fields include radio buttons, check boxes, selection lists, and text boxes, making the gathering of information easier than ever. You can insert sound clips, image maps, and even Java applets to make your page exciting and easy to navigate.

Corel WordPerfect supports HTML specifications 2.0 and 3.2, and includes some additional browser-specific tags recognized by Netscape Navigator 3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Internet Explorer version 3.0 and higher.

QuickLinks

Corel WordPerfect pioneered the ability to link text to documents and bookmarks with the Hypertext feature. Corel WordPerfect 7 added the ability to link to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the Internet. Corel WordPerfect 8 continuesto improve this capability with the QuickLinks feature. When you type text that begins with "www," "ftp," "http," or "mailto," QuickLinks automatically converts it to an Internet link. You can even modify QuickLinks to convert the link to more meaningful terms. For example, when you type "www.corel.com," QuickLinks can replace the visible text with "Corel" and create a link to the Corel home page at URL http://www.corel.com.

Intel MMX Support

Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 is the first software suite to support the Intel Pentium with MMX technology. You do not need to have a computer equipped with MMX technology to run Corel WordPerfect 8. However, an MMX-enhanced computer can improve the performance of Corel WordPerfect by reducing the time it takes to redraw bitmap and vector graphics and improving speed in other areas.

Drawing Layer

The new Drawing Layer lets you draw graphics objects directly on top of text, group graphics objects, and set the order of graphics objects. Create lines and shapes with arrowheads, polygons, circles, and more. Add color, gradient fills, and patterns to give extra polish to your documents. You can even draw over the top of clipart or a chart you've inserted into your document.

Enhanced Tables

Tables have always been a hallmark of Corel WordPerfect. You can insert tables that span the full page width, or just a portion of it. When you a click on a table, the table Property Bar appears giving you one-click access to size rows dynamically within a table and quickly join or split cells with a single click and drag. Formatting is easy using QuickFormat for tables. Simply select the table cell that contains the formatting you like, choose QuickFormat, and apply the format to the cell you want to modify.

Grammar-As-You-Go

Corel WordPerfect 7 added Spell-As-You-Go, a timesaving feature that lets you correct spelling errors as you type. Corel WordPerfect 8 adds Grammar-As-You-Go, another timesaving feature that lets you recognize and fix common grammar problems as you type. For example, a phrase such as "they is home" is marked in the document. Right-click the marked phrase and choose from a list of possible suggestions, or ignore the marked phrase and move on.

Corel Versions

Corel Versions solves the problem of trying to control and track multiple copies of the same file. Instead of trying to keep track of all your updates to a file by saving new versions of it under different file names, Corel Versions lets you save the changes you have made to each successive versionof your file.

With Corel Versions you can:

Archive previous versions of your files

Retrieve any archived version of a file

View 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

Specify how many versions to keep in the document history list

Protect a specific archived version from being discarded from the history list

SGML Editor

Using the familiar Corel WordPerfect environment, you can create new SGML documents, edit existing SGML documents, mark up text, validate tags, and improve how your SGML documents are printed. You can also use the power of the Corel WordPerfect writing tools to check spelling and correct typing errors automatically with QuickCorrect. You can hide the SGML codes in the document window and use Corel WordPerfect's text formatting to make the document easier for you to read on screen. Corel WordPerfect provides:

A structured view of the document providing the WYSIWYG view of the document on one side and a tree view on the other.

• Improved graphics support so that graphics and the markup associated with the graphic can be imported and exported with the SGML document.

• Automatic mapping for ISO characters during the DTD compiling process so multi-national characters are mapped to the appropriate characters in the editor. (Characters that do not fall within the ISO character sets can still be mapped by hand.)

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