                        WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows
                            Product Information
                    Due to release fourth quarter 1994.

Product Introduction

As the latest version in the WordPerfect word processing product
line, WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows offers improvements that set
the standard for word and document processing. From simple
ease-of-use enhancements to sophisticated and intelligent
automation tools, WordPerfect s new capabilities strengthen the
product s position as the best word processor for Windows.

More documents are created worldwide using WordPerfect than with
any other software. WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows is the perfect
way to create better documents. 

Product Development Goals and Results

WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows was designed based on product
research and user feedback from four principal sources:

*    Usability research conducted at WordPerfect's
     industry-leading usability center with hundreds of subjects,
     studying a myriad of product design and implementation
     issues      

*    On-location field research with customers in their own
     environments to better understand their work needs and
     patterns and how our software can help them to get their
     work done easier and faster

*    Customer feedback via Customer Support lines, electronic
     forums, and WordPerfect's own regional sales staff

*    Enhancement requests from users of WordPerfect products 

The information from this research was carefully studied and
analyzed and combined with market demands and corporate
objectives. This resulted in the formulation of four principal
goals for developing WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, each to help
customers:      

*    Write Better
*    Work Smarter and Faster
*    Integrate Perfectly
*    Transition Easier

The overriding philosophy behind the design decisions made to
meet these four goals was to  get the software out of the way of
the work.  This means that the software needs to work with users,
not against them, to help them get their word processing work
done faster and with less effort. In addition, all product
changes were coordinated with the other applications of Novell s
new suite of products, PerfectOffice 3.0, so there would be
consistency and a high level of integration among the products.
Finally, as part of the Novel family of products, WordPerfect
made efforts to be even more network aware than ever before,
offering network customers new advantages and opportunities to
use the software in a workgroup environment. Each of the four
product goals are discussed below with examples of how they were
met in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows.

Write Better

Word processors have long provided tools to help you format text,
but they had no idea what your words meant. But now WordPerfect s
advanced PerfectSense  technology can understand words within
their context. Using PerfectSense, WordPerfect 6.1 can
automatically fix your grammar, search for all forms of a word
from the one that you supply, and replace words with the correct
form. You save time and and your documents look better as the
software does the work.

Grammatik 6

Grammar checking has traditionally been a process that checked
your document for common errors and gave you advice based on
proper grammar rules. The challenge was that you had to first
understand the advice and then determine how to modify the text
to make it better. Now with the new Grammatik 6 and PerfectSense
built into WordPerfect 6.1, you can check your grammar as easily
as you check your spelling. Grammatik 6 doesn t just offer advice
that you need an English professor to understand, but will
actually rewrite your sentences for you. All you have to do it
click Replace and let it do all the work. 

Find and Replace

The problem with find and replace has always been that it can
only look for exactly what you type. What you told us you needed
was a product that would let you specify a word and have it
automatically find all forms of that word and even replace them
with the correct forms of another word. Using PerfectSense
technology, the new Find and Replace in WordPerfect 6.1 does
exactly that. For example, you could find all forms of the word 
fly  (fly, flew, flown, flying, etc.) then automatically replace
them with the proper form of the word  drive  (drive, drove,
driven, driving, etc.). This capability is perhaps even more
significant in languages other than English where word forms can
be spelled very differently from the root. 

Speller and Thesaurus

In addition to the grammar checker, other WordPerfect writing
tools use PerfectSense technology to offer you better writing
assistance. Both Speller and Thesaurus use PerfectSense to look
up and replace words in the proper forms. The Thesaurus allows
you to look up words using any form, even if the form is not in
its word list. All WordPerfect writing tools access your
documents through our Writing Tools API (Application Programming
Interface), an open standard documented in the WordPerfect SDK
(Software Developer s Kit). WTAPI can be used by any Windows
application to directly access your document s text without the
use of the clipboard or other secondary transfer mechanisms that
can alter document format or content.

QuickFinder

QuickFinder, WordPerfect s patented file indexing and searching
program, lets you find files on your hard drive or network faster
than standalone applications costing hundreds of dollars. This
searching applies not only to WordPerfect documents, but to other
word processing files, spreadsheet and database files, and more.
You can search for filenames or types, or specific text in the
files, using wildcards and Boolean operators. When searching with
QuickFinder indexes, your results are instantaneous.

In WordPerfect 6.1, QuickFinder also offers new capabilities,
such as an interactive browser to speed directory selection; UNC
(Universal Naming Convention) support for network and
device-independent indexing; the Concept Builder that uses
PerfectSense technology to help you construct searches on word
forms, sounds, and even common misspellings; and Relevance
Ranking that sorts files in search results by the likelihood of
significance. 

QuickCorrect

QuickCorrect, first introduced in WordPerfect 6.0a, now has
several additional capabilities to automatically fix errors and
improve your documents as you type. Not only can it correct
hundreds of spelling errors on the fly, but  QuickCorrect will
also automatically correct capitalization, delete extra spaces,
put in typeset-quality quotation marks, and more. You can also
use QuickCorrect entries to expand text, such as having your
initials become your full name when you press the spacebar.
QuickCorrect makes you a better writer; all you have to do is
turn it on.

Work Smarter and Faster

Your word processor should work with you and for you, being smart
enough to take care of common and complex tasks without extra
effort on your part. It should also provide quick tools that will
save you time and effort. WordPerfect 6.1 does this with a host
of enhancements, only some of which are listed below, that let
you work smarter and faster than  ever before.

Templates and Document Experts

Our research showed that most people were not using document
templates in WordPerfect or other products, for two principal
reasons: 1) they didn t know how to use them or even that they
were there; and, 2) if they did find them, they didn t think the
supplied templates were relevant to their personal work. To
address these concerns, WordPerfect 6.1 now ships with over 50
document templates all easily accessed each time you select File,
New to create a new document. These templates can be used for
common tasks such as letter writing, fax cover sheets, memos, and
much more, making them immediately useful. They are based on
accepted standards for formatting and content, so you can use
them with confidence. They are also fully automated, so they
prompt you for the information they need to be accurate and
complete. In addition, you can easily create your own templates
with our new Template Coach and Prompts builder, letting you make
custom solutions for specific tasks in your environment.

Document Experts supplement the templates by providing an
additional level of automation in creating some of your most
common documents. For example, the Letter Expert will help you
build your letters as you work on them, complete with openings,
closings, enclosures, and content assistance. The Calendar Expert
can help you build calendars in any of four formats, portrait or
landscape, and for as many months as you would like. Other
document experts are available for newsletters, faxes, and memos.

Table Expert

Formatting a table to look just right can be a time-consuming
task, often with many selections to make using borders, lines,
fills, and text styles. WordPerfect 6.1 makes this easy by
providing the Table Expert, a simple way to choose from a large
number of pre-created table styles for instantly improving a
table s appearance. But WordPerfect 6.1 doesn t stop there if one
of the styles in the Expert doesn t meet your needs, you can
easily create your own and add them to the list. And because
these are styles, you can modify the table, such as adding rows
and columns, and it will still retain the look you have chosen. 
Another change in WordPerfect 6.1 is that table columns can be
sized automatically to their content. This makes it a one-click
operation to get table column widths matched up exactly with your
data and is another example of how WordPerfect saves you time and
effort. Combine that with nearly 100 table formulas, named
ranges, and automatic data fill for numbers, days of the week,
months, and more, and you have the most powerful table feature in
any word processor.

Make It Fit Expert

If you have ever spent time changing fonts and other settings to
make a document fit on a certain number of pages, you ll
appreciate WordPerfect s new Make It Fit Expert. This step- saver
can, for example, take your letter that is just slightly more
than one page and shrink it down to fit on one. But Make It Fit
doesn t just shrink a document. It can also take your 9- page
report or newsletter and automatically expand it out to 12 pages
or more. The best part is that you decide what settings can be
changed fonts, spacing, or margins. You write the text, and
WordPerfect 6.1 s Expert will Make It Fit the number of pages you
need. 

Multiple Level Undo/Redo

In order to give you the freedom to safely explore document
editing and formatting options, WordPerfect 6.1 offers you up to
300 levels of Undo/Redo. Anything you do in your document can be
undone, and then redone if needed. To make your shared documents
secure, Undo/Redo gives you the ability to erase the changes from
the document when you save it. 

QuickFormat with AutoUpdate

If you already use QuickFormat in WordPerfect for Windows, you
know how easy it is to  load  formatting from one section of text
and  paint  it to other locations. Now with WordPerfect 6.1,
QuickFormat lets you tie text together so that if you make
formatting changes in one location, all other text you painted is
automatically and dynamically updated to match. This is
especially useful for headings and titles that might be scattered
throughout your document but need to look the same. QuickFormat
is the easist way to automatically to make and keep your
documents looking great.

QuickSelect

After typing, selecting text is the most common editing task
performed, so it makes sense to build as much intelligence into
that process as possible. WordPerfect 6.1 does a number of things
with selection, such as automatically selecting entire words as
you extend your selection to multiple words; applying attributes,
such as bold or italic, to an entire word if nothing is selected;
and giving you easy access to selection options, such as
sentence, paragraph, page, and the entire document by clicking
the right mouse button in the left margin.

Intelligent Cut and Paste

Whenever you move text using cut and paste or drag and drop,
there are many cases where you have to go back and manually add
or delete space characters, often in both the old and new
locations. WordPerfect 6.1 is intelligent enough to automatically
perform these steps after copying or moving text, letting the
software work for you. 

Open As Copy

Our research showed that one of the most common things people do
is open existing documents and reuse them for new tasks, but
their concern is always accidentally overwriting the old file
with the changes. So WordPerfect 6.1 made this common task easy
with an Open As Copy option in the Open dialog. Simply check this
option when opening a file, and it will appear in WordPerfect 6.1
without a name but with all the content and formatting of the
original. You can then edit it as needed without worrying about
losing the original document. A simple thing perhaps, but one
that we know will save you steps, because you told us that s how
you like to work.

Drop Cap

A great way to add a professional touch to documents is to use a
drop cap at the start of a paragraph. In WordPerfect 6.1, this is
done easily by making one menu selection. You can choose from any
of 14 pre-defined styles, or customize your drop caps with line
size, margin positioning, borders, and fills. Not only will your
documents look nice, but when you use a drop cap in WordPerfect
6.1, your paragraphs will still function correctly with all other
features, such as the spell and grammar checkers.

Drag to Create

WordPerfect for Windows has for years had great graphics handling
abilities, including graphic styles that let you pre-determine
where images and text in boxes should be and how they should
look. But if you wanted to pre-determine a location for images or
make them a size different from the default, you had to change
them after the fact. Now with WordPerfect 6.1, you can place a
graphics image or text box in just the right place by drawing it
exactly where you want it at insertion time. Once you select Drag
to Create, you can continue to use it for graphics, text boxes,
equations any kind of box you might use to enhance the look and
functionality of your documents.

Transition Easier

WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows provides a host of tools, in the form
of conversions, Experts, Coaches, Tutorials, and more, to make
the transition from DOS or other environments to WordPerfect 6.1
as smooth as possible.

Document Conversion

WordPerfect 6.1 provides the best conversions from the
WordPerfect 5.x file format. Not only do your documents come in
with the same appearance, but the structure also matches up,
making it easy to edit those documents. In addition, WordPerfect
6.1 supports conversions for many other major application
formats, such as Word 6.0 and Ami Pro 3.01, and converts WP 5.x
macros, something no other product offers.

QuickStart Tutorial

To get you up and running quickly on WordPerfect 6.1, the
QuickStart tutorial will launch the first time you use the
product. This brief tour will familiarize you with the product
interface and let you immediately feel at home in WordPerfect
6.1. If you ever need to, you can come back to QuickStart
tutorial any time through the Coaches dialog. 
Upgrade Expert

WordPerfect 6.1 makes it easy to upgrade from a previous version
of WordPerfect or from other competing products with the Upgrade
Expert. Providing  Show Me  and  Do It  buttons, as well as
access to related Coaches and Help file information, the Upgrade
Expert is the place to start to make your transition to
WordPerfect smooth and pleasant. 

New Coaches

Coaches have proven to be a popular tool not only for getting
things done, but for learning more about WordPerfect in the
process. New Coaches for WordPerfect 6.1 cover topics such as
templates and styles, letting you easily take advantage of some
of the most powerful product features the product has to offer.

Customer Support

WordPerfect, the Novell Applications Group, has the most renowned
customer support effort in the industry. In fact, WordPerfect
recently won PC World s World Class Award for the best support
for the fifth year in a row. WordPerfect, the Novell Applications
Group, is still the only major software vendor to offer toll free
support. That means to get all your technical questions answered,
you can use free, toll-free support for 180 days after your first
phone call.

Integrate Perfectly

WordPerfect 6.1 plays a key role in Novell s new suite of
applications, PerfectOffice 3.0. Many enhancements have been made
to make the applications in PerfectOffice work well together. In
addition, WordPerfect 6.1 supports key integration technologies
that let it work with all other Windows applications so you can
get your work done in the way that is best for you.

Common Interface

The products in PerfectOffice 3.0 share a common interface; the
menus, toolbars, and general appearance are decidedly similar,
making them easy to learn and use. This standardization and
simplification of interface benefits all users of WordPerfect
6.1, but especially those who use more than one application from
PerfectOffice 3.0.

PerfectFit Technology

PerfectFit Technology allows WordPerfect applications under
Windows to share a number of features and capabilities, as well
as a common macro language. PerfectFit not only reduces the
amount of memory and disk space required by the applications by
letting them share common code, but it further enhances the
common look and feel of all PerfectOffice programs. For example,
with PerfectFit, all PerfectOffice 3.0 applications, including
WordPerfect 6.1, have a common spell checker and the same file
management tools in the Open and Save dialogs.

PerfectScript

As part of PerfectFit technology, PerfectOffice 3.0 is the first
suite of applications to offer cross-product macro recording,
called PerfectScript. Just like recording a simple macro in
WordPerfect itself, PerfectScript makes it easy to create custom
automated solutions that use one or a combination of
PerfectOffice applications.

OLE 2

OLE is a powerful way to build compound documents and let
applications work together.WordPerfect 6.1 supports OLE 2 as both
a container and a server, allowing for in- place editing of
objects in WordPerfect documents, drag-and-drop across programs
and documents windows, and linking or embedding of any OLE object
such as graphics, data, sound, or other multimedia elements.

Network Support

If you re working on a network, WordPerfect 6.1 is designed to
make it easy. From powerful network installation and
configuration abilities to full Universal Naming Convention
support at install time, the product runs very well on a network
right out of the box and offers you the ability to set it up as
freely or as tightly controlled as you like for your business and
environment.

Object Exchange (OBEX)

OBEX provides the ability to easily share data across a network,
phone line, or other method of communication, something other
standards do not offer today. WordPerfect 6.1 supports OBEX
publish and subscribe, allowing you to easily exchange data with
other OBEX enabled applications such as Quattro Pro and Paradox.
ODBC and IDAPI

WordPerfect has long provided the ability to directly access
spreadsheet data in documents. WordPerfect 6.0 added database
access for dBase, Paradox, SQL, and other formats, making it
simple to import or link data from any of these sources. Now with
ODBC and IDAPI support, WordPerfect 6.1 supports the latest
database programs, including Microsoft Access and Borland dBase
for Windows. You can access all data tables and fields and
perform queries on the data before importing it into your
documents.

TWAIN

TWAIN support in WordPerfect 6.1 allows you to easily include
scanned images with your work. Just select the menu option in
WordPerfect, scan the image, and bring it right back into your
document. WordPerfect is the first and only word processor to
support TWAIN, the industry standard for scanning created by
major vendors such as Hewlett-Packard and Logitech.

Open Document Management API (ODMA)

WordPerfect 6.1 supports ODMA for document management which
provides tight integration with products such as Novell
SoftSolutions. Support for ODMA, the industry standard, allows
WordPerfect and SoftSolutions to work together seamlessly to
provide users with the best combination of word processing and
document management services. 


Copyright 1994 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the
United States of America. This information is accurate to the
best knowledge of Novell, Inc. based on product comparisons
completed by Novell, Inc. on August 4, 1994. These comparison
results are subject to change as products are updated or
modified. Novell, Inc. makes no warranties, express or implied,
in this comparison. Purchasers are encouraged to personally
evaluate all products. WordPerfect, WPWin, Grammatik, and
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