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WordPerfect: History, Companies & Products

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Corel. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the previous market leader, WordStar.

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WordPerfect topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around WordPerfect.

Related topics
209
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
218
Extracted relationships
490
Concept neighborhoods
52
Bridge connections
218

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Version history · 52 topics
WordPerfect for DOS · 51 topics
WordPerfect for Windows · 41 topics
Overview · 26 topics
WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office · 24 topics
Reception · 13 topics
"Classic Mode" · 1 topics
Unicode and Asian language editing · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Developers
WordPerfect Corporation Novell Corel
License
Proprietary
Operating system
Windows 7 and later Old versions: See § Version history
Original authors
Brigham Young University Satellite Software International (SSI)
Platform
IA-32
Release
1979; 47 years ago (1979)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

WordPerfect for DOS

WordPerfect for Windows

WordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office

"Classic Mode"

Version history

Unicode and Asian language editing

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How WordPerfect connects Entity context

The extracted context around WordPerfect shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, WordPerfect → All, Although, Another, Applications, Corel Linux, Corel WordPerfect Office, CorelCentral, December, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Family Pack, FreeSpeech, It, January, Linux, March, May, Microsoft Visual Basic, NaturallySpeaking Standard, North America, November Another extracted example is WordPerfect → According, After Windows, American Institute, Ashton-Tate, Ashton-Tate's, By, Certified Public Accountants, Computer Intelligence, Computerworld, Dataquest, DOS, Fortune, IBM, Lotus Development, MicroPro's, Microsoft, Microsoft's, PC, Ronni Marshak, The Office Computing Report. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

WordPerfect

Top relations

related to Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 · 37
WordPerfect → All, Although, Another, Applications, Corel Linux, Corel WordPerfect Office, CorelCentral, December, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Family Pack, FreeSpeech, It, January, Linux, March, May, Microsoft Visual Basic, NaturallySpeaking Standard, North America, November
related to Market share · 25
WordPerfect → According, After Windows, American Institute, Ashton-Tate, Ashton-Tate's, By, Certified Public Accountants, Computer Intelligence, Computerworld, Dataquest, DOS, Fortune, IBM, Lotus Development, MicroPro's, Microsoft, Microsoft's, PC, Ronni Marshak, The Office Computing Report
related to Unix · 20
WordPerfect → At, CUPS, DEC Ultrix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, In July, Linux, Microport Unix, Motorola System V/88, NCR, Pyramid Tech Unix, SCO OpenServer, SCO Xenix, SGI IRIX, Solaris, Tavis Ormandy, The, Tru64, Unix, UnixWare
related to Microsoft vs Novell · 19
WordPerfect → Compounding WordPerfect's, Corel, Designed, In, May, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Novell, NT Enabled, Office, Q1-1997, Service Pack, The, This, To, While WordPerfect, Windows, Windows NT, Word
related to Reception · 19
WordPerfect → ASCII, August, Byte, Compute, December, Despite, Edward Mendelson, I'm, It, March, Mendelson, Orlando Sentinel, PC Magazine, Stating, The, The Yale Review, While, WordPerfect's, WordStar
related to WordPerfect Bundles and Suite · 19
WordPerfect → AppWare, Borland, Borland Office, Borland Paradox, Borland Software Corporation, Borland's Quattro Pro, DOS, In, LAN-based, Microsoft's Office Suite, Novell, Originally, PerfectFit, Quattro Pro, The, Windows, WordPerfect Library, WordPerfect Office, WordPerfect Office Suite
related to Support for European languages · 18
WordPerfect → Alpine, Dutchman Jan Raas, English, Europe, European, France, In, In January, Italy, LRS, Novell, Switzerland, The, The Language Resource File, United States, WordPerfect Corporation, WordPerfect's, WP
related to Atari ST · 17
WordPerfect → Atari, Atari ST, Atari STe, Atari's GEM, DOS, Falcon, Graphics Environment Manager, However, In, Like, Macintosh, Motorola, On, This, TT, WordPerfect Corp, WordPerfect ST
related to Corel buys WordPerfect from Novell · 17
WordPerfect → Coke, Corel, Corel WordPerfect, GroupWise, In January, March, Michael Cowpland, Microsoft Word, Novell, November, Ontario, Ottawa, Pepsi, Quattro Pro, The, Windows, Word
related to WordPerfect for DOS · 17
WordPerfect → Alan Ashton, Ashton, Bastian, Brigham Young University, Bruce Bastian, By, BYU, Data General, In, Inc, Orem, Pete, Peterson, Satellite Software International, SSI, Utah, Wang

Important terminology

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Important terminology

version windows corel office dos microsoft word suite novell market software released versions support program also users linux corporation macros

WordPerfect relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 490 structured relationships around WordPerfect. Examples in this analysis include WordPerfect → Developers → WordPerfect Corporation Novell Corel and WordPerfect → License → Proprietary. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WordPerfectDevelopersWordPerfect Corporation Novell Corel1.00infobox
WordPerfectLicenseProprietary1.00infobox
WordPerfectOperating systemWindows 7 and later Old versions: See § Version history1.00infobox
WordPerfectOriginal authorsBrigham Young University Satellite Software International (SSI)1.00infobox
WordPerfectPlatformIA-321.00infobox
WordPerfectRelease1979; 47 years ago (1979)1.00infobox
WordPerfectStable release2021 / May 20211.00infobox
WordPerfectTypeWord processor1.00infobox
WordPerfectWebsitewww.wordperfect.com/en/1.00infobox
WordPerfectis agood professional writer's tool0.90text
Tandy 2000instance ofwith versions for various non-PC compatibles0.80text
DEC Rainbowinstance ofwith versions for various non-PC compatibles0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around WordPerfect bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Version, Office and Windows. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • WordPerfect
    • Version
    • Office
    • Windows
    • Word
    • Dos
    • Corel
    • Suite
    • Corporation
    • Released
    • Microsoft
    • Market
    • Versions
  • wordperfect
    • Version
    • Office
    • Windows
    • Word
    • Dos
    • Corel
    • Suite
    • Corporation
    • Released
    • Microsoft
    • Market
    • Versions
  • word processing
    • Processor
    • Market
    • Microsoft
    • Wordperfect
    • Atari
    • Windows
    • Software
    • Version
    • St
    • System
    • Company
    • Corel
  • corel
    • Office
    • Suite
    • Version
    • Wordperfect
    • Linux
    • Released
    • New
    • Novell
    • Word
    • Processor
    • Corporation
    • Wp
  • microsoft windows
    • Word
    • Office
    • Windows
    • Wordperfect
    • Suite
    • Version
    • One
    • Release
    • Processor
    • Software
    • Released
    • New
  • application programming interface
    • Windows
    • One
    • Microsoft
    • Market
    • First
    • Wp
    • Office
    • System
    • Suite
    • Company
    • Linux
    • Dos
  • microsoft word
    • Processor
    • Market
    • Microsoft
    • Word
    • Office
    • Windows
    • Wordperfect
    • Atari
    • Suite
    • Software
    • Release
    • System
  • microsoft office
    • Suite
    • Word
    • Office
    • Wordperfect
    • Windows
    • Released
    • Version
    • Software
    • New
    • Available
    • Release
    • Linux

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For WordPerfect, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects WordPerfect with WordPerfect for DOS. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
WordPerfectWordPerfect for DOS · splits 166 ⟂ 53
WordPerfectVersion history · splits 166 ⟂ 53
WordPerfectWordPerfect for Windows · splits 177 ⟂ 42
WordPerfectOverview · splits 192 ⟂ 27
WordPerfectWordPerfect Suite and WordPerfect Office · splits 194 ⟂ 25
WordPerfectReception · splits 205 ⟂ 14

Map overview Semantic statistics

WordPerfect

Nodes219
Edges218
Triples490
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009132
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around WordPerfect to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — WordPerfect · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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