WordPerfect
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- proper noun
- Word-processing packages such as AppleWorks for Apple and WordPerfect (the new LetterPerfect and Student WordPerfect are simpler programs) and DisplayWrite IV for IBM personal computers can be used by students for writing reports based on results from laboratory activities and science projects.
- Corel WordPerfect
Examples
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If I type, WP will bring up WordPerfect for DOS as my top retro application.
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If I'm traveling and using someone else's office, and I need to print something, I can pull out a floppy disk of my document written in WordPerfect, and I'm in business.
Academic text (1993) -
And really WordPerfect had most of the stuff, you know, how to spell check it, you know, process words.
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It's like the Palm Pilot or any other early technology you want, you know, Quattro Pro, WordPerfect, pick your technology.
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This information can be downloaded using the protocol available from your local computer systems office, and then transported into a favorite word processing program, such as WordPerfect.
Academic text (1995) -
If you use WordPerfect, Apple's iWork Pages, OpenOffice, or its Mac equivalent NeoOffice, the latest versions of these programs can open Word 2007 files.
Academic text (2009) -
Many companies used WordPerfect to create their documents before Microsoft Word became popular.
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She completed her resume using WordPerfect on her old computer.
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In the 1990s, WordPerfect was a leading choice for professional word processing.
Synonyms
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3.0
A program on a computer for writing, editing and printing text documents
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3.4
A tool on a computer that helps you do tasks like writing documents or using spreadsheets
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3.6
A computer program that helps you write, edit, and print documents
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
WordPerfect was chosen as a product name by joining Word and Perfect to suggest 'perfect writing' and easy editing. That's why WordPerfect became the name of the word-processing program.