                       WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows 
                            Product Information

As the latest version in the WordPerfect 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
intelligent automation tools, WordPerfect s new capabilities
strengthen the product s position as the best word processor for
Windows. 

Word processing is fundamental to almost any work environment, and
more documents are created worldwide using WordPerfect than any
other software. Each of the enhancements to WordPerfect 6.1 were
made to simplify word processing tasks. New technologies such as
PerfectSense  let your computer do more of the work without getting
in the way of what you want to do with a word processor write,
communicate, share your ideas, get your work done. The legacy of
WordPerfect combined with exciting and time-saving innovations make
WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows the perfect way to create better
documents. 

Development Goals and Results

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

*    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 better and faster. In this ground-breaking research,
     product designers categorized user work patterns and studied
     user intent not just features used, but what people were
     actually trying to accomplish. Using this kind of work
     analysis, WordPerfect 6.1 for  Windows moves beyond product
     feature lists with innovations that help people work faster.

*    Usability research conducted at WordPerfect s industry-leading
     usability center with hundreds of subjects, studying a myriad
     of product design and implementation issues. Usability is used
     to refine new product designs and test field research
     conclusions. The results of usability are evidenced in
     improvements such as the new interface design, simplified
     dialog boxes, and a more accessible help system. 

*    Customer feedback via Customer Support lines, electronic
     forums, and WordPerfect's own regional sales staff.
     WordPerfect has always valued feedback from customers and uses
     their praise, concerns, and complaints to improve products. 

*    Enhancement requests from users of WordPerfect products.
     WordPerfect has a formalized system for receiving and
     processing enhancement requests that feeds the information
     directly to the developers who use the requests in determining
     product improvements. 

This information was carefully analyzed along 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
*     Transition Easily
*     Integrate Perfectly

The overriding philosophy of all design decisions 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 Novell 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 is discussed in more detail in this
guide with examples of how each has been 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. Now WordPerfect s
advanced PerfectSense technology can understand words within their
context and help you write better. 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 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 teacher to understand, but will actually rewrite your
sentences for you. Just click Replace and let WordPerfect 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  buy  (buy, bought, buying, etc.)
then automatically replace them with the proper form of the word 
purchase  (purchase, puchased, purchasing, etc.). This capability
is perhaps even more significant in languages other than English
where word forms can be spelled much differently from the root. 

Spell Checker and Thesaurus

In addition to the grammar checker, other WordPerfect writing tools
use PerfectSense technology to offer you better writing assistance.
Both the spell checker 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.  

QuickFinder

QuickFinder, WordPerfect s patented file indexing and searching
program, lets you find files on your hard drive or network faster
than similar standalone applications costing hundreds of dollars.
This searching ability applies to WordPerfect documents as well as
other word processing, spreadsheet,  database files, and more. You
can search for filenames or types or for specific text in the
files, using wildcards and Boolean operators. When searching with
QuickFinder indexes, your results are displayed in seconds.

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 writing.

QuickCorrect includes more than 130 of the most commonly misspelled
words and you can add hundreds more to automatically correct
spelling errors on the fly. QuickCorrect can now automatically
remove extra spaces in between words and sentences, capitalize the
first letter of a sentence, and insert typeset-quality quotation
marks. 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; you just have to
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 more than 50 new document
templates all nicely grouped and easy to discover 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
immediately use them for your work 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 create calendars in any of four formats, either 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 predefined
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 using the Size Column to Fit
option. 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 will
use Make It Fit to increase or decrease the size of your document
up to 50 percent.  

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 easiest way
to automatically 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: 1) automatically selecting entire words as you
extend your selection to multiple words, 2) applying attributes,
such as bold or italic, to an entire word if nothing is selected,
and 3) 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 box. 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 choosing Drop Cap from the Format menu. You can
choose from any of 14 predefined styles or customize your drop caps
with line size, margin positioning, borders, and fills. When you
use a drop cap, your documents will look nice and your paragraphs
will still function correctly with all other features such as the
speller and grammar checker.

Drag to Create

For years, WordPerfect for Windows has had great graphics handling
abilities, including graphic styles that let you determine the
position and appearance of images and text boxes. Now WordPerfect
6.1 includes a Drag to Create option on the Graphics menu that lets
you draw your box so you can position and size it just the way you
like. After drawing your box, you are immediately prompted to
insert your content so inserting an image is a one-step process.
Once you have selected 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 Easily

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, the most popular file format in the world. Unlike
other word processors who have WordPerfect conversions, WordPerfect
6.1 conversions retain the structure as well as the appearance of
WordPerfect documents so users can easily edit them. In addition,
WordPerfect 6.1 supports conversions for other major application
formats, such as Word 6.0 and Ami Pro 3.01, and is the only word
processor to offer conversions for WP 5.x macros. 

QuickStart Coach

To get you up and running quickly on WordPerfect 6.1, the
QuickStart Coach will launch the first time you use the product.
This brief product tour will familiarize you with the product
interface and let you immediately feel at home in WordPerfect 6.1.
If you need to, you can come back to the QuickStart Coach any time
through the Coaches dialog box. 
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. This Expert highlights commands from various word
processors and displays the equivalent commands in WordPerfect 6.1.
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 for getting things done
and 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 features the
product has to offer.

Help

Unlike some other Windows programs, WordPerfect 6.1 includes Help
that is really helpful. Research about Help led to three
significant improvements that make Help more visual and accessible:
1) more synonyms in the Search terms, 2) better organization, and
3) a visually appealing interface. With more synonyms, you are more
likely to find the term you want when searching. Help is now better
organized with a hierarchical structure so you can quickly move
from general to specific topics. And a visually inviting interface
lets you click pictures of sample documents to see how they were
created.

Customer Support

WordPerfect, the Novell Applications Group, has the most renowned
customer support effort in the industry. In fact, WordPerfect
recently won the PC World 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. So 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 reduces the amount of memory and disk
space required by the applications by letting them share common
code and it 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
dialog boxes. One third of the code in WordPerfect 6.1 is shared by
other PerfectOffice applications. 

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, PerfectScript makes it easy to create custom automated
solutions that use one or a combination of PerfectOffice
applications. Included with PerfectScript in WordPerfect 6.1 is a
new visual Dialog Editor so you can easily create custom dialogs
for your macros. 

OLE 2

Object Linking and Embedding (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
movement 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 well on a network right out of the box. You
have the ability to set it up as freely or as tightly controlled as
you like for your 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 Acquire Image from the
Insert menu, 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