
WordPerfect, now owned by Corel corporation, first saw the light of day on 1979 for exclusive use at a university, and was later sold commercially under its current name in 1980. WordPerfect is the predecessor of most word-processing software in the market today, and Microsoft Word owes its existence from the innovations that WordPerfect has contributed to the field. Other utilities include tools and other stand-alone applications for use with WordPerfect, including a LAN email facility. At the core of the suite is WordPerfect, followed by Quattro Pro for spreadsheets, Presentations (slide show application similar to PowerPoint), Lightning (a digital notebook similar to OneNote), Nuance PaperPort (a document manager), Mozilla Firefox (web browser), and WinZip (a file compression and archival tool).

The WordPerfect Office is a suite of office productivity applications by Corel that includes several key applications.
