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Graduate to The Other Office! $99 U.S. WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition Available Now OTTAWA --(Business Wire)-- June 2, 2004 --Offering a Rich Feature Set & Microsoft Office Compatibility at a Value Price Corel today announced the availability of WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition, a new office suite that is priced and licensed specifically to meet the needs of students, teachers and a wide variety of value-conscious customers in educational and non-profit organizations. Offering the same powerful applications as WordPerfect Office 12 Professional at the affordable suggested retail price (SRP) of $99 U.S. ($129 CDN), WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition delivers a feature-rich, value-priced office suite that is highly compatible with Microsoft(R) Office, and $200 U.S. ($270 CDN) less than the SRP of WordPerfect Office(R) 12 Standard Edition. WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition offers users a flexible licensing and eligibility program that allows the product to be installed on up to three home computers when purchased by anyone living in a home where an eligible individual resides. A full listing of eligibility requirements is available online at www.wordperfect.com/education. WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition also offers a special upgrade path for graduating students. Unlike other vendors, Corel offers a direct upgrade path from its special education edition to the full version. Users upgrading today to WordPerfect Office 12 from any previous education edition of WordPerfect Office or Microsoft Office are eligible to pay SRP $149 U.S. ($199 CDN)-a 63% savings over the SRP of Microsoft Office. "Whether you're learning, teaching or making purchase decisions on behalf of an educational institution, this special edition of WordPerfect Office 12 will have a dramatic impact on your budget and your productivity," said Richard Carriere, director of office productivity for Corel. "WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition delivers a powerful combination of robust features and enhanced Microsoft Office compatibility at 34% less than the SRP of the Microsoft equivalent. These benefits, combined with exceptional ease of use and unlimited free online support, make WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition the ideal office suite for any value-conscious student or teacher." "With educational institutions' budgets tighter than ever, a low-cost alternative office suite is exactly what many schools need," said Steve Ledbetter, Vice President of Business Development for Academic Superstore. "WordPerfect Office 12 provides the compatibility, features and cost that schools are looking for, all in a package that is particularly well suited to schools in terms of ease of use and excellent control over formatting." "If you're teaching word processing, the Reveal Codes feature is an absolute must-our staff couldn't survive without it," said Ronald Kirkpatrick, Director of Technology for Maconaquah School District in Bunker Hill, IN. "Using Reveal Codes, the word processing teacher can easily trouble shoot their students' work. You just hit Alt-F3, fix the problem, and move on. WordPerfect also has the common menus and icons found in other office suites and can mimic their interfaces. Together these features make WordPerfect Office 12 ideal for students learning how to use a word processor." "As a non-profit health care organization, our medical center is eligible to purchase WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition, and that's great news for our budget," said John Lewis, Senior System Analyst of St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, MO. "WordPerfect Office is a component of every desktop in our organization and our staff benefit from a number of features, including the simplicity of WordPerfect's mail merge and the flexibility of WordPerfect's sorting within tables. The great price keeps us coming back, but for our users it's features like these that make WordPerfect Office a pleasure to use." Offering Compatibility and the Features Students and Teachers Need Delivering enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition provides the applications and features students and teachers need most. The suite is built around four of the most trusted office productivity applications on the desktop- WordPerfect, for powerful word processing; Quattro(R) Pro, for versatile spreadsheets, Presentations(TM), for multimedia presentations; and Paradox(R), the relational database. WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition provides feature enhancements designed to increase productivity and simplify the exchange of information: -0- *T - Enhanced! Compatibility with Microsoft(R) Office - Based on user feedback, Corel has improved the suite's compatibility with Microsoft Office. With many new compatibility enhancements, it's now faster and easier than ever to share information and collaborate with faculty, teachers and students using Microsoft(R) Word, Microsoft(R) Excel and Microsoft(R) PowerPoint(R). - Enhanced! Microsoft Office file conversion help files - Improved help files provide strong support for users converting documents between Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office 12 formats. - New! Compatibility toolbars - WordPerfect Office 12 allows users to open, edit, print and save Microsoft Office files without searching through menus or making multiple selections. Users can now quickly publish documents to PDF, the Web, XML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint at the click of a button-saving time and dramatically reducing the complexity of working with Microsoft Office files. - New! Workspace Manager - The new Workspace Manager allows users to easily adjust the user interface-including toolbars, menu items and shortcut keys-to meet their needs. Choose between WordPerfect Office- or Microsoft Office-style interfaces, Lotus(R) 1-2-3 Mode, WordPerfect Legal Mode and Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) 5.1 Classic Mode. By allowing users to access tools and features from the locations that are familiar to them, WordPerfect Office 12 dramatically reduces training and ramp-up time-two critical barriers to adopting an alternative office suite. - New! WordPerfect(R) OfficeReady(TM) - WordPerfect OfficeReady enables users to organize, preview and access WordPerfect Office 12 templates in one easy-to-use browser. Get links to 40 new templates and access to many more via the Internet.(i) - New! Free, Unlimited Web-Based Support - Now registered users can access unlimited, free Web-based support through www.corel.com/support, including 24/7 access to the Corel online knowledge-base, and free email support. *T Eligibility The following customers are eligible to purchase boxed or licensed versions of WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition: accredited schools, faculties, full-or part-time registered students, academic supervisory organizations, hospitals, libraries, museums, and nonprofit charitable and religious organizations. Proof of eligibility is required. For details on Corel's Educational Definition, or to find the Corel Customer Service Center nearest you, please visit www.corel.com/education. Pricing and Availability WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition is available for purchase at the suggested retail price of $99 U.S. ($129 CDN). WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition can be purchased through www.wordperfect.com or through leading resellers. A full listing of academic resellers is available at www.corel.com/edresellers. A full listing of retail partners and other Corel resellers is available at www.corel.com/partners. Corel's entire product line, including WordPerfect Office 12, can be purchased by academic or other institutions through the company's outstanding volume licensing program. For more information, please visit www.corel.com/clp. More information on WordPerfect Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition, as well as other versions of WordPerfect Office 12, can be found on the Web at www.wordperfect.com. (i)Charges may apply About Corel Corporation Corel provides innovative software solutions and services that help millions of customers worldwide improve their productivity. Founded in 1985, the Company is best known for its leading graphics and office productivity solutions, including CorelDRAW(R) and WordPerfect(R). With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel has offices around the globe. For more information, please visit www.corel.com. (C) 2004 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, Paradox and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
