Editing WordPerfect (section)

===WordPerfect Library/Office utilities===
WordPerfect Corporation produced a variety of ancillary and spin-off products. WordPerfect Library,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/07/science/personal-computers-word-processor-quest.html |title = Wordprocessor quest |first = Erik |last = Sandberg-Diment |date = July 7, 1987 }}</ref> introduced in 1986 and later renamed WordPerfect Office (not to be confused with Corel's [[Windows]] office suite of the [[WordPerfect Office|same name]]), was a package of [[DOS]] network and stand-alone [[utility software]] for use with WordPerfect. The package included a DOS menu shell and [[file manager]] which could edit binary files as well as WordPerfect or Shell macros, calendar, and a general-purpose [[flat file database]] program that could be used as the data file for a [[mail merge|merge]] in WordPerfect and as a [[contact manager]].

After Novell acquired WordPerfect Corporation,<ref name=Brinkley.NYT2K/> it incorporated many of these utilities into Novell [[GroupWise]].

====LetterPerfect====
In 1990, WordPerfect Corporation also offered LetterPerfect, which was a reduced-functionality version of WP-DOS 5.1 intended for use on less-capable hardware such as the laptops of the day, and as an entry-level product for students and home users; the name (but not the code) was purchased from a small Missouri company that had produced one of the first word processors for the [[Atari 8-bit computers]]. LP did not support tables, labels, sorting, equation editing or styles.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sTwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20 |title = From the company that wrote the book on Word Processing |magazine = InfoWorld |date = November 5, 1990 |publisher = InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. |via = Google Books |page = 20 |volume = 12 |issue = 35 |type = Ad }}</ref> It sold for about US$100 but did not catch on and was soon discontinued.

====DataPerfect====
Another program distributed through WordPerfect Corporation (and later through Novell) was DataPerfect for DOS, a fast and capable hierarchical database management system (DBMS) requiring as little as 300 KB of free DOS memory to run. It was written by Lew Bastian. In December 1995, Novell released DataPerfect as copyrighted freeware and allowed the original author to continue to update the program. Updates were developed until at least 2008.

DataPerfect supports up to 99 data files ("panels") with each holding up to 16 million records of up to 125 fields and an unlimited number of variable-length memo fields which can store up to 64,000 characters each. Networked, DataPerfect supports up to {{val|10000|fmt=commas}} simultaneous users.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = DataPerfect: A Perfect Database for the Palmtop |first = Ralph |last = Alvy |date = 2010 |magazine = [[The HP Palmtop Paper]] |volume = 8 |number = 1 |publisher = [[Thaddeus Computing]] |url = http://www.palmtoppaper.com/ptphtml/43/43c00008.htm |access-date = December 18, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161218105358/http://www.palmtoppaper.com/ptphtml/43/43c00008.htm |archive-date = December 18, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Pounding a New Nail With a 30-Year-Old Hammer |first = David |last = Britten |date = December 14, 2016 |url = http://dave.brittens.org/blog/new-nail-30-year-old-hammer.html |access-date = December 18, 2016 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161218105241/http://dave.brittens.org/blog/new-nail-30-year-old-hammer.html |archive-date = December 18, 2016 }}</ref>

====PlanPerfect====
Another program distributed through WordPerfect Corporation was PlanPerfect, a spreadsheet application. The first version with that name was reviewed in ''InfoWorld'' magazine in September 1987.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43 |first = John |last = Walkenbach |title = Spreadsheet Interface Plan Falls Short of Perfect |magazine = InfoWorld |date = September 14, 1987 |publisher = InfoWorld Media Group |via = Google Books |pages = 43,45,47 |volume = 9 |issue = 36 }}</ref>