WordPerfect

What works

File menu (with enhanced file dialogues disabled)

New - New From Project - New XML Document - Open - Close - Save - Save As
Properties
Page Setup - Print - Print Preview - Publish To
Recent File List
Exit

Edit menu

Undo - Redo - Undo/Redo History
Cut - Copy - Paste - Paste Special
Append - Repeat Next Action - Convert Case - Select
Edit Graphic Box - Edit Graphic Line
Find and Replace - Go To

View menu

Draft - Page - Two Pages - Preview in Browser
Document Map - Refresh
Toolbars - Application Bar - Ruler - Hide Bars
Guidelines - Shadow Cursor
Graphics - Table Guidelines - Hidden Text - Show - Variables - Reveal Codes
Zoom

Insert menu

Symbol - Date/Time - Outline/Bullets & Numbering - Variable
Header/Footer - Footnote/Endnote - Watermark
Graphics (clipart) - Line - Shapes - Text Box
Comment - Sound
Spreadsheet/Database - Other - File - New Page

Format menu

Font - Line - Paragraph - Column - Page
Justification - Margins - Make It Fit - Keep Text Together - Typesetting
Labels
QuickFormat - Graphic Styles - Styles

Table menu

Create
Format - Numeric Format - SpeedFormat - Borders/Fill
Insert - Delete - Size Column to Fit - Equal Column Widths - Join - Split - Convert
Names - Calculate - Copy Formula - Quick Fill - Quick Sum
Row/Col Indicators - Formula Tool Bar

Tools menu

Spell Checker - Gramatik - Thesaurus - Dictionary
QuickCorrect - QuickWords - Word Count/Info - Proofread - Language
Highlight
Bookmark
Settings

Window menu

Cascade
Windows List

Help menu

PerfectExpert - Corel on the Web - Microsoft Word Help - About WordPerfect

What does not

File menu (with enhanced file dialogues enabled)

Open [crashed] - Save As [crashed]
Signature [crashed]

Insert menu

Gaphics (TextArt)
Chart
Equation
Object

Format menu

Envelope [crashed]

Tools menu

Address Book - Sort
Hyperlink

Window menu

Tile Top to Bottom - Tile Side by Side

Help menu

Help Topics - Macro Commands - CorelTUTOR

Workarounds

What was not tested

File menu

Document
Send To

Edit menu

Links - Object

Tools menu

Macro - Template Macro - Visual Basic
Merge - Align and Distribute
Legal Tools - Reference

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

When more than one document window is open, the X in the top right hand corner of the first window was disabled. Appeared to work equally well with Microsoft Word format documents but this was not tested thoroughly.

If WordPerfect hangs on first startup see the WordPerfect Office 11 AppDB entry for the note "Apparent Hang with only Splash Screen Displayed" for guidance on how to reveal a message box hidden behind a splash screen.

If you reveal a message box that reads:

Entrust initialization file not found: C:\Windows\Entrust.ini

then you have installed the Entrust Security Integration option. If you do not know what this is you almost certainly do not want it.

Run the WordPerfect Office install program again and modify the installation so the Entrust Security Integration is set to "don't install" and try again. If this does not work, read the WordPerfect Office 11 HowTo - Installation Guidelines and reinstall.

This occurs because a registry entry describing the position and size of the MDI window is corrupt.

You can work round this by starting the application a second time but a better approach is to delete the offending registry entry before you launch WordPerfect.

The following shell script should do the trick:

#!/bin/sh
ver=11;
wp="Software\\Corel\\WordPerfect";
root="HKEY_CURRENT_USER";
wine regedit /D "${root}\\${wp}\\${ver}\\MDI Frame Position";
exit;

By default, WordPerfect uses 'enhanced' (Explorer-like) file dialogues. These do not work under Wine. WordPerfect will probably crash opening an existing document or saving a new document unless the enhanced dialogues are disabled first.

Start WordPerfect. Select Settings... under the Tools menu. Select Files... Uncheck the "Use enhanced file dialogs" box. Click OK. Click Close.

File > Save As (or File > Save of a new document) presents a dialogue window with a drop-down list that allow you to select the format in which the document is to be saved.

This list may be empty. All documents saved so far in these circumstances have been corrupt beyond further use. Cancelling the dialogue and trying again has been known to work.

For the save of a new document, your chances of success are greater if you use File > Save As instead of File > Save.