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Changed reference to differences between WPDOS and WPWin macro systems.
The article included this, about WPWin's Classic mode, detailing alleged differences between the WPDOS macro system and that of WPWin:

<< As an example, a WP-DOS 5 macro could search for particular text, turn select-mode on, and then search backward or forward for other text. Everything from the turn-on location to the new location would be highlighted and could then be deleted, copied, replaced, etc. This behavior and functionality has not yet been replicated in any Windows-based version of WordPerfect. >>

which is not true. Any WPWin version, at least from v8, can do this. In WPWin, I recorded this macro. You do not need to be a WP macro aficionado to see that the lines represent keystrokes. And that snippet performs exactly the events listed in the original account, and the exit state is as specified in the original account.

PosDocTop

SearchString (StrgToLookFor: "stage")

SearchNext (SearchMode: Regular!)

SearchString (StrgToLookFor: "civic")

MatchExtendSelection

SearchPrevious (SearchMode: Regular!)

- I recast the "differences" text and additionally noted aspects of WPWin that survive a switch to Classic Mode.

Roy Lewis (talk) 17:48, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

WordPerfect and Borland
WordPerfect was never sold to Borland. On the contrary, WordPerfect bought the Quattro spreadsheet from Borland and tried to bundle it into the WordPerfect Office suite.Hayford Peirce 01:18, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Actually, reverse the names of the players. Borland marketed its programs plus WP Corp's WordPerfect as a suite, before eventually Borland sold its products (to whom, I'm not sure... I don't know if this was before or after Novell bought the package). SterlingNorth

That's correct; "Borland Office" was a package sold by Borland, including WP (licensed from WPCorp) as its word processor, as Borland's word processor (Sprint) had no market share to speak of. At the time Borland was gearing up to compete product-for-product with MS and Lotus, and probably hoped to buy WP eventually. Then Novell stepped in with the same hopeless goal (after all, they already had DR-DOS and Netware to compete with MS-DOS and NT), and bought out both companies' officeware. Tverbeek 02:30, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Borland was indeed a fairly strong player at the time. I think what WPC had planned on doing was acquiring Borland, or at least a merger. Yes, they bought Quattro (to replace the lackluster PlanPerfect--which was terrific if you were a power WP user). However, they also bought Paradox, which was more powerful and flexible than DataPerfect. DataPerfect was pretty good, but it lacked programming concepts of languages (like recursion and looping). Our team was tasked with coming up with ways of developing a LOT of DP setups that did something it wasn't really designed to do. Once all this was complete, Novell came along. This really isn't surprising since they were a couple of miles apart and had worked quite cooperatively from the beginning. WPC wrote apps primarily to Netware and I'm sure Novell provided them with deeply discounted file and print server licenses (if only for development).DieselRam (talk) 00:42, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

The article indicates that Word perfect Office 2000 contains version 9 of the suite including Paradox 9. After reading this I invested money in purchasing Word perfect office 2009 for the sole purpose of acquiring Paradox Version 9. I have the installer open currently, I see the BDE engine version 5, Quatro, and other items, even clip art, but no Paradox version at all. Please clarify how to install it or remove the statement from the article. KF