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Corel Releases Corel Office Professional 7 - Medical Edition.


OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1997--(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).

2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE).
 COS., NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
 COSFF.) Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. , in cooperation with Williams & Wilkins, A Waverly Company, has released a new Medical Edition of its Corel Office A suite of applications for Windows from Corel that was superseded by Corel WordPerfect Suite. See WordPerfect Office.  Professional 7. The suite is a specialized software package customized to meet the needs of the healthcare professional. The suite was developed to take full advantage of the speed of Windows(R)95, and includes new, fully integrated 32- bit versions of Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation.  7, Corel Quattro Pro See Quattro Pro.  7 and Corel Presentations Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation-graphics program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org's Impress. The current release, version X3 (Release 13 internally), is available only as part of the Corel WordPerfect Office  7 together with the Stedman(R)'s Electronic Medical Dictionary A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The three major English language medical dictionaries are Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's medical dictionaries.  and Stedman(R)'s Plus Spell Checker A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly. . This powerful integrated package provides the ideal word-processing solution for healthcare workers, medical transcriptionists, office managers or allied health professionals.

"Corel Office Professional 7 - Medical Edition provides a well-rounded collection of business management solutions and medical-specific software fully customized for the medical professional," says Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.

Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc.
, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "This state-of-the-art package includes the popular Stedman(R)'s Electronic Medical Dictionary 3.0 and Stedman(R)'s Plus 4.0 spell checker comprising over 300,000 medical terms. Corel Office Professional 7 - Medical Edition offers the widest range of choices for customization and automation, along with a new dimension in power, functionality and Internet support."

Joan Caldwell, vice-president and publisher of the Stedman's Medical Dictionary family of products says that "we are in the business of enhancing our customer's accuracy and speed by providing seamless medical spell checking and authoritative medical word resources. The Corel Office Professional 7 - Medical Edition is the logical choice for anyone preparing health care-related documents be they scientific publications, educational materials, patient records, insurance forms, medical legal briefs Legal Briefs is an interactive television program aired on CablePulse24 and CourtTV Canada, hosted by Lorne Honickman, a lawyer and journalist, as he discusses the ins & outs of the Canadian legal system and provides free legal advice. , etc."

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 Fred Fusting, president of the Williams & Wilkins Professional Learning Systems division, "WordPerfect has for years been the word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and  application of choice in medicine, and our spell checker and electronic dictionary have been "natural" add-ons. Now, users of the Medical Edition of Office Professional 7 will find the Stedman's products already loaded and ready to go."

Medical Components in the Professional Medical Suite include:

- Stedman(R)'s Electronic Medical Dictionary 3.0 - Reference over 100,000 medical and pharmaceutical terms.

- Stedman(R)'s Plus 4.0 spell checker - Spell check over 343,000 medical words and terms.

- 20 QuickTasks(TM) (23 Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) 7 templates) for healthcare - Includes templates for patient records, forms for patient care and general office management.

- Template and style guides for research paper submissions - Style guides for over 600 healthcare journals.

- 20 medical master templates for Corel(R) Presentations(TM) 7

- 30 medical image watermarks

- Additional medical clipart and medical illustration images

- Additional QuickConnect Internet links - Link to National Library of Medicine, Corel Medical Series web page and Corel Photo Studio.

Also included are the following core applications and technologies:

- Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) 7 - Innovative new features in Corel WordPerfect 7, along with its Internet capabilities continue to make it the word processor of choice.

- Corel(R) Quattro(R) Pro 7 - Corel's award-winning spreadsheet will turn expense reports and purchase orders into a breeze. Originate balance sheets, build pie or area charts, and use graphics to add class to numerical data.

- Corel(R) Presentations(TM) 7 - Corel Presentations 7 puts the Internet to work and makes it easy to quickly create effective presentations with less effort.

- Envoy(TM) 7 - Allows for electronic distribution of formatted documents. New Envoy-to-Internet linking, file-to-file linking, and Bitstream(TM) font embedding make Envoy 7 an easy and versatile electronic publishing tool.

- InfoCentral(TM) 7 - A highly customizable and dynamic system for managing information. One of its strongest features is its ability to connect information with other applications and related files such as documents, faxes, and phone and e-mail messages.

- DAD(TM) (Desktop Application Director)

- Corel Barista barista
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(TM) - A core technology developed by Corel, Barista(TM) lets users use WordPerfect 7, Quattro Pro 7 and Presentations 7 to create documents, then convert them to the Java(TM) language with no programming required.

- QuickTasks(TM) - With the click of the mouse you can write a letter, create a memo or prepare a budget.

Value-Added Features and Applications:

- Paradox(R) 7 - Borland's updated version of this world-renowned relational database has the data handling power to effectively complete enterprise-wide tasks, build applications and manage large amounts of information.

- CorelFLOW(TM) 3 - The most powerful diagraming software on the market includes all the tools needed to communicate ideas effectively.

- CorelDRAW(TM) 6 (illustration module) - This award-winning comprehensive vector-based drawing application includes features such as the polygon, knife, panning and spiral tools; roll-up customization; improved layer control; and seamless texture fills.

- Corel(R) A to Z - A comprehensive online reference library that includes a dictionary, encyclopedia and more. - Corel(R) VisualDTD

- Netscape Navigator(TM) Internet browser - Surf the net To browse the Internet. The most common Internet browsing today is done on the Web. Before the Web, the Internet was "surfed" via Archie, Gopher, WAIS and other search facilities. See surfing and how to access the Internet.  with this leading Internet client software.

- Quick View Plus(R) - View files and transfer them between applications.

- IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) VoiceType(TM) Control - Use with a microphone and your voice to navigate and activate each core application's graphic user interface See GUI. .

- 10,000+ clipart images

- 200 photos

- 59 instructional demos

Plus:

- Corel(R) Screen Saver

- Sidekick(TM) 95 - The best-selling personal organizer ever, Starfish Software's Sidekick(TM) for Windows(R)95 provides instant access to important personal and professional information from any Windows-based application.

- Dashboard(TM) 95 - Starfish Software's Dashboard(TM) 95 holds up to 64 applications that can be opened with a mouse-click.

- Corel(R) Time Line(R) - A professional project management system based on Time Line Solution's Time Line(TM).

- 1,000 top-quality fonts

System Requirements and Pricing:

Corel Office Professional 7 - Medical Edition ships with a suggested retail price of $449 US, with upgrades available for $229 U.S. (Dealers may sell for less.) The suite requires 16MB RAM, 162 MB of hard disk space for a typical installation (27 MB for medical components), a PC 486/66 or higher, Windows(R)95, Windows(R) NT 3.51 or 4.0, a double-speed CD-ROM drive and a VGA monitor.

Corel Corporation

Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel(R) Office Professional, CorelVIDEO(TM), CorelCAD(TM) and over 50 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including: Windows, Macintosh(R), UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
, MS-DOS MS-DOS
 in full Microsoft Disk Operating System

Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year.
 and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE)

Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options.
 (symbol-COS) and on NASDAQ- National Market System (symbol-COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://www.corel.com .

Williams & Wilkins

Williams & Wilkins is a leading international publisher of print and electronic media in the fields of medicine, nursing and related health sciences. Headquartered in Baltimore, MD, it has offices in London, Munich, Paris, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires and Sydney. The parent company, Waverly, Inc., is a public company traded on NASDAQ (symbol-WAVR). Waverly's web site is www.wwilkins.com .

Corel and WordPerfect are registered trademarks and CorelDRAW, CorelVIDEO and CorelCAD are trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. All products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Corel Corporation

Daniela Gaudert, 613/728-0826 x1333

danielag@corel.com

or

Corel Corporation

Carrie Bendzsa, 613/728-0826 x1524

carriebe@corel.com

or

Williams & Wilkins Press Contact

Elizabeth Haigh, 410/528-4260

ehaig@wwilkins.com
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