Corel Presentations

Revision as of 20:12, 27 August 2022

Corel Presentations was originally WordPerfect Presentations, purchased by Corel in January 1996 when they purchased PerfectOffice. Replaced DrawPerfect^[1]. Not to be confused with CorelSHOW which also uses the .SHW extension.^[2]

File Identification

Early SHW and MST (Masters) used the WordPerfect standard file format. Beginning with Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 and continuing with the current 2020 version, the file format uses an OLE container.^[3] MST files are Master files and PRT is a Template file.

• WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 (Based on WordPerfect file format, beginning with ascii .WPC)
• WordPerfect/Corel Presentations 3.0 (Based on WordPerfect file format, beginning with ascii .WPC) fmt/878
• Corel Presentations 7.0 through version 2020 (Based on the "OLE2" document container format) fmt/877

Software & Sample Files

• WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for Windows Installer
• Sample Corel Presentations 7 file
• Sample Corel Presentations 8 file
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/corelPresentations/

References

1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=PjsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA84&dq=WordPerfect%20Presentations&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Presentations
3. ↑ https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005407707-CorelDRAW-Graphics-Suite-X8-Supported-file-formats