I began working at WordPerfect Corporation in June 1988, just after the release of WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS. I worked in technical support for four and a half years in the Printer, Macros and Graphics, and Large Accounts support groups, and earned the title of Senior Support Technician.

There were no good technical manuals on macros or merges available at the time from any source, including WordPerfect Corporation itself. So to help myself, my coworkers and WordPerfect customers, I decided to write my own learning guide for macros, knowing I'd have to learn an awful lot myself in order to pull it off. My first volume, WordPerfect 5.1 Advanced Macro Programming: A Learning Guide was published in 1991.

In March 1993, while WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS was in the planning stages, I was transferred to Coach Development, where I helped implement the macro-based Coaching system for WordPerfect 6.0/6.1 for DOS, WordPerfect 6.0/6.1/7.0 for Windows and GroupWise 4.1 for Windows. After Novell acquired WordPerfect Corporation, I was given the additional assignments of designing and developing the PerfectOffice 3.0 QuickTour, and the Transition Advisor/Upgrade Expert in WPWin 6.0/6.1/7.

During this time, I also completed my macros workbooks for WP 6.0 for DOS and WPWin 6.0, then later updated each of these to include the newer versions of WordPerfect.

Complementing my work at WordPerfect Corp., I worked for many years as a freelance writer and technical editor for IVY International Communications, publishers of WordPerfect Magazine. I wrote the Q&A column for two years for that publication, and wrote the Q&A columns for the WordPerfect 7 Suite Expert Newsletter and the WordPerfect Suite Expert Newsletter for over a year. I also wrote the Macros column for WordPerfect Magazine for several months and published several feature articles in the same publication.

After Corel laid off all the WP employees, I did Macro consulting and worked at various small software companies, creating Windows Help files, installation programs, writing documentation, testing software, creating data entry and document assembly systems in the the publishing and legal fields. I was married in April 2002 and acquired four children with that marriage. I now spend most of my time being a mom, and do part time WordPerfect consulting during spare hours.

Julie Jeppson Wright

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