

If you choose Compatibility, your exported file will be saved as a bitmap in the PNG file format. Next, choose either Compatibility or Editing in the Graphic Should Be Best Suited For drop-down. If your customer uses Microsoft Office, choose that in the Export To drop-down. Navigate to where you want to save your file, give it a name in the File Name field, click Save, and you are done. Click OK and the now-familiar Save As dialog appears with Corel WordPerfect Graphic already selected in the Save As Type drop-down. The Estimated File Size of the saved WPG file appears at the bottom of the dialog. Your exported file will be saved as a WordPerfect Graphics (WPG) file.

If your customer is using Corel WordPerfect Office, choose that in the Export To drop- down list, and all other options gray out.

Also, ask yourself (and your coworker receiving the file): Will you edit this file using the Office suite’s tools, or will you just place it in their document as finished work? You also should know what the final destination for their document will be: an onscreen presentation or on the Web, printing to a low-resolution desktop printer or to a professional, commercial printer. The answer to this question determines which file format you choose in the Export To drop-down list. First, you need to know which Office suite they will be using the graphics file with: Corel’s or Microsoft’s. To make good choices here, you really need to know what your customer is likely to do with the file. The drop-down lists at the top of the dialog are where you make some preparations for the intended use of the exported graphic. Bitmaps you imported into your original document that contained transparent backgrounds will retain the transparent areas. Vector objects and text have no background, but any bitmaps you created from vector objects will have a white background around them unless you explicitly checked the Transparent Background check box in the Convert To Bitmap dialog when converting the object for export. The gray checkerboard background to the preview area corresponds to areas of transparency. On the other hand, if you have nothing selected, everything you have on the page and partially on the page is what is saved by the Export For Office process. In the Export For Office process, if you have any object(s) selected before you open the dialog, only the objects you had selected appear in the preview window. And unlike with the Export dialog, there is no Selected Only check box however, you can, indeed, export a selected object only. If you have a multi-page document that you want to export, you’ll need to do this page by page. Export For Office cannot export multiple pages it only works with the page you have active at the time you opened the dialog.
