Corel Presentations

File Format
Name	Corel Presentations
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Presentation Corel Presentations
Extension(s)	.shw, .mst
PRONOM	fmt/877, fmt/878
Released	~1992

Corel Presentations was originally WordPerfect Presentations, purchased by Corel in January 1996 when they purchased PerfectOffice. Not to be confused with CorelSHOW which also uses the .SHW extension.

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.

• 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)
• Corel Presentations 7.0 through version 2020 (Based on the "OLE2" document container format)

Sample Files

• Sample Corel Presentations 7 file
• Sample Corel Presentations 8 file