On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:30:17 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:02:26 -0000 (UTC)
> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> my absolute favourite wordprocessor would still be Microsoft Word for
>> DOS because, again, you could do everything without taking your hands
>> from the keyboard and its use of function keys was really well thought
>> out  - much better that the scrambled mess that was WordPerfect - and
>> Word was faster too.
>
>  I vastly preferred WordPerfect - provided you had a keyboard with
> function keys to the left and control next to A - then that apparent
> mess turns into a really efficient layout that was surprisingly easy to
> remember.

The thing I really liked about Word for DOS was stuff like one of the
function keys, F4 IIRC, which did more each time you hit it: 1st click
selected the whole word, 2nd click selected the whole sentence and 3rd
click selected the whole paragraph. Plus, it didn't have or need the
'reveal codes' mode that everybody needed use to disentangle a WordPerfect
document sooner or later. Of course, I'm talking about the original WP
for DOS with its famous almost blank initial screen which reduced more
than one secretary to tears, not the Windows version.


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