WordStar had different hotkeys (which were adopted by many other programs due to WordStar being the #1 word processing program in the IBM PC's infancy). I don't remember the details, it's been 20 years or more since I used it, but there was some logic to the hotkeys. The letters were related to the action performed and were reasonably easy to remember. WordPerfect's were more or less random.


>Didn't some of the key combinations come from WordStar? Or was it the other way around? Can't recall which came first, but I think it was WordStar. I know someone who still uses an old box with that installed. Says that all they want to do is type manuscripts and it works just fine thank-you-very-much.
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>>The category is not "Very popular programs I disliked intensely" but if it were, WordPerfect, any version, would come to mind instantly. The hotkeys -- of course it had no mouse support back then -- drove me the most nuts. They seemed completely bizarre. Almost random, and that's no compliment. Even the most basic actions had weird hotkeys that could only be mastered by rote memorization. What was save, Shift-F7? Help was something like Shift-F3. I have mercifully forgotten the exact details but the general sense of hotkey dyslexia is accurate. (And to anyone who wants to refresh my memory -- PLEASE don't! LOL). Not being flippant here -- I seriously think its popularity stemmed in part from the unwillingness of users who had gone through the pain of memorizing weird WP keystrokes to learn a different program.
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>>My new Dell came with a preinstalled copy of the latest WordPerfect. You can probably guess how long it took me to uninstall it into binary oblivion, sight unseen.
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>>>WordImperfect 6.0 was a pig.
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>>>>I'm lucky, I never had to use Lotus Notes.
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>>>>IMO, here are the biggest pieces of garbage I had to use:
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>>>>dBase IV (1.0)
>>>>Clipper 5.0
>>>>Any the DOS versions of MS Word
>>>>QuickBasic 3.0 (it "broke" alot of QB 2.0 code)
>>>>AOL (any version)
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>>>>Kevin