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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Message-ID: <554@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 16:03:56 GMT
References: <353@hal.UUCP> <8619@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro)
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Organization: Encore Computer, San Diego (was Gould/GSD, soon to be extinct)
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In article <8619@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie
Mikesell) writes (regarding WordPerfect):
>The key mapping is certainly non-intuitive, but you really only have to
>remember that F3 is the help key.
               ^^
This points out one of the problems with the non-intuitive product
design.  While not a standard, a quite common convention of PC
software is the use of F1 as the help key.  I'd really be interested
in knowing why the designer (or design team) of WP chose to go with an
arbitrarily different selection.


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Michael Shapiro, Encore Computer Corporation (formerly Gould/GSD)
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