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From: nfs@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
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Date: 9 Jun 89 12:40:34 GMT
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>The default answer to the "Exit WP?" prompt is also a non-intuitive
>"N". Is there any logic behind this? I vote for WP as the most counter-
>intuitively designed word processor on the market (aside from Edlin
>perhaps). Doesn't anyone from WP read the net?
>

You should realize that most WordPerfect copies are not installed for
the garden variety hacker, who expects software to do what she says.
WordPerfect installations are typically in a secretary's PC.  The fastest
way to save a document and start fresh on a new one is to type F7, have
the old document saved (BY DEFAULT) and then continue on a new document
(BY DEFAULT).  This is not counterintuitive; it actually speeds work up.

I don't use WordPerfect this way, since I usually have just one document
to write at a time, but a great number of its users do.  The interface
is admittedly odd for a lot of people, but for most it makes perfect sense.

Norbert