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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Message-ID: <8684@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Jun 89 15:09:24 GMT
References: <353@hal.UUCP> <8619@chinet.chi.il.us> <554@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <554@rb-dc1.UUCP> shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro) writes:

>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.

Perhaps they were afraid of being hit with a "look-and-feel" lawsuit
by you-know-who.  Allowing user key mappings avoids the issue nicely.



Les Mikesell