![]() Because so many people knew them, other software vendors adopted them too. ![]() It wasn’t just WordStar that used these commands. And there were commands in WordStar 4 that you used so much that they became like an involuntary spasm – such as ^B to reformat a paragraph after you’d made a change to it (the text didn’t reflow automatically). To this day, when I want to save and close a file I find my fingers twitching towards the ^K-D combination. The printed function key strip was an essential part of the package.īut by that time, WordStar’s hotkey commands had become second nature, burned deep into my muscle memory. Most of WordPerfect’s features were accessed via function keys. Eventually, MicroPro bought NewWord and re-released it as WordStar 4.Įventually, and for reasons shrouded in the mists of time, I switched to WordPerfect which, along with Microsoft’s Word, had started to eclipse WordStar as the de facto word processor in organisations. ![]() ![]() In fact, I really cut my teeth on NewWord, a clone of WordStar that was actually ahead in terms of development and features. The opening screen of WordStar 4 – running on FreeDOS.įor me, version 4 is the classic WordStar. ![]()
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