Editing WordPerfect (section)

====Reveal codes====
[[Image:Wordperfect steuerzeichen.jpg|thumb|right|The Reveal Codes feature in WordPerfect]]
Present since the earliest versions of WordPerfect, the Reveal Codes feature distinguishes it from other word processors; Microsoft Word's equivalent is much less powerful.<ref name="RevCo.NYT"/>  It displays and allows editing the codes, reduces retyping, and enables easy formatting changes.<ref name="Brinkley.NYT2K"/> It is a second editing screen that can be toggled open and closed, and sized as desired.

The codes for formatting and locating text are displayed, interspersed with tags and the occasional objects, with the tags and objects represented by named tokens. This provides a more detailed view to troubleshoot problems than with styles-based word processors, and object tokens can be clicked with a pointing device to directly open the configuration editor for the particular object type, e.g. clicking on a style token brings up the style editor with the particular style type displayed. WordPerfect had this feature already in its DOS incarnations.