Editing WordPerfect (section)

===Function keys===
Like its 1970s predecessor [[Emacs]] and mid-1980s competitor [[MultiMate]], WordPerfect used almost every possible combination of [[function key]]s with [[Control key|Ctrl]], [[Alt key|Alt]], and [[Shift key|Shift]] modifiers, and the Ctrl-Alt, Shift-Alt, and Shift-Ctrl double modifiers, unlike early versions of [[WordStar]], which used only Ctrl.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.pcjs.org/disks/pcx86/apps/other/wordstar |title = Wordstar "keytop" stickers |quote = in case we weren't quite sagacious enough to memorize all of WordStar's one-key Ctrl command }}</ref>

WordPerfect used F3 instead of F1 for ''Help'',<ref>{{cite web |title = WordPerfect 5.1 |quote = WordPerfect 5.1 gives you help when you press F3 |url = http://www.studymore.org.uk/wp51.htm }}</ref> F1 instead of Esc for ''Cancel'', and Esc for ''Repeat'' (though a configuration option in later versions allowed these functions to be rotated to locations that later became more standard).

The extensive number of key combinations are now one of WP's most popular features among its regular "[[power user]]s" such as legal secretaries, paralegals and attorneys.