Thanks Amos,

I do agree with his thinking - and as you rightly say, Microsoft did try to follow it.

Did you ever use Wordperfect for DOS? Perhaps other versions were as bad but I never used them. By the time I had got to use it (5?), F1 was a pretty standard help key for applications but they used F11 - or was it Escape? - I really can't remember except to say that nothing was "standard".

I seem to remember many people liking the package (I think it was #1 WP program over here) and what it could do but I hated it because of its interface - I used a range of software and didn't want to remember "help on this is this key, help on that is xxx....", I just wanted to be able to learn enough to survive and do what I needed to and not to bother with what to me where needless differences (I guess if I was a secretary purely Word processing I would have thought differently).

Jon