That's what you are going to get if you install Ormandy's revenant 1990s application. Desperate users even photocopied the thing, hand-trimmed and sellotaped together the result and stuck it on. This template acted as a sort of informal copy-protection: if you didn't have one, the app was almost inoperable. It was complicated, and even experienced users often referred to a keyboard template – a piece of cardboard you placed on your keyboard, which surrounded the function keys and showed reminders of what they all did. Each key had a separate meaning on its own, or with Shift, Alt or Ctrl, and with combinations of Shift and Alt and Ctrl. Up until WordPerfect 5, the program had a very idiosyncratic user interface which made heavy use of the function keys. WordPerfect 7 for UNIX, running perfectly happily in a Linux terminal in 2022
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