Wordstar

Designed to work in conjunction with CtrlPlus, the Command Emulator adds many more WordStar commands to MS Word than CtrlPlus by itself, and also changes Word 97-XP's menus to be more like those of WordStar 7.0 for DOS, the last DOS version of WordStar.

To use a program such as Wordstar with more than one printer, a separate version of Wordstar had to be prepared, and one had to load the Wordstar version that corresponded to the printer selected (and exiting and reloading to change printers).

Although WordStar 2000 was meant as the successor to WordStar, it never gained substantial market share.

His replacements canceled the promising office suite Starburst, purchased a WordStar clone, and used it as the basis of WordStar 2000, released in December 1984.

WordStar 2000 had a user interface that was substantially different from the original WordStar, citation and the company did little to advertise this.

WordStar 2000 supported features such as disk directories, but lacked compatibility with the file formats of existing WordStar versions and also made numerous unpopular changes to the interface.

I’m not going all the way back to things like WordStar (which, not for nothing, predates me by quite a while).

Advertisements stated that "Anyone with WordStar experience won't even have to read NewWord's manuals.

An agreement was made with MicroPro to develop a version of WordStar that supported both English and Hebrew input.

Because FCB compatibility has not been maintained, WordStar 3.x will not function properly on modern versions of Windows.

By late 1984 the company admitted, according to the magazine, that WordStar's reputation for power was fading, and by early 1985 its sales had decreased for four quarters while those of Multimate and Samna increased.

By May 1983 BYTE magazine called WordStar "without a doubt the best-known and probably the most widely used personal computer word-processing program".

By that point, MicroPro had dropped the generic MS-DOS WordStar and version 4.0 was exclusively for IBM compatibles.

Column Mode editing was probably unique to WordStar.

File types WordStar identified files as either "document" or "nondocument," which led to some confusion among users.

For example, Ctrl+K? was WordStar's word count command and Ctrl+QL was its spell check command.

For several years Hebrew-English WordStar was the de facto WYSIWYG word processor leader until, inevitably, it was ousted by younger competitors.

Installation Installation of early versions of WordStar, especially for CP/M, was very different from the approach of modern programs.

It was very similar to WordStar.

More conflict between MicroPro's two factions delayed WordStar 5.0 until late 1988, again hurting the program's sales.