Editing WordPerfect (section)

===History===
WordPerfect was late in coming to market with a Windows version. '''WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows''', introduced in 1991, had to be installed from DOS and was largely unpopular due to serious stability issues. The first mature version, '''WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows''', was released in November 1992<ref name=WP60PC.NYT/> and '''WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows''' was released in 1993.  By the time WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows was introduced, Microsoft Word for Windows version 2 had been on the market for over a year and had received its third interim release, v2.0c.

WordPerfect's function-key-centered user interface did not adapt well to the new paradigm of a mouse and pull-down menus, especially with many of WordPerfect's standard key combinations overridden by incompatible keyboard shortcuts that Windows itself used; for example, Alt-F4 became ''Exit Program'', as opposed to WordPerfect's ''Block Text''. The DOS version's impressive arsenal of finely tuned printer drivers was also rendered obsolete by Windows' use of its own printer device drivers.