by that fall was more than double that of the second most-popular word processor, and that year MicroPro had 10% of the personal computer software market. By 1984, the year it held an initial public offering, MicroPro was the world's largest software company with 23% of the word processor market.

A manual that PC Magazine described as "incredibly inadequate" and "a looseleaf nightmare" led many authors to publish replacements. One of them, Introduction