My kingdom for a "Reveal Codes" feature

I miss WordPerfect.  Prior to WordPerfect 7, at least, the program did what I wanted it to do and did it quickly and efficiently -- with little if any mouse use required.  And if anything -- anything at all -- didn’t look quite right, you could easily and quickly find and eliminate the problem using the “Reveal Codes” feature. Oh, Reveal Codes was wonderful.

More recent word processors, on the other hand?  Maddening.

Just try to add a hyperlink to text in Pages, Apple’s word processing program.  Let’s say you want the word “Pages” to link to www.applejustworks.com.  You have to select the word “Pages,” then go to Insert > Hyperlink > Webpage, at which point an Inspector window pops up.  Then you have to click in the URL field and enter www.applejustworks.com.  Then you have to close the inspector window and click back to your document.

But, good news: You can map a keystroke combination to Insert > Hyperlink > Webpage using System Preferences | Keyboard, right?  Sure, that works, and I’ve mapped Command-K.  So I highlight the word “Pages,” press Command-K, and ... now I have to click over into the Inspector window -- why isn’t it already active? I obviously want to use it, otherwise I wouldn’t have brought the damn thing up -- and click in the URL field, enter my URL, close the inspector, and click back into my document.

What.  The.  Hell?

Here’s what should happen: I highlight my text and press Control-K, a box pops up with a field for the URL -- a field that is already active, so all I need to do is type (or paste) in the URL and press enter, and I’m right back in my document.  Easy!  And that’s the way it works in Apple’s Mail program, so I know they’re capable of it.