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Article #6758Re: Word 5 Wishes
From: Dennis H Lippert
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 16:17
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 16:17
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In article <1991Jan16.132428.11242@engin.umich.edu> John_Mansfield@emal.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes:
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>How about some compliance with the standard human interface of the macintosh?
AMEN. I work in a "public" computing lab here at Pitt. The school offers
"Intro to MS Word" classes, but they don't teach enough. The burden of many
simple features is left to us. I personally prefer MacWrite II for this
kind of environment.. it can do everything a college student has to do and more.
But enough preaching. What I'd like to see is the demise of "Short Menus."
It's a neat idea... but most of a novice user's questions are answered by a
change to full menus. We could change the default... but on public machines
it'd soon get out of hand ("Why's my document printing with 3 inch margins?")
:-) -but it WOULD happen!
You have to realize, our prefs files are nuked by temperament (which, by the
way, can scare the heck out of a new user!... kaboom!).
Just my input...
Dennis Lippert- macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu
a person who believes that Excel is Microsoft's sole asset right now...
( NO FLAMES!!!! )
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