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Article #35337Re: Disabled Menu Items -- Cons and Pros
From: Shirley Kehr
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1988 16:56
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1988 16:56
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In article <11407@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes: <An example of where a single window is appropriate for an operation is <the split-window option in Word. Cutting and pasting between two <sections of the same document is much much faster using a split window <than it would be using two windows. Any time I do extensive <cut-and-paste between two separate documents I wish there were some <way to get both docs into a split window like this! >Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755 This is exactly how you get sucked into buying more and more equipment. I was very happy with the SE at my former employers. After seeing the original big screens at FileNet (MegaScreen), I went back and told my boss they were harder to read than the SE screen and I didn't want one. Still, my friends at FileNet said that it was really hard to go back to the small screen when they took their SEs home for the weekend. Now that I'm at FileNet, I "had to" accept a big screen. (:-) The first day I used it, I finally understood what they meant when I pulled those two documents up on the screen side by side in MultiFinder and happily clicked away transferring text from one side of the screen (one document) to the other side (other document). On a Mac II it was just as fast as transferring text from one part of a split window to the other - at least I was not aware of waiting. The moral of the story is: don't try addictive hardware until you're ready to buy it. Shirley kehr
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!oliveb!felix!kehr From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Disabled Menu Items -- Cons and Pros Message-ID: <74598@felix.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 88 16:56:40 GMT References: <7743@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <6000@hoptoad.uucp> <6001@hoptoad.uucp> <6004@hoptoad.uucp> <11407@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 30