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Re: Undecipherable Icons (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)

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From: Steve Hix
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 17:16
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In article <18038@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Danno) writes:
> 
> Ooo ooo!  Can I make a nomination in the "undecipherable icons" category??
> 
> How about some of the icons Microsoft used for the keyboard equivalents of
> menu commands?  "Option" is defined as split-level lines? Huh?  I still
> haven't figured out one of them: the key-equivalent of "Plain for style" is
> command-shift-<bracket that fell over>.  Where is this key?? (I do have the
> extended keyboard, if some of you are not seeing this displayed as an
> equivalent.)

Look at your "6" key.  The character above it is called a caret.

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