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Article #41987Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 15:42
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 15:42
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In article <30155@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
|Things like extending selections based on the size of the first selection
|(double-click to select a word, then every extension will also be by word
|boundaries); being able to type 'y' or 'n' to a dialog instead of having to
|click the 'yes' or 'no' buttons; little things -- but things that I keep
Nothing new here; double clicks extending drags by word sized
increments are just about everywhere now, even plain old MacOS
TextEdit! It even works in the Standard File dialog in the item for
the file name. I agree about the 'y' and 'n', but its use is
spreading; MORE provides it, as do one or two other things (can't
recall for sure what without going back to try... maybe Excel? maybe
MPW?).
/JBL
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Summary: Not new with word Message-ID: <39547@bbn.COM> Date: 5 May 89 15:42:41 GMT References: <1860@aucs.UUCP> <30155@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 20