Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!esquire!esquire.dpw.com From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word Change Problem Message-ID: <2659@esquire.dpw.com> Date: 15 Sep 90 16:22:11 GMT References: <1990Sep10.162820.2790@csc.anu.oz> Sender: news@DPW.COM Reply-To: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 39 In-reply-to: palmer@arrester.caltech.edu (David Palmer) In article , palmer@arrester (David Palmer) writes: >Instead of pasting the clipboard into the change box (which just >puts the characters, without styles, into the box) type ^c, (c >for clipboard.) That gives you the equivalent of selecting what you're >looking for, and then pasting. > >Don't you lazy people ever read the 454 page >manual before you start running a program? These are COMPUTERS >for Pete's sake! You wouldn't do brain surgery without checking >a few medical texts out of the library first, you don't start >lion taming before reading a book about it, you don't learn to put >out oil well fires by trial and error. Why do people think they can >use a word processor without years of training? Boy, I sure hope the above was meant with lots of smileys... This is comp.sys.mac, you know. I thought the whole point of the Mac was to save the world from this kind of nonsense. It's bad enough there are actually 454 pages *in* the manual ... you really want people to read all those pages, too? Once again, we're given a demonstration of why Microsoft is one of the worst things ever to have happened to the Macintosh. Of course people should just be able to paste into the "Find" dialog box. Why on earth should they have to use cryptic codes like "^c", which is absolutely meaningless (and heaven forbid they should actually want to search for the string "^c")? Nisus lets you paste the clipboard into the "Find/Replace" dialog. It's a natural and intuitive action that doesn't require that anyone spend hours searching through thick tomes of documentation. Please remember, folks: Word is Word. Word is not the Mac. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman