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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
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Subject: Re: Atari Wordprocessors Continued
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Date: 24 Oct 90 21:17:16 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.125436.13810@cs.dal.ca> bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca writes:
>In article <9803@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>>
>>Oh, do get serious.  Alt-= to bring up the menu?  What mental giant came
>>up with the idea of having a keyboard command to bring up drop-down
>>menus?
>
>It's totally optional.  Normally the menu is present.  The ALT key is
>used only if for some reason you don't want the menu most of the time
>but want to invoke it occasionally.  

If what you say is true, it's a feature in the newer releases of WP 5.1.
The versions I used (about 6 months ago) did not start up with the mouse
menus.  In light of this new information, I stand corrected.  It _does_
look really ugly, though, unless they've changed that, too.

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