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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Wordprocessors Continued
Summary: WP menus
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.142100.1046@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 25 Oct 90 14:21:00 GMT
References: <9803@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Oct24.125436.13810@cs.dal.ca> <9860@milton.u.washington.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <9860@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>>
>>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.

You have to select the menus in setup.  Shift-F1,2,4,8 is the sequence
to leave the menu bar visible.  You can also change the appearance of
the menu.

I suggest that further queries about WP 5.1 go to a PC group.


-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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