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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
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Subject: Re: Word 5 Wishes
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Date: 16 Jan 91 16:17:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.132428.11242@engin.umich.edu> John_Mansfield@emal.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes:
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>How about some compliance with the standard human interface of the macintosh?

AMEN.  I work in a "public" computing lab here at Pitt.  The school offers 
"Intro to MS Word" classes, but they don't teach enough.  The burden of many
simple features is left to us.  I personally prefer MacWrite II for this
kind of environment.. it can do everything a college student has to do and more.

But enough preaching.  What I'd like to see is the demise of "Short Menus."
It's a neat idea... but most of a novice user's questions are answered by a 
change to full menus.  We could change the default... but on public machines
it'd soon get out of hand ("Why's my document printing with 3 inch margins?")
                                     :-) -but it WOULD happen!

You have to realize, our prefs files are nuked by temperament (which, by the 
way, can scare the heck out of a new user!... kaboom!).

Just my input...

Dennis Lippert- macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu

a person who believes that Excel is Microsoft's sole asset right now...
               (  NO FLAMES!!!!  )