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From: c60c-2ia@web-2a.berkeley.edu (Wei-Lun THE MAN)
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Subject: Re: Damn WordPerfect and HELP !!!
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In article #9969, fisher@sc2a.unige.ch wrote:

>> [...]  As a matter of fact I've delevoped a philosphy
>> over the past couple of years: Screw the function keys, if the thing won't let

>> me use a mouse then I don't use the program.  Let's see: F1 on WP does X.  F1
on
>> WORD does Y.  F1 on Lotus does Z.  F1 on WORKVIEW does A.  F1 on dBASE III doe
s
>> B.  Get the point?  Even if it takes longer, I've become accustomed to learnin
g
>> the pull down menu approach to seek the commands I want.  I almost always know

>> the NAME of the command I want, I just can't keep the keys straight.  Looking
>> with the mouse is much more productive for me.  No I don't own a MAC but I do
>> know enought about it to do some things (like get myself in trouble).

>I've also developed a philosophy in the last few years: learn the function
>keys!  Using WP, Alt-F10 is `call macro' (equivalent to {Menu}-Tools-mAcro-
>eXecute, *not* T-M-E), in MS-Word, it's `record style' (equivalent to [ESC]-
>Format-Style-Record).  Usually, I look at the screen, not at the keyboard :-)
>using the menu, you see several drastic changes on it while you type,
>resulting in eye-fatigue;  using the function key, you see only one screen
>update.  This is a *very* serious issue for me!

Besides the extra strain on your eyes, those of you who use old (and thus slow)
PC/XT's (like I do on my job) should know that it takes ages to update the
screen when you use the stupid pull-down menus.  With function keys, it's just
one screen update, fast, easy, and pleasant.  Besides, even if it takes your
Compaq Deskpro 33Mhz 386 no time at all to update the screen when using pull
-down menus, it still take much more time to make a simple selection!

Come on guys, after you use it for enough times, the function keys will be just
as intuitive as up-shift/down-shift when driving a stick shift!