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From: moss@eosp1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Menus bad?
Message-ID: <164@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 17:42:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 17:42:35 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Aug-83 11:05:24 EDT
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Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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I have used both systems that have menus and ones that did not.  I
have found that a menu can be helpful when you are not familar with
the system.  I am in a development team working on word processors.
The product we have out now uses a system of  hierarchical soft-key
prompts.

When I first had software to test on the word processor I found the
soft key system easy to learn.  Now that I know the system very well
I curse every time I must access a display that is 3 level down.  I wish
there were a way to get to the display I need without hitting
all of the softkeys, and going through the other displays first.

The restricitions imposed could refer to the fact that some(many?)
systems do not allow you to overide the menus when you know what you
want to do.

--
Bill Moss
Exxon Office Systems(Princeton, N.J.)
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