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From: mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu (Lawrence J. Mazlack)
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Subject: Re: Friendly user interface?
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Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 16:42:57 EDT
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>Yes and no. If more developers read the bible: the chapter on user
>interface guidlines in Inside Mac then they would know that all commands
>should have either menu items or labelled places to click on the screen.
>Sure, expert users want the command keys, But please, developers, include
>a glossary and in so far as is possible, put the commands in the menu
>bar!

The nice thing about using the option stuff is that you can do things a lot
quicker. The stuff that I use most in Word is font changes, underlining, bolds,
italics, etc.  If you change these a lot, going to the menu a lot is pretty
time consuming - for example to make a single term bold italic and then
back to normal takes two menu accesses to do it and two to undo - and if
you change fonts, even longer.

However, I will agree that everything doable by option sequences should also
be doable by menu - and Word does sin in this respect.

Larry Mazlack
mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu