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From: russ@oakhill.UUCP (Russell Schwausch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word Question
Message-ID: <1001@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 11:07:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.1001
Posted: Fri Sep 25 11:07:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 01:18:19 EDT
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In article <446@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>I have a question concerning Microsoft Word 3.01. I was using it
>yesterday and double clicked in the lower left corner window.
>Normally doing this gives the prompt "CODE" and then you enter
>your desired character code and that character is inserted at the
>current cursor position. This time, however, I got the prompt "FONT"
>and could enter a font name, the same as using command-shift-E. I
>tried this several times and it always prompted for a font. I thought
>it must be a change in 3.01m but today when I tried it, I get "CODE"
>again, and cannot get "FONT" no matter what I try. What did I do
>yesterday that I'm not doing today?
>

The double-click gets you whatever you did last.
If you did a command-shift-E, double-click gets you FONT.
If you did a command-option-Q, double-click gets you CODE.
I didn't find this in the manual, I experimented.
I don't know what other keyboard commands work this way.
If someone has a complete list, please post it or tell us where it is in the
manual.

I would like to see a section in Macintosh Application manuals that
summarizes all the places you can click the mouse and the resulting actions.
I don't expect this for a game like Shadowgate where the trick is to read the
creator's mind and figure out what operations are supported on each screen.
But for business applications I would rather not have to use trial and error
and error and error and ...

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