3 May
2009
3 May
'09
6:53 p.m.
Warren Wolfe wrote:
Typists do NOT need to look up, find the cursor, grab
the mouse, move
the cursor over the text, highlight it, then go up and mouse around in
a series of menus.... thus wasting time.
I can't think of a single, modern
word-processor that _requires_ the
user to do the above for common actions. Word, Open Office, "Pages"
from Apple have numerous shortcut keys (some, perhaps,
have _too_
many...) that make using the mouse/menus unnecessary -- but that option
is still there for the user who a) is new to the software or b) hasn't
yet learned what the keyboard shortcut for "insert table at cursor after
frobbing" is. (Or perhaps more importantly -- that the "insert table at
cursor after frobbing" option even exists -- having a well-designed UI
makes features more discoverable.)
At the risk of making this topic even MORE off topic than it already is,
I'm curious what specific software you feel falls into the bucket of
"hard to use but easy to learn."
(Incidentally, where I used to work I knew several touch-typists who
swore by WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Evidently they didn't find it
"clumsy" at all. Then again, I found it an incredible pain to use...)
Josh