xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia Ye) (05/12/89)
I just read a message from the manager for Word 4.0 in response to a user complaint about word. I am impressed that the message got an official response and also encouraged to throw in my two cents here. Recently, I just had a chance to take a look at WORD 4.0 release version. There are two points which I don't like about word. The first complaint is general and has to do with human interface. Scrolling: In word 4.0 page view mode , when I scroll to the end of the page, the page suddenly jumps to the beginning of next page (skipping header.. etc). I think that this is very annoying. When I am in pageview, I expect to see PAGES -which includes headers, footers and footnotes... etc, etc, not just the main body text (which is what the non-pageview is for anyway), having word jumping me around and making me to scroll back is really annoying. It's really easy to over-scroll, because although I usually do have the sense that the current page is about to end, by the time when I realize the next page starts, word has already jumped me and I have already overscrolled. I think that scrolling should be UNIFORM all the way through. The second complaint is specific to the use of Word 4.0 with DataDesk keyboard. I have been looking at an init that maps the datadesk keyboard (for Mac Plus) to the apple extended keyboard. The init fools every software into thinking that I have the extended keyboard. The confirmation for this that MacroMaker treats the F5 on the DataDesk keyboard just like F5 on Apple Extended keyboard, and Pageup pagedown etc, (although it maps the Hoem keys as Help key on Apple Extended, because they are in the same position). I also know that Word 4 is also fooled into thinking that it is an Apple Extended keyboard because pageUp and PageDown keys will scroll the text one screenful up and down respectively in Word ( a feature that is specifically for the people blessed with Extended keyboards). And when I am in the Command... dialog box assigning different keystrokes to functions in Word, Word displays them as F1..F15 properly as well. HOWEVER, when I tried to use the command "Show Function Keys..." - which will show the function keys equivalents for the menu items instead of Command Key equivalents (such as, F1 for Cut instead of command-x), Word just would not do it. Toggling the "Show Function Keys..." feature on and off just DOESN'T do a darn thing at all. Is this a bug or that Word recognizes it's a fake Apple Extended keyboard when it comes to showing function keys ???? But Datadesk still advertises that Word recommends the use of their keyboard !!! Please e-mail/post all the responses - whatever you know about these issues. Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________ Xiaoxia Ye INTERNET/BITNET/UUCP: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Dartmouth College For more info: finger xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu