9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jamie Sonsini) (04/07/91)
In article <7930@idunno.Princeton.EDU> miyazaki@diana.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Takeshi Miyazaki) writes: >It may sound strange, or it is just a feature and I'm a idiot.... >I have encountered it two times. >When I mistyped something like option-command-numerical keys, Excel2.2 >(not 2.2A) displays MS Windows like menu bar and then stoped. >Today I saw, > Edit Formula Format Data Option Macro Window > - - - - - - - >Last time I saw > Find > - >When I typed somthing then it disappeared, and I can't reconstruct the >situation. >Is it a feature and well described in the manual? ( I only use Excel >on the campus network and no access to the documents ) >Or something else? >Takeshi Miyazaki >miyazaki@ee.princeton.edu At MacWorld in San Francisco last February, I was speaking with the MicroSoft folks about some shortcuts in Excel for things I do frequently (like changing the format of a column of decimal numbers to integers). The MS guy told about this feature - as he described it - it's an effort to make folks who would prefer typing to moving a mouse more comfortable. To invoke this feature you enter a "/" character (this is the default, but can be changed). It then activates this mode and lets you enter a series of key strokes (each selecting what you'd like done) until some command is executed. (for example: the sequence /, d,s will put one on the proper screen to sort a selection). Jamie Sonsini UC Santa Barbara Since I've learned about this, I do use it all the time. Very handy for doing lots of things that are more bother with the mouse.