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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 28 06:46:10 -0800 2006 ------- Well, you didn't answer my question: When Impress shows both objects selected (but is actually editing the last selected object), what am I supposed to do with the selection? Even if I am not allowed to press SHFT, why does it respond in thjis strange way? If a user makes a mistake, the application must help him recover; and not respond with strange results. *** To answer your question, I have already said that when I press SHFT and then click on multiple objects, my only intention is to select them all. I do NOT want to edit text at the time. You are suggesting that I should change the mode (through menu). But it would be too tedious to keep switching modes that way. It would be far easier to override the mode by pressing SHFT, select the objects, cut/copy them, and then go back to text-editing. All that, without any mode-changing! So I expect SHFT to temporarily override the text-edit mode and switch Impress to "Object-selection" mode. And that's what PowerPoint does. Smart, as I said. It is a very common practice to press a modifier key to change the application's behavior temporarily. SHFT and CTRL are very commonly used. Suppose we want to type "R". Which of the following method is easier? (a)Press SHFT+r (b)Press "Caps Lock" key, Press "r" key and then Press "Caps Lock" key again. If you feel that method (b) is more natural, I won't argue any more. Thanks.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
