Matthew Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) recycled some electrons by writing:
> I thought this was meant to be standard Mac behaviour.
It's not standard Mac behaviour. Or if it is, no other application that I
have implements it, including all of Apple's software.
> The idea is that if you double click to select a word and then delete it,
> there should only be one space left. Why would you want two spaces?
In every other application I have, I don't get this behaviour. So after I
double-click a word and hit delete, if I don't want two spaces, I hit delete
again. For the first couple of days after I started using Entourage, I was
still hitting delete twice after selecting a word, and so most of my emails
had wordsjoinedtogether. I'm not saying that this behaviour doesn't make
sense, it is just unintuitive from a long-time Mac user's perspective. If it
was standard Mac behaviour, I would have become accustomed to it over the 10
years that I've been using Macs. But it's not, and I haven't. More often
than not, when I'm double-clicking on a word to select it, I have the
intention of not hitting delete, but of just typing over the word. So
Entourage is actually making me do more work, because I now have to remember
to hit the space bar after typing in the new word.
> This has worked this way in Microsoft Word since I can remember.
You're suggesting that because it's in MS Word, it standard behaviour??!?!
;-)
Stewart
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