>> Of course, cmd-shift-. is essentially cmd->
>>
>> And cmd-shift-, is essentially cmd-<
>>
>> Just in case that makes things a little clearer...
>
> Not really.
Well, my version of clearer was solely focused on why those key combinations
are used for larger and smaller in many applications.
> I still find it odd that Entourage uses secret, undocumented
> shortcuts and ignores its own documented ones for doing the same thing.
Because the same people who write the documentation don't write the code,
because the people who write the code don't review the documentation either
at all or until much, much later (by which time they've forgotten about the
extra functionality), and because documentation people don't have the luxury
of fully exploring what they're frantically documenting.
At least that's the way I've always found things worked on large, complex
projects with large teams.
> i take someone's (Chris's?) point that the shortcuts he found (as above) are
> for composing text rather than reading it, but so what? Shouldn't it be
> documented somewhere?
Should is such an interesting word.
Back when I was active in the community service arena and doing lots of
crisis intervention assistance, I worked really hard to get people to
eliminate the word "should" from their vocabularies.
> In the Help are about 50 shortcuts for editing text, depending on whether you
> choose "Microsoft Office style text editing" or "Macintosh style text
> editing". If it's a Word/Office shortcut I think it should be in the
> "Microsoft Office style text editing" section. But it would still have been
> better, IMO, to use the same keys as for making text larger and smaller when
> as reading text. Maybe they should have taken the Word shortcuts for reading,
> too, to be consistent Office-wide. But I don't think it's smart to be
> inconsistent within Entourage, nor to have it undocumented. It's certainly
> odd, although I'm glad the function exists. I've always just used the popup
> window settings for text size.
It would be better if the functionality were documented. Or at least
discoverable by some means other than happening to have tried that keyboard
combination while in the correct mode.
But realistically speaking, I'd give you about 10 to 1 odds that there's not
a single person at Microsoft who knows *all* of the keyboard commands that
are supported in all of the various modes of Entourage.
mikel
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