On 29/5/04 5:02 am, "George Arellano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Entourage:mac Talk -- On 05/29/04 4:09 AM, Sherman Wilcox > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> Unfortunately, Word has set up the expectation that Command-Delete will >> delete the word to the left of the cursor. I do find it a tad dangerous that >> a recoverable command from Word is interpreted by Entourage to perform an >> unrecoverable deletion of the message that I'm composing. It doesn't even >> warn me, or put it into the Deleted Items folder, it's just gone for good. > > I agree -- it has also happened to me a couple of times, one of which was a > major business presentation that took about two hours to compose, and then > was gone in an instant after forgetfully pressing Command-Delete. Since > changing the command is, apparently, difficult and/or costly (per previous > comments from the Mac Team here), how about just moving the message to the > trash in such instances, thereby providing the user a chance to recover it > if the deletion was accidental? That would be a fairly easy solution to the > problem, wouldn't it?? > Cheers, > George Arellano The whole point of the cmd-delete function is that it is different to the plain delete function - it's purpose is to completely delete any selected mail, bypassing the normal warnings that would be displayed. The only problem lies with the fact that you have to get used to different key-combinations in different apps. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
