On 5/29/04 2:45 AM, "R. Kirk McPike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, I'm listening to one person complain and 5,999,999 people accept it the >> way it is. > > Since the person you had replied to was not me, Well, as the original poster of this issue, I just want to say that it was not my intention to complain. I only wanted to know if there was a 'delete previous word function' in Entourage. As a writer who uses Entourage and Word (and another word processor, Mellel) for about 95% of my computer use, I find having this function very useful. So I was looking for it in Entourage. Tried option-delete (I think this is the more common, perhaps more 'correct' shortcut for this function), didn't work. Tried command-left arrow for moving to the left by one word, and sure enough that worked. Tried command-delete while COMPOSING a message, and the entire message went away (yes, I have warnings turned off). So, David has said the MacBU will explore adding this function. Thanks! It may not be something your typical tester will note the absence of, I guess, but writers will thank you if it is added. I still hold to the view that the completely unrecoverable deletion of a message that you're composing is a tad dangerous. It's true that command-delete moves a message to the Deleted Items folder when it's selected in the message list. So my prediction when I tried command-delete was that if it didn't do what I wanted and delete the previous word, it would DO THE SAME THING as I had already seen it do: move the message to the Deleted Items folder. This would be consistent, and so it was a prediction that Entourage invited me to make. Surprise! It was wrong. It just still seems inconsistent to me: it's inconsistent across apps in the Office suite (which I guess is a red herring), but it's also inconsistent across functions WITHIN Entourage itself. One function is to MOVE a selected message in a list to another folder, and this is recoverable. The other function is to DELETE a message that you're composing, and this is not recoverable. I find it conceptually odd that that when I'm composing a message, command-delete does not delete something selected in the text, but it deletes the message that I'm composing (which of course is not 'selected' in any normal sense). Look at it from the perspective of 'acting on something that I have selected': (1) select a message in a list, and type Command-Delete. The object selected and highlighted, the message, is MOVED to the Deleted Items folder (I know the Edit menu calls this "Delete Message" but of course it doesn't actually delete it, it simply moves it to another place); (2) Select a word in a message that you're composing and type Command-Delete. The object selected and highlighted, the word, is not deleted; instead, Entourage deletes the message that contains this object. Just think about it, that's all I ask. ;-) -- Sherman -- 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/>
