Brian, I'm so glad to see you teach your clients to use the menus,
rather than just teaching the short cut keys to get around. An
unfortunate friend of mine was only taught short cut keys. In my humble
opinion that limits the possibilities/options one encounters when
exploring the menus, rather than just being exposed to the very specific
actions of shortcut keys. Continual use of an application eventually
and naturally does result in the memorization of shortcut keys anyway.
I pretty much have taught myself how to use the PC, listening to, and
reading anything I can get my hands on, as long as it isn't too
technical for my understanding.
On 12/31/2015 12:12 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Kevin,
Thanks for your input. I just want to hasten to add that my
motivation for "forcing" the occasional use of the mouse buttons is not,
in any way, because I think that any given method is the "right" one,
but sometimes there really is a "best" one.
A number of my clients have expressed utter amazement when I
teach them about the presence of the context menu that pops up anywhere
(pretty much) when you right click on anything that can be operated on
in some way and that this menu restricts you to the actual things you
can do to that actual object. It saves so much menu arrow-through time
(and I'm amazed how many of my clients cling to using arrow-through even
after they know the "you can type the first letter of the function
you're searching for to speed your way down the menu" technique). It
also avoids, almost entirely, the presence of stippled-out options that
cannot be selected at the moment because they do not fit the actual
context of the moment, but must be in a general-purpose full menu anyway.
All of the above having been said, if anyone detects what they
feel is even the slightest whiff of condescension or trying to "force
blind people to do something the sighted way" in my posts or
descriptions of how I tutor, please let me know about this directly, but
kindly. That is absolutely never my intention, but unintentional
paternalism, rudeness, or slights are as bad or worse than intentional
ones. Just realize that any of these are occurring out of ignorance,
not malice.
Brian
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