Universal to every gui wordprocessor: A "File" menu with "Open", "Save" and "Save As" An "Edit" menu with "Copy ^C", "Cut ^X", "Paste ^V" A tool bar with: " [font-name] [12] [B] [U] [I] " The tool bar will also have a picture of a disk and a picture of a printer.
Beyond this there will be differences - some will have page set-up under the "File" menu, others have it under the "Format" menu. I realise that not _All_ word processors are like the above, but enough are to make it a generalisation. A neutral typing textbook would point this out, and people who learn this way would not be frightened of working on a different application, because they will be confident of the similarities. Yuri On Thu, 02 May 2002, you wrote: > To quote the poet - "Bugger all" > > I work in a school, and the typing is done in MS Word 97. It will stay > as MS Word 97 till the machinery catches fire and dies... because of > the investment in teacher training, textbooks, and user-experiences. > > Have you ever seen a platform or version or program neutral typing > textbook? If you did it would go like this... "Welcome to > YourTypingProgram... you can probably hit keys in order to make words, > but after that it varies based on what software you have." [snip] > > So how many teachers out there are teaching kids > > non-OS-specific computer skills? > > Out of curiosity, are any such teachers subscribed > > to this list?
