It would appear that on Sep 13, Brian Barker did say:
> At 15:16 12/09/2009 -0400, Joe Philbrook wrote:
> >Pardon my intrusion, but as a devoutly keyboard oriented user who finds the
> >mouse difficult to use, I gotta ask if there is a keyboard method to do this?
>
> Now I'm intruding, but here's a start:
> o Press F11 to open the Styles and Formatting window.
> o Use Tab (or Shift+Tab) twice to move focus to the style type buttons.
> o Use the arrow keys to move to the required style type.
> o Press Enter to confirm your choice.
> o Press Tab again to move focus to the right-hand buttons.
> o Use the arrow keys to move to the New Style from Selection button.
> o Press down-arrow to drop down the menu.
> o Press Alt+N (or down-arrow and then Enter) to select New Style from
> Selection.
> o Type the new style name and press Enter to OK it.
>
> The easiest way to bring the Styles and Formatting window back into focus (as
> you will need to do) from the keyboard is probably to press F11 twice - to
> toggle it off and then on again.
Yeeash. It's actually easier to do than to explain...
But it's still a real pain.
Since the F11 key is there for a quick toggle anyway, it's to bad the
menu selection method doesn't offer a sub-menu: to preselect the style
etc... just before the pop-up opens...
Something like:
Format->stYles->[paragragh,character,frame,page,list,fill,new,update,load]
The same way that File->new->[text,spreadsheet,...]
{Of course, since the submenu would open vertically, the above choices
wouldn't actually have to be so abbreviated...}
Point and click people and developers tend to leave such things out of
things they think it's easier to use the mouse for. I mean, who actually
types their way through a menu to do things anyway??? (besides me!)
But I guess that's only to be expected when a function is designed with
mouse users in mind. But it stinks that keyboard users have make do with
tab navigation workarounds like the one you did such a good job of explaining.
THANKS!
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