Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote in news:301220071420415969%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com:
> In article <Xns9A15A7C924A61thanexit@66.250.146.158>, > thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote:
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>> > Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of >> > those. >> >> Wow, you must be a good typist! I have used 'change case' >> at least once every third session! > > I don't know about "good typist". I tend to be a "careful > typist" and correct mistakes as I see them (even though I > cannot touch-type). For example, if I'm typing and see that > I've typed "United STates", then I would backpsace and > correct the T and retype the rest (or if I spot it a bit > later I would use the cursor keys or mouse to correct it > and go back to where I was typing.
I tend to do that as well although of course a decent spell checker will catch it all later and save me the work... But all the whippings I got when I was a kid...
> If a heading needs to be > changed into all uppercase, then I just re-type it since > it's only short. It doesn't matter if I'm using PageMaker, > Word or whatever, I just find it quicker to work that way. > Very occasionally I might use the button in PageMaker's > Formatting Palette (if it's displayed).
I think PM's text "editor" is better than most notepad-like things, when I worked and HAD to have MS Word installed (or else!) I still did almost everything in PM's editor!
But now I use Metapad LITE (no insert key nightmares!) to type all text. (And VERY nice upper/lower case options.)
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> Different people will find different plug-ins and scripts > useful. Personally I've never found any use for scripts or > forgotten that they're even there - I tend to have as few > palettes / toolbars open as possibly, which usually means > just the normal tool bar and sometimes the Color / Styles > and Formatting ones.
Totally agreed.
>> You /probably/ knew this, although you seem to be confused >> as whether it's a palette or a pallet or a pallette or >> just palatable (sorry, I can't help myself when it comes >> to stuff like this). > > Limited online time means I tend to be less careful on > newsgroups and web forums. Mind you, Adobe spells things > like "color" incorrectly all the way through the menus, > etc. ;o)
/How/ do they spell color? "ColoUr" or something else? Anyway, Adobe are jerks and you are not :-)
