"HK" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:31:56 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:


Fewer commands? You don't have to use commands that you don't need.
And,
does your version of Word have the "Hide less-used commands on menus"
feature? If you don't use them, you don't see them, at least the more
obscure commands.

Look, I've fat-fingered Word while writing a simple doc and suddenly
had a database, tables, pie chart, and hyperlinks communicating with
the space shuttle. That's when I'd give it to somebody else to
straighten it out and e-mail it back to me so I could send it out.

--Vic


That's a user problem, not a software problem. You should also avoid
using the mouse whenever possible. If you use only the menus, it's next
to impossible to screw things up unless you WANT to.

Why would you presume your experience with WORD to be the same as someone
else's who probably uses the program entirely differently, and for
different purposes? These big "office productivity" suites are complex,
and users interface with them differently.


Maybe I misunderstood what Vic said. My interpretation was that he wanted
just words on the page. He said "a simple doc". If all you want to do is
type some words, save the doc and maybe print it, those actions take you
nowhere near the menus for graphic features. They're all on the File menu. I
suppose a spastic mouse movement could cause you to hit toolbar buttons, but
that's one of many reasons why professional typists don't use the mouse for
the vast majority of work.