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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: MS Word upgrade worth it?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:48:18 GMT
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- In article <1ijsllINN80k@shelley.u.washington.edu> qwa@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ned Bedinger) writes:
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- > So I may as well, since Microsoft has never seen
- > seen the utility of making mouse buttons config-
- > urable. I'd be happy if I could set drag-n-drop
- > to left+right buttons, and leave select functions
- > to the left button. Alas, the only mouse programming
- > capability provided under box-stock Windows is switch-
- > ing L <--> R button functionality.
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- They left this out so we could win flame wars with the Mac
- people 9-)
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- > It would behoove you to keep the topic in sight. MY point
- > was that the upgrade does not necessarily help with pro-
- > ductivity. I'm sure there are plenty of people who will
- > pay $129 dollars for anything in shrinkwrap and then spend
- > dozens of hours fwobbling through the manual and help screens,
- > just to figure out how to do things they used to know how to
- > do. It is going to take a lot of new toolbar functions to
- > make up for even one hour lost to studying the new interface.
-
- The stopping of crashes and seepage of memory alone make it worth-
- while.
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