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Re: Equivalent navigation shortcuts for Windows as Mac?



Check out Shlomo Perets page at http://www.netvision.net.il/php/mtype. He
has all types of FrameMaker help in PDF there. The Windows shortcuts lists
just about every possible shortcut.

-----Original Message-----
From: Snavely, Deborah <dsnavely@visa.com>
To: 'framers@omsys.com' <framers@omsys.com>
Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 2:25 PM
Subject: Equivalent navigation shortcuts for Windows as Mac?


>Folks,
>
>I was appalled to discover last week that FrameMaker 5.5.3/Windows95 has
>only about one of 8 of the cursor-key shortcuts that I use routinely to
>navigate Frame files quickly. On the Mac, command + left & right arrow
moves
>you a word at a time, and on Windows the same. But though command + up or
>down arrow moves me a paragraph at a time in Mac/Frame, the control
>equivalent goes nowhere in Windows. Page Up/Down keys don't work (yeah, I'm
>sure the PgUp/PgDn keys on the number keypad work, but that slows down
>quick-entry for numbers). On the Mac, command+PageUp/Down takes me to the
>top or bottom of the entire file...doesn't work. I'm probably being dense,
>but without the keyboard shortcuts for this platform (and I'm using a
>corporate shared license with no print doc), I'm hobbled at every other
>action.
>
>Hints cheerfully accepted. (Yeah, I probably should've learned the
>multi-platform UNIX escape-key sequences, but they're so long-winded!
>Shorter to pick up the mouse.)
>
>And if anyone from Adobe is watching, I darned well EXPECT to be able to
>navigate by shortcuts better on this mouse-phobic platform than I can on a
>Mac. It was one of my few gripes about Mac in middle 1980s, that apps only
>provided shortcuts for about 40% of their common commands. Now I see the
>8-year delay in this platform.
>
>Deborah Snavely
>Senior Technical Writer
>consulting at Visa
>standard disclaimers apply
>
>(Me, I'm in this for the Frame info and professional community. Community
of
>any sort has its glitches, and the framers universe has hit the biggest
I've
>seen in 4 years. Compared to the average list, though, framers has a lower
>glitch-war count than most, even allowing for the recent rhetoric.  --D)
>
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