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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.94.214.100!shemesh.hq.tis.com!troma.rv.tis.com!not-for-mail From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 3 Mar 1997 17:03:23 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5ffhrb$l00@troma.rv.tis.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: troma.rv.tis.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162541 comp.os.linux.networking:70745 comp.os.linux.setup:100769 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6185 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2703 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55526 comp.os.os2.advocacy:271400 In article <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu>, Robb Shecter <rshecter@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> wrote: > >Emacs, vi & kin are asking us to do the equivalent of memorizing everything >we've ever learned, word for word. Just like emacs and vi require you to learn how to use them, so do all those other "easy" and "intuitive" programs. I find that Microsoft Word is very difficult to use. For example, notice that the page numbers on the table of contents are frequently wrong after you edit a document. Well, the first problem is that it is supposed to be automatic, and yet the table of contents is wrong. Ok - there must be a command to fix it, so I look in the menu named "Table", thinking there must be "Table of Contents", right? Well, it is really under "Insert". b.t.w. I found that if you use "Insert, Table of Contents" it will update the TOC, wherever it is, if it is there already -- it does not insert another one, so you don't have to move the cursor back to where you want it to be. So here is a supposedly simple and easy-to-use feature, but I found *3* non-intuitive aspects to it. Once I learn how it behaves, I can memorize that and refer to that knowledge later -- just like you have to do with emacs! :) So really, it is all the same -- it's just what you know and what you are familiar with. Mark S. "It took our staff a couple days to get used to the intuitive look and feel of Microsoft Windows..."