On 5/28/04 2:11 PM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spake R. Kirk McPike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 5/28/2004 2:39 PM: >> The first time I encountered this stupid key-command sequence, it deleted, >> without asking, a very, very long and important email message > > That's odd, because I just tried this. I had never used the Command-Delete > shortcut to delete a word, and wanted to see what would happen if I tried in > in Entourage, so I created a messaged, typed a little, and hit > Command-Delete. I was then ASKED "Are you sure you want to permanently > delete this message?" > > There is a checkbox labeled "Require confirmation when deleting" under > General Preferences > Notification (Entourage X). Perhaps this is turned off > on your system? This incident was a couple of years ago. If there's an error warning, chances are that I'd seen it one time before and dismissed it without thinking. However, at the point in question, Entourage killed an email message, without even the courtesy of placing it in the Deleted Items folder, simply because I used a keyboard command common to two other programs in the suite. All these keyboard commands should be unified across programs. Entourage isn't "special" from the user's point of view. If Word and PowerPoint, the other two programs that deal mostly with text communication, all use Cmd-Delete for "remove the previous word," so should Entourage. Consistency is king. In Excel, Cmd-Delete appears to do nothing, so it's harmless there. It's not harmless in Entourage. > You might try changing the Keyboard shortcut for "Delete Message" in > Entourage to something else, like Command-Option-Shift-D. I have been able > to add shortcuts to things like "Auto Text Cleanup > To lowercase" using the > new keyboard shortcuts feature in Panther feature. Look in System > Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. I'll check that out at home. But at work, we're on Jaguar, and will be here for as long as I will be. I can't imagine we'll update the OS on these machines until 2006 or so. Kirk -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
