Mike, I did see the original post, but did not respond to it since the topic is such a general one. I realize that there are more ways to make a window the active one, but in this case I was just explaining to her that there is indeed a reason that one would click on a screen area with "nothing".
It is my belief that Alt-Tab is only a meaningful alternative for people who have no more than 2 or 3 windows open. Since I generally have at least 10 or 12 open windows, I'd never even consider cycling through them all. I need direct access to each specific windows I realize that I can also get this by using the task bar, but in the specific case of Legacy and a browser window, that involves more out-of-the-way mousing than using a visible part of the Legacy window. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Christie Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 09:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] The one thing that does drive me nuts about Legacy Bob Janetzko wrote: > One clicks on background areas of the screen > in order to make that program the active window and bring it to the front. I think this was already mentioned, but I'll reiterate it because it's an incredibly useful keyboard shortcut: pressing Alt-Tab will allow you to cycle to other programs in the same way, and in addition to being faster will also let you bring programs you can't even see to the front of the screen. Alt-Shift-Tab will do the same thing, but cycles through the programs in the reverse order -- that is, it jumps to the one at the back of the screen first. I know this isn't a fix for the hotspot issue, but it does reduce the likelihood of running into the problem. For those of you that use Excel, by the way, Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab do the same thing for Excel windows. (There are some other programs that follow this rule too.) Mike -- Athens Group Experience. Technology. Results. ----------------------------------------------- Mike Christie Athens Group Inc. 4201 Southwest Freeway, Suite 220 Houston, TX 77027 Voice: 713.960.5094, ext. 112 Cell: 713.504.6455 Fax: 713.960.5061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.athensgroup.com Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
