I found this in the QuicKeys February newsletter .... --- 8< ----------------------------------------------------------------
======================================================================= =- COOL CUSTOMER ======================================================================= How are users tapping QuicKeys' potential? The Cool Customer for this issue is Lew Buckley. Lew talks about using QuicKeys to streamline his workflow in Finale 2005, a pro-level print music creator/editor: "I publish printed music on a Macintosh using MakeMusic Inc.'s Finale 2005. As a full-fledged professional level print music creator/editor, Finale is a complex program with many functions buried two or three levels deep in submenus. It also has a total of some 25 different tools I have to select for different uses, and there are many functions, such as transposing a selected passage up or down by any of 12 different intervals, that are multi-step procedures involving my two least favorite activities: mousing and menus. To take the hassle out of all that, I have some 200 QuicKeys Shortcuts set up just for use in Finale alone. For me, QuicKeys is far more than a convenience, it is part of the Finale application. I've forgotten where many of Finale's functions are located, because the shortcuts made possible by QuicKeys have long since taken the place of burrowing among the submenus. And that doesn't even address the more than 100 Shortcuts I use in all my other applications. I hate reaching for the mouse; I much prefer keeping my hands on the keyboard. QuicKeys allows me to work the way I want to. I can honestly say that QuicKeys cuts down significantly the time I "waste" doing repetitive, multistep chores, allowing me to be more productive in the time I spend at my computer. The few minutes it takes to set up and test a multistep Shortcut is returned many times through the use of that Shortcut in my daily work. QuicKeys is my "desert island" utility; if I were stranded with only one utility, QuicKeys would be it, because I use it more routinely than any other utility I own. Thanks for continuing to upgrade and improve it!" --- 8< ---------------------------------------------------------------- ... they're also reporting that QuicKeys X3.01 will be out in "Early February". -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art ------------------------- Finale IRC channel server: irc.chatspike.net port: 6667 channel: #Finale ------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
